By Dominic B. dela Cruz
Staff Reporter
Dingras,
Ilocos Norte—Ilocos Norte Electric Cooperative (INEC) officer-in-charge Engr.
Felino Herbert Agdigos announced that the elections for district board members have
been set for the four Saturdays of November.
Agdigos said the INEC screening
committee have been accepting candidates for the first district election set for
the Badoc and Pinili district on November 9.
This will be followed by the Marcos,
Banna and Nueva Era district on November 16; the Pagudpud, Burgos, Adams and
Dumalneg district on November 23; November for the San Nicolas and the southern
part of Laoag City district.
Agdigos said that there will be
no problem as far as the names of member-consumers is concerned because it is
being updated regularly.
As of press time, INEC-ISD
manager Menchie Cariaga said only former Joseph Vergel Calajate, son of the
incumbent INEC board member Virgilio Calajate who has filed his candidacy for
director of the Badoc and Pinili district.
The screening committee will
determine if the candidate is qualified under the requirements set forth by the
National Electrification Administration. Should the only candidate for the said
district is deemed not qualified, INEC will report to NEA that there is a
failure to hold elections for the district. NEA, would then either set another
election date or a director would be appointed. Another option is for the
incumbent director to resume in a holdover capacity.
Cariaga said the screening
committee will convene seven days before the election and two days later will
be announced the qualified and disqualified candidates.
Meanwhile, INEC board president
Reynaldo M. Lazo disclosed that NEA has allowed the multiple conduct of Annual
General Membership Assembly (AGMA).
With this development, Lazo
said that this will be taken up during the coming board meetings as to when and
where it would be held for the whole month of December.
The new ruling, Lazo said, aims
to give chances to member-consumers to attend the AGMA and for INEC to bring it
closer to the people.
He cited an example that if the
board decided to hold an AGMA in Batac for the second district, a similar AGMA
would also be held for the first district.
However Lazo said this would
still depend on the INEC board’s decision on how many assemblies they would
hold.
The new NEA ruling also states
that electric cooperatives must target at least five percent of the total
member-consumers to attend the general assemblies.
Records show that INEC has
around 130,000 member-consumers. Five percent of this would be 7,500. This is
the target attendance of INEC. Past general assemblies were attended by 4,000
to 5,000 member-consumers.
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