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News from Matanuska  Electric Association

        Recount Affirms MEA�s Official Election Results

        After a recount May 5, MEA�s Election Committee decided to stand
by the original results of the 1998 co-op election on April 30.
Certified by the Board of Directors Monday night, election results gave
three-year terms to Craig Campbell, Rod Cottle and Rose Marie "Tiny"
DePriest. 

        The Board decided Monday night to honor Doug Mills� written
request for a recount, absorbing the $750 cost. DePriest defeated Mills
by 22 votes, 3,451 to 3,429. A second machine count of the ballots
awarded a total of seven additional votes to three candidates but did
not change the outcome. Both the original count and recount were
conducted by Chuck Griffin, CPA and overseen by the Election Committee.

        According to official returns, Campbell received 4,890 votes, or
22.6 percent, and Cottle garnered 3,605 votes, or 16.6 percent. Both are
incumbents. DePriest, co-owner of the Tiny Moose Farm in Palmer, edged
out Mills by 22 votes. DePriest received 3,451 votes, or 15.9 percent,
to Mills� 3,429, or 15.8 percent.

        Other candidates receiving votes were Leo von Scheben with
2,915, or 13.5 percent; Robert A. Doyle with 1,920, or 8.9 percent;
William A. Seitz with 785, or 3.6 percent; and Thomas G. Staudenmaier,
with 667, or 3.1 percent.

        On Monday night, the board elected "Tamie" Miller as president,
James "Jim" Hermon as vice president and William "Bill" Folsom as
secretary-treasurer to one-year terms. Miller is from Wasilla, Hermon
and Folsom are from Palmer.

        Alaska�s oldest electrical cooperative, Matanuska Electric
Association serves more than 34,300 customers in the Mat-Su Valley and
Chugiak-Eagle River area.

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SOURCE: May 7, 1998 News from Matanuska Electric Association with
offices in Palmer, Wasilla and Eagle River, Alaska * For Further
Information, Contact MEA Director of Member and Public Relations Bruce
D. Scott, CREC; Direct Line at work: (907) 745-9215
Email: take out "-spamno" from the address; Web site:
http://www.Matanuska.com