CELEBRATING 75 YEARS
75
years ago, 242 families in the
Matanuska Valley petitioned the
newly-created Rural Electrification
Administration (REA) for help in creating an electric
cooperative and bringing power to their homes and
farms.
On March 1, 1941, Matanuska Electric Association
was incorporated and on January 20, 1942, MEA
delivered power to the first member.
Within the first year, only about half of the total 242
members had power, but they continued to buy
into the cooperative, waiting for the infrastructure
to reach their homes.
Southcentral Alaska’s population quickly grew
from 59,278 people in 1930 to 225,886 by 1943,
due in large part to World War II efforts in the
Pacific. As requests for electrical services grew,
so did MEA’s service territory. By 1950, MEA was
providing power to Chugiak, Sutton and Jonesville,
adding Birchwood in 1952. MEA continued
expanding, moving north to Talkeetna in 1963 and
Big Lake in 1965.
*Note: Some pictures that appear in this publication
are historic and may not meet today’s safety
standards.
Fast forward to today, and MEA is now generating
our own electricity, powering our members’ homes
and businesses with the Eklutna Generation Station
(EGS) power plant. We serve nearly 50,000
members through more than 4,200 miles of power
lines in the Mat-Su and Eagle River/Chugiak areas.
With a service area roughly the size of West
Virginia, MEA is the oldest existing and second
largest electric utility in the state.
We recognize that much has changed in the past
75 years for both MEA and all of our members,
new and old. It’s our goal to serve our membership
with a value on service, reliability and trust. It’s
important to us that we continue to be a strong part
of the communities we serve.
MEA is here to light up your lives and our
communities. From our family to yours, thank you
for a memorable first 75 years and here’s to the
next 75.
Sincerely,
Your Matanuska Electric Association
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
75
years. That’s a long time. I can speak first-hand
to the changes that have happened in that
time…television, microwaves, cell phones,
the internet just to name a few. Alaska has seen changes
too - from statehood to the pipeline and permanent fund
to the development of Eagle River and the valley from a
small group of colonists and pioneers to one of the fastest
growing areas of the country.
Through it all, Matanuska Electric Association has been
there, supporting each of you and the growth of this
community. We’ve been a catalyst for development and an
enabler of the self-reliance and quality of life we Alaskans
expect.
Elsie E. “Lois” Lester
DIRECTOR AT-LARGE
2015 was a year of both growth and reflection for MEA. We
leapt from a distribution-only cooperative to a fully vertically
integrated utility - producing, selling and distributing
our own power. This was a major transition for the
cooperative and I could not be more proud of the tenacity,
teamwork and collaboration that made it happen without a
hitch.
President
After 16 years of service, this is my last year on the MEA
Board. When I reflect back on the progress over those
years, I can tell you there were bumps and hard times,
but we persevered for the good of our members. I am
gratified to have been a part of such an amazing team of
Board members and employees who were ready to serve,
improve and grow. I am honored to have represented each
of you over those years and even more proud that I will
still count myself a member of this great cooperative in the
years ahead.
President
Elsie E. “Lois” Lester
Peter Burchell
DIRECTOR AT-LARGE
Bob Doyle
SUSITNA DISTRICT
David Glines
EAGLE RIVER DISTRICT
Secretary-Treasurer
Kit Jones
DIRECTOR AT-LARGE
Janet Kincaid
DIRECTOR AT-LARGE
Vice President
Marvin Yoder
MATANUSKA DISTRICT
EXECUTIVE TEAM
It is an honor to serve as MEA’s newest General Manager. To be unanimously approved by the MEA Board of Directors is
humbling, however, you don’t just replace steel-toed boots like Joe Griffith’s overnight and my goal is to build on the many
successes that started under his watch. I am fortunate to have a strong executive team with a combination of nearly 100
years in their respective fields helping me lead the way.
Guiding a group of 191 dedicated employees who come to work everyday with an eye on safety and a goal of making sure
this community’s pulse of electricity keeps moving gives me a great sense of pride and responsibility. Providing an essential
service for my family, friends and neighbors at a low price is a necessity - it is something the MEA team thinks about every
day.
