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Official Notice of Annual Meeting

The annual membership meeting of Lower Yellowstone Rural Electric Cooperative will be a hybrid meeting this year. The in-person meeting will be held in the new addition of the Richland County Fairgrounds Event Center in Sidney, Richland County, Montana, at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the 3rd day of June. The meeting invite for the virtual meeting will be posted below and on social media pages when the meeting gets closer. Each member account who registers, either in person or virtually, and attends the entirety of the business meeting will receive a $50 bill credit. 

The following business will be transacted:

  • The reports of officers, trustees, and committees. 
  • Report of trustee election.
  • All other business that may come before the meeting.

Registration and dinner will begin at 4:30 p.m. The business meeting will start at 5:30 p.m. 

Scholarship winner will be announced during the meeting. For more information on scholarships go to  https://lyrec.com/scholarships.

The following members have been nominated for trustee positions by the Nominating Committee. 

Dennis Nelson District 5

Greg Rauschendorfer District 6

Allen Thiessen District 7

The nominating committee met on March 3, 2026. Following the committee's work, they nominated only one candidate per district; accordingly, the election of trustees will be by acclamation. Dennis Nelson will be re-elected to represent District 5, Greg Raushendorfer will be re-elected to represent District 6, and Allen Thiessen will be re-elected to represent District 7. 

2026 Annual Meeting Program