PRESS RELEASE To: Area Media From: LPEA 2015 Election Supervisory Committee Re: Request to Disqualify LPEA Board Candidates Date: April 16, 2015 Two candidates for the La Plata Electric Board of Directors have been determined to be eligible to run for the Board by LPEA after their qualifications were challenged by an LPEA member. The candidates, Greg Dubit and incumbent Britt Bassett, had their qualifications challenged by LPEA member Christi Zeller who asserted they were ineligible under an LPEA Bylaw requiring that for a person to be eligible to become a director that he not be employed in any way by a business selling electric energy. The LPEA Election Supervisory Committee reviewed the bylaw and the employment status of the two candidates and concluded that neither worked for a business that sold electric energy and therefore they could not be disqualified under that bylaw qualification requirement. The LPEA Election Supervisory Committee is charged under a board policy to resolve disputes that arise regarding elections of board members. The LPEA Board appointed the LPEA Supervisory Committee at its March board meeting. The committee members are Barry Spear, Tiffany Parker and Cindy Straight. Bassett is running against Jim Wotkyns in District 3. Dubit is running against Kohler McInnes in District 2. The other two races for the LPEA Board of Directors are incumbent Bob Formwalt against Nicholas “Koli” Kazarino in District 1 and Karen Barger against incumbent Heather Erb in District 4. LPEA, a nonprofit electric cooperation corporation, distributes electricity to more than 30,000 meters in a service territory consisting primarily of La Plata and Archuleta counties. The annual meeting of the LPEA members will be May 16, 2015, at Pagosa Springs High School, where the votes for election for the Board of Directors will be tallied.