GENERAL MANAGER
Tony Izzo
General Manager
Tony Izzo
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
Dawn Baham
DIRECTOR OF
ENGINEERING
Gary Kuhn
IN-HOUSE COUNSEL
David Pease
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC
RELATIONS
CHIEF INFORMATION
OFFICER
DIRECTOR OF HUMAN
RESOURCES
Julie Estey
Stan Halfacre
Heidi Kelley
CHIEF FINANCIAL
OFFICER
DIRECTOR OF
OPERATIONS
DIRECTOR OF POWER
SUPPLY
Matt Reisterer
Eddie Taunton
Tony Zellers
Previous MEA office building being constructed.
It was a huge investment of optimism when the Matanuska Valley
Farmer’s Cooperative Association (MVFCA) set out to form a
separate electric cooperative in 1939.
Incorporated March 1, 1941, as a member-owned cooperative,
Matanuska Electric Association (MEA) has powered the Valley since
electricity flowed to its first 150 customers across 93 miles of line
January 20, 1942.
Early 1000’s - Earliest known
account of Dena’ina and Ahtna
Athabascan people in the Matanuska and Susitna Valley region.
1870s - Incandescent
light bulb invented.
March 30, 1867 - Russia and the
U.S. sign the Treaty of Cession,
transferring Russia’s interests in
Alaska to the U.S. for $7.2 million.
Since then, Alaska’s oldest existing member-owned cooperative
has grown to serve more than 4,200 miles of power lines across
mountains and spanning rivers, serving MEA’s more than 50,000
members.
It is with great pride we share OUR story, because we are all MEA.
1905 - Orville G. Herning builds the
Knik Trading Company in Knik.
1882 - First commercial electric
plant in the U.S. began operation
in Appleton, Wisconsin, selling
electric power to some of the
city’s wealthiest families.
1912 - Congress passes a bill to
create the Territory of Alaska,
form a Legislature and authorizing
the President William H. Taft to
establish a route for the railroad.
1910 - U.S. government completes
a year-round trail from Seward to
Nome for use by dog sled teams.
1914 - John Bugge homesteads
320 acres near the intersect of
the Palmer-Wasilla and Glenn
highways.
1914 - President Woodrow Wilson
establishes Alaska Engineering
Commission to open up the area
known as the Matanuska Valley for
agriculture.
‘A huge investment of optimism’
Electricity was a practical consideration when members of the MVFCA began
forming an electric co-op in 1939, and later the Matanuska Valley Federal Credit
Union and Matanuska Telephone Association to provide banking and phone
service in the Valley.
Homegrown historian Jim Fox — grandson of Colonists Henning and Irene
Benson — said although federal Colony planners included a power plant in
Palmer to provide electricity to the hospital, garage, creamery, hatchery, trading
post, school and other buildings, there was no plan to extend service to farms.
Electricity was a critical factor in the Valley’s fledgling dairies’ ability to keep
milk cool and fresh for market, which was a challenge from the on-set in Colony
barns designed with wooden floors and no running water, or electricity, to aid in
sanitation.
Work on the Echo Lake line (1965).
E.F. Clements of the Territorial Department of Health and Sanitation brought the
problem to the forefront when he put milk producers on notice in April 1939 that
all dairies would soon be required to have a permit from the health department to
sell milk.
“Electricity had a huge impact on the farmers who stayed, and how it allowed
them to stay,” he said. “The people who formed the electrical co-op created
something that ensured the success of the Colony and made for a real livelihood
for the Colonists.”
Building out the new electric co-op’s lines also added new jobs to the Valley at a
time when wage-an-hour work was scarce, Fox said.
“Valley residents who formed the electrical co-op had a vision for what having an
electrical grid base could mean for encouraging development,” he said. “It was a
huge investment of optimism.”
MEA purchases Talkeetna Light and Power from Myron and
Lynn Stevens (1963) Photo by Dale L. Wahlen.
‘Cheapest hired man I ever had’
The Linn family was among those first 127 customers when MEA began
distributing electricity January 20, 1942.
Allan Linn, 86, still remembers his excitement as the poles approached their farm.
The first transmission line came up from Anchorage businessman Frank I. Reed’s
hydropower plant at Eklutna and ran along the west edge of the Alaska Railroad
line to Matanuska where it split, running east and north to Palmer and west to
Wasilla, he said. Reed constructed the plant in 1929 to serve Anchorage.
Electricity changed life in many ways — from safer lighting and electric wells that
facilitated indoor plumbing, fire protection, watering livestock and crop irrigation,
to refrigerators, freezers, cream separators and incubators for poultry.
“To quote my father, ‘It’s the cheapest hired man I ever had,’” Linn said.
