LA Trinidad’s municipal government is urging the National Electrification Administration (NEA) and the interim Board of Directors of the Benguet Electric Cooperative (BENECO) to immediately call for the election or selection of the regular members of the cooperative’s board.
Under Resolution No. 199, series of 2023, the La Trinidad local government is asking for an election to put into place members of the board selected by its member-consumer-owners (MCOs).
Earlier, the NEA Board of Administrators (BOA) through Resolution No. RB 03-2023 dated January 10, 2023 confirmed the creation of ‘Task Force BENECO’ to act as the interim Board of Directors of the electric cooperative.
However, the council claimed that the NEA-BOA resolution did not specify the tenure or term of the task force, an issue raised by MCOs in the general assemblies.
BENECO’s constitution and by-laws also stipulate that the electric cooperative shall be governed by democratically elected members of the Board of Directors.
The resolution will be transmitted to the NEA-BOA and the interim board for their information and further action needed in the future.
