To view the full print/pdf version of Volume 2, Issue 3 of Currents, click here

For previous issues of Currents, visit our Currents Library

2024 Annual Meeting Recap

  By: Steve Sokolowski, Marketing Associate

  Email: ssokolowski@sussexrec.com

Our Annual Meeting season may be over now, but we can look back at 2024 as another great success!

As a member-owned electric cooperative, since our founding in 1937 we’ve had the responsibility to hold an Annual Meeting of Members every year. This yearly event is an opportunity for our employees, management, and directors to meet face-to-face with our membership, hear what is important to them, and give them an update on the Co-op’s operations over the previous year. Of course, we’ve also always made these events as fun as possible!

Since 2022, we’ve taken a different approach to our Annual Meetings. Early in the summer, we host an Online Meeting on our website to cover the business portion of the event. You can read more about our 2024 Online Meeting below!

Then in August, as part of the NJ State Fair at the Sussex County Fairgrounds, we welcome members to join us for an in-person Member Appreciation Event. This year’s Member Appreciation Event was held on Monday, August 5th at the Fairgrounds’ BBQ Pavilion.

We had an amazing time throughout the day speaking with members and answering questions. Our prize wheel made a return from last year and was a big hit! Members spun to win free giveaways such as mini diecast bucket trucks, thermal lunch bags, waterproof dry bags, and more!

For attending, each member received a $10 bill credit and entry into our prize drawing. We gave away over 26 great prizes this year to our lucky winners whose names were drawn randomly from a list of all attendees. Prizes included model bucket and digger trucks, gift cards, bill credits, and more!

The grand prize was once again a free year of electricity for one lucky winner – a bill credit of $1,250, based on the average annual usage of a residential member. Congratulation to all of our winners!

We are incredibly proud to say that 2024 was another record year for attendance at our event! We would like to thank every single member who attended this year’s Member Appreciation Event as well as the folks behind the Fair for allowing us to be a part of their event.

If you missed out on 2024’s event or are looking forward to next year, please be on the lookout for a “Save the Date” for 2025, coming soon! And don’t forget, we offer up to two free Fair tickets you can use to attend our event if you register within a certain time frame of the Online Meeting. Be sure to stay in the loop so you don’t miss out on this added benefit.