October 1914 - John August Springer
homesteads 320 acres of benchland
1917 - Orville G. Herning moves
on the north bank of a sweeping bend his store to Wasilla after the railin the Matanuska River.
road established a town site there.
April 1, 1917 - Construction of Matanuska Experiment Station begins
under the direction of F.E. Rader.
Employees work on transformer at Palmer substation.
October 11, 1918, - Government
land sale in Wasilla.
1918 - Sutton founded as a station
on the Matanuska Branch of the
Alaska Railroad.
1929 - There are 58 farmers — 12
of whom are married — farming in
the Matanuska region, according to
the Alaska Experimental Stations’
annual report.
1927 - Alaska Agricultural Stations
and the Alaska Railroad cooperate
to establish a creamery at Curry,
expanding the market for the milk
produced in the Matanuska Valley.
It took another year to complete the 287 miles of power lines MEA
needed to reach all its members. But by the end of 1943, all 242
members had current. The first lines were built by men — like Bob
Mielke, Bill Smith and Ralph Moore — with long-handled shovels and
strong backs.
Evelyn Mielke said one of her new husband’s first jobs was digging holes
for a line across the Knik River in 1948. The soil was so sandy, she said
holes were 20-feet wide at the top to get them six- to ten-feet deep.
Linn said workers used shovels with eight- to ten-foot handles to dig
each hole.
Still, electricity was so uncommon in the Valley that when Frank B.
Linn arrived at the experiment station in 1927, Superintendent M.D.
Snodgrass put him in charge of the farm’s power plant after learning he
“knew what a light switch was,” Linn’s son recalled 90 years later.
Electricity was still uncommon in the Valley in 1937 when Colony doctor
Dr. C. Earl Albrecht began writing to the REA about forming an electric
co-op to serve the Valley. Albrecht installed the area’s first residential
generator in his family’s new private residence on Bailey Hill in Palmer
in the spring of 1941.
“Those guys sure were happy when they got the Blue Ox” — a
mechanized posthole digger — at the end of the World War II, he said.
As secretary of the electric co-op Board, Dr. Albrecht is one of five men
who signed MEA’s articles of incorporation March 1, 1941, along with
fellow incorporators Walter E. Huntley, Ross Sheely, Colonists Laurence
Arndt and Edward I. Wineck.
Alaska’s first REA cooperative
‘Dance your way to electric lights’
The Alaska Railroad, the mine operations at Chickaloon, Sutton, Eska
and Independence Mines, the Matanuska Experiment Station and co-op
buildings in Palmer had individual power plants to generate their own
electricity as early as 1917.
Before the REA would authorize formation of the cooperative, it needed
an “accurate report and survey showing that adequate and constant
power can be made available,” according to The Valley Settler, February
10, 1939.
February 4, 1935 - President
Franklin Roosevelt signs Executive
Order No. 6957 withdrawing 8,000
acres in the Matanuska Valley from
homestead entry for the Colony
Project.
May 10, 1935 - There is about 100 miles of
graded road in the region, 20 miles of gravel
road, no paved roads, no road from the Matanuska Valley to Anchorage, and no highway was
planned linking the Valley to Fairbanks when the
first 202 Colonists arrive in Palmer.
April 12, 1935 - Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp. incorporated.
March 1, 1941 - MEA formed.
1936 - Alaska State Fair founded.
October 14, 1941 - MEA signed its
first power purchase agreement
from Anchorage Power and Light
for a maximum of 250 kWh at a rate
of $0.02 per kWh.
An “Electric Ball” was organized at the Community Hall
March 11, 1939, to fund the survey. “Dance your way to
electric lights,” reads a hand-drawn ad in The Valley Settler.
The dance raised $150, enough for Anton Anderson —
original head surveyor for the Colony — to complete an
18-page report describing construction conditions.
In early 1940, REA sent a telegram authorizing formation of
an electric co-op. Construction began on a distribution line
from the Eklutna hydro plant with approved capitalization
of $187,000, and a $140,000 REA loan received April 10,
1941.
Reed’s plan to extend transmission lines from his expanded
Eklutna Hydro Plant across Knik Arm and the Matanuska
River stumbled when he failed to get financing in 1935.
Instead, MEA constructed the transmission line from
Eklutna in 1941, financed by an REA loan.
MEA’s first power purchase agreement was signed with
Reed’s Anchorage Power and Light on October 14, 1941, to
provide a maximum of 250 kWh at a rate of $0.02 per kWh.
