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Coal-planning Cobb EMC board to meet

Cobb EMC to hold first member meeting since spate of legal problems.
Its current directors still want to build a coal plant in Ben Hill County.

Kim Isaza wrote for MDJonline.com today,

Sides set for first EMC meeting: Date set for Sept. 17, but Cobb Superior court judge must first grant approval



Pending approval from Judge Stephen Schuster, the first meeting of Cobb
EMC members in nearly three years will convene at 10:15 a.m. Sept. 17.

At that meeting, members will decide two issues: whether to allow voting
by mail-in ballots at future elections, and whether to amend the electric
cooperative’s bylaws to limit director compensation to a daily rate
while also prohibiting future directors from being paid retirement
benefits. Previously vested benefits would not be affected.

And look which one the directors really don’t like:

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