MEA purchased power from Chugach Electric Association
from 1950 to 2015, when the Eklutna Generation Station
began production.
Today Reed’s concrete powerhouse is on the National
Register of Historic Places and stands on the grounds of
MEA’s Eklutna Generation Station.
The original “Electric Ball” event drawing.
61,877
56,409
MEA Historical Tid-Bits
Members paid a minimum monthly charge of $3.50 for
MEA service in 1942. Now, in 2015, it’s $5.65.
28,766
Early MEA members on the Chugiak Line in the 1950s
communicated with MEA via radio because there was
no phone service in that community at the time.
Points of service
Fred Machetanz paid his MEA bill in 1957 with a
watercolor painting of Denali. On loan to Mat-Su
College,the painting is on display in Student Services in
the Machetanz Building in Palmer.
Miles of power line
14,438
A Lockheed P-38 WW II aircraft flew too low over the
Knik River and took out four spans of power lines in
1945.
4,053
The average monthly electric bill for homes was
$15.67 (285 kWh) and on farms was $25.30 (572 kWh)
in 1955.
5,051
2,628
Former MEA General Manager Willard Johnson also
drove the mail truck, being responsible for the mail
route.
The National Academy of Engineering named
electrification as the most important engineering
achievement of the 20th century.
1941 - Power line constructed
from Eklutna Hydro to Palmer.
1943- All original 242 MEA
members had power.
January 20, 1942 - First MEA
members receive power.
January 3, 1959 - Alaska
becomes the 49th state in
the Union.
4,356
2,567
1,766
1,436
471
230
294
93
94
112
345
1942
1943
1947
1955
September 6, 1963 - MEA
purchases Talkeetna Light and
Power from Myron and Lynn
Stevens.
534
1960
865
1970
1980
1990
2010
2015
2013 - MEA begins constructing the
171-megawatt, natural-gas-fired
Eklutna Generation Station.
March 27, 1964 - Alaska Good Friday earthquake knocks out power
to MEA members for three days.
2015 - MEA becomes a vertically integrated utility producing, transmitting
and distributing all of its own power.
COMMUNITY GIVING
Being an integral part of the communities we serve has always been important to MEA.
1966 MEA scholarship recipients. Frontiersman Collection Courtesy of Jim Fox.
2015 MEA scholarship recipients.
Scholarships
As far back as we can find, MEA has been providing our young members with funds to support their career goals. In 1991, the ARECA Education
Foundation was established to guarantee funds to students for many years to come. Since then, over $587,328 has been given in scholarships to our
youth. In 2015, we awarded scholarships to 21 students in our service area totaling $20,000.
MEA bowling team. Year unknown.
Sponsorship and Donations
In 2015, MEA contributed over $25,000 to over 75 nonprofits. By committing ourselves to helping these organizations grow, we’re building our
communities one step at a time.
Employees bringing donations to victims of Millers Reach Fire (Big Lake 1998).
Sockeye Fire (Willow 2015).
Aid
When mother nature challenges our service area, it’s important to MEA to be part of the solution. We’ve offered support and aid to members and
neighboring utilities. In 2015, we rebuilt destroyed lines and services destroyed in the Sockeye Fire in Willow and assisted with digging outhouse
holes for those temporarily displaced from the fire.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Looking back through MEA’s archives, it was hard to find a box of photos that didn’t include MEA employees participating
in community events. Being a part of all of the communities we serve is an important part of being a cooperative, as it’s the
support of our communities and members that have helped us grow into who we are today.
Events
We’re proud supporters of local events
that take place in all of our communities
throughout the year. In 2015, we
participated in parades in Wasilla and
Palmer and handed out over 75 bags of
candy to spectators.
1991 Colony Days parade float.
2014 Colony Days parade float.
Energy Education
Mrs. Wright’s 5th grade class at Central School. Year unknown.
We’re dedicated to educating our
youngest members about the most
important parts of our industry: Safety
and Efficiency. Our Energy Education
programs include Safety City (grades
3-6) and Energy Efficiency (grades 7-9)
and are free of charge to all members.
Last year, over 1500 students received
one of our presentations.
3rd grade students at Sherrod Elementary in 2015.
Tree Decorating
The long-standing tradition of hanging
the Christmas lights up in downtown
Eagle River is a linemen favorite.
Tree decorating in Eagle River. Year Unknown.
Lineman Glenn Durkee decorating 2015 downtown Eagle River tree.
Alaska State Fair sack races. Year unknown.
Upgrading the Palmer Substation.
RAILBELT COLLABORATION
Alaska Public Utilities Insurance Trust’s Administrative Workshop.
Work on plans for system upgrades.
MEA’s previous vehicle fleet.
Since before Alaska was a state, our memberowned cooperatives have played an essential
role in developing the state’s small electric
grid and providing a platform for communities
to grow from small rural outposts into the
thriving cities and towns they are today. As
the populations in the service area of each of
the cooperatives grow closer, we continue to
look for new ways to work together. Today, the
Railbelt utilities are investigating how our assets
can be better coordinated for the benefit of
ratepayers throughout the system.
Firing up MEA’s Eklutna Generation Station
power plant in 2015 ushered in a new era of
Railbelt collaboration. A new power market was
developed that allows the electric utilities from
Homer to Fairbanks to buy and sell power from
each other when it is more cost effective for our
members.
The Eklutna Generation Station’s 10 smaller
reciprocating engines offer a unique product
– small increments of power. Not only is this
design the most effective for serving our
distinctive fluctuating residential load, but it
offers other utilities a less costly option for
meeting smaller power needs than throttling
back their larger engines or having to start one
that’s less efficient. The resulting sales provide
win-win cost savings for the members of the
buying utility and revenue for the seller.
Collaboration among the Railbelt utilities in
this new market is unprecedented and our
members are already seeing benefits through
reduced rates; however, there is more work to
be done. In 2016, MEA will work with the other
electric utilities on the Railbelt to consider ways
to collaborate on operating and managing the
system. We are open to any solution that will
increase reliability and reduce costs for our
members.
CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
UAF Experimental Farm
Sutton Community Playground
MEA’s Operation Roundup ® program contributed $152,150 back
into our local communities in 2015. Each month, bills of members
opted into the program are rounded to the nearest dollar. That
money is then distributed by a separate non-profit called the MEA
Charitable Foundation. With the pennies ($0.12- $11.88) given
annually per participant, members have provided the community
with improved sports fields, homeless youth support, veteran
services, recycling programs, children’s services and so much
more. Below is a list of the nonprofit grant recipients for 2015:
4 Paws for Ability
Access Alaska
Blood Bank of Alaska
Early Childhood Partnership of Mat-Su
Engine 557
Food Bank of Alaska
Friends of Sutton Library
Girl Scouts of Alaska
Love INC
Mat-Su Food Bank
Mat-Su Special Santa Program
Mat-Su Youth Housing (MYHouse)
Meadow Lakes Community Development
Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry
Radio Free Palmer
Set Free Alaska
Sunshine Community Health Center
Talkeetna Community Council
UAF Experimental Farm
United Way of Mat-Su
Valley Residential Services
Wasilla Area Seniors, Inc.
Wasilla Library Association
Wasilla Youth Soccer Association, Inc.
Mat-Su Miners
Radio Free Palmer
This foundation would not be possible without the volunteer Board
of Directors. This group works tirelessly to help those individuals and
organizations whose needs might otherwise fall through the cracks:
David Dahms, Chair
Barbara Gerard, Vice- Chair
Kelly Sidebottom, Secretary
Tom McGregor, Treasurer
Dee Bownes
Linda Menard-Post
Sue Smith
UAF Experimental Farm- the oldest weather station in the state. (Palmer 2015)
Since Operation Roundup ®
began in 2011, it has given
$617,659.67 back into the
local communities we serve.
RELIABILITY
Line crew in Talkeetna. Credit: Frontiersman
Collection Courtesy of Jim Fox.
Clearing rights-of-ways. Year unknown.
MEA realizes one of the most important things to our members is
keeping the lights on. In 2015, we sharpened our focus on reliability
and saw a decrease in both number and length of outages. Since
2013, MEA members have seen a 20% decrease in the average
length of an outage and a 32% decrease in total outage time.
Clearing
Clearing is MEA’s single most cost effective way to reduce outages.
Over the past 5 years, trees have caused 23% of our total system
outages and have accounted for 43% of total system outage time. We
improved our vegetation management plan, including development of
a 7-8 year clearing cycle focused on high need areas first. In 2015, we
focused on clearing in the Meadow Lakes area, Willow, Eagle River,
Birchwood/Chugiak and Palmer.
Substation upgrades
MEA completed upgrades to Hospital substation and Shaw substation
(Bogard/Seldon). These upgrades allow us to isolate the impact of
outages and paved the way for high-speed communication between
substations for quicker reaction time.
Wasilla Transmission Line approved
After a year of public involvement, the Wasilla Planning Commission
approved a route for a new transmission line to meet the area’s
significant growth and increase its reliability. Next steps include design
and right-of-way acquisition in 2016 with construction possible as
soon as 2017.
New meters
MEA continues to install electronic meters that allow our team to
better pinpoint locations of outages and more quickly and efficiently
collect meter readings. They can assist in reducing outage time and
result in significant cost savings for our members.
Underwater cable installation (Big Lake 1965).
Credit: Frontiersman Collection Courtesy of Jim Fox.
MEA continues to invest in capable, talented employees who are
dedicated to keeping the lights on day and night. Special thanks to
our line crew, clearing employees, dispatchers, engineers, and all the
others who work toward this goal each day.
FINANCIALS
Balance Sheet As Of December 31, 2015
Statement of Revenue and Patronage Capital
Year Ended December 31, 2015
Assets
Net Utility Plant
$578,278,819
Operating Revenues
$142,549,343
Other Property and Investments
22,986,617
Less: Fuel and Purchased Power Costs
65,539,313
Current Assets
37,773,547
Other Operating Expenses
70,534,646
6,986,268
Total Operating Expenses
136,073,959
Deferred Charges
Total Assets
$646,025,251
Operating Margins
6,475,384
Patronage Capital from Others
2,636,903
Non-Operating Margins, Net
Equities and Liabilities
Assignable Margins
9,381,133
Equities and Margins
$127,699,295
Long-Term Debt, Net
479,341,247
Beginning Patronage Capital
Current Liabilities
27,705,701
Patronage Capital Returned
Deferred Credits
11,279,008
Ending Patronage Capital
Total Equities and Liabilities
$646,025,251
268,846
113,917,966
$123,299,099
MEA members may request a complete copy of the audited
financial statements by calling 761-9212.
Matanuska Electric Association, Inc.
Where The Dollar Went In 2015
Matanuska Electric Association, Inc.
Where The Dollar Came From In 2015
Fuel and Purchased Power
0.2¢
4.6¢
-0.2¢ -1.8¢
0.2¢
6.6¢
Residential Sales
Power Production Expense
Maintenance & Operation of Lines
Consumer Accounts Expense
Comm & Ind Sales (1000
kVa or Less)
32.8¢
62.4¢
Administrative & General
13.1¢
0.3¢
Depreciation
Public Street & Hwy Lighting
Sales
46.0¢
12.9¢
Taxes
Interest on Long-Term Debt
Other Electric Revenues
Other Deductions
6.0¢
3.8¢
Interest Income & Other Non-op Margins
7.9¢ 5.3¢
Patronage From Others
Margins
COMMITTEE THANK YOUS
Our cooperative was started by to a group of individuals who worked hard to make something they believed in happen. We continue to
depend heavily on individuals with that same attitude and commitment to bettering their communities. Thank you to the volunteers listed
below who put hours of time, energy and focus into making our cooperative the best it can be.
Scholarship Committee:
Election Committee:
This committee meets annually, prior to our Annual Meeting, to review
applications and select recipients.
This committee’s work is mainly done leading up to the Annual
Meeting and works with the Election Overseer to ensure that all
MEA bylaws and guidelines are being followed with the annual
election.
DanaLyn Dalrymple
Lorriane Jagger-Kirsch
Mary Sears
Sarah Jansen
John Notestine
Dana Thorp-Patterson
Bylaw Committee:
This committee meets quarterly to review, discuss, and recommend
changes to the association’s bylaws.
Michael Janecek, Chair
David Combs
Phil Haley
Mark Kelsey
Dewey Taylor
Dan Tucker
(Vacant Seat)
Sheila Shinn, Chair
LaMarr Anderson
Tor Anderzen
Marian James
Dan Kennedy
Carrie Klein
Dan Tucker
If you are interested in joining a committee, please contact
Cassi Campbell at [email protected]
www.mea.coop
Matanuska Electric Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 2929 Palmer, AK 99645
Palmer
163 E. Industrial Way
761-9300, 745-3231
Outages: 746-POWR (7697)
Fax: 761-9352
Wasilla
1401 S. Seward Meridian Parkway
376-7237, 761-9500
Outages: 746-POWR (7697)
Fax: 761-9520
Eagle River
11623 Aurora St.
694-2161
Outages: 696-POWR (7697)
Fax: 689-9630