2025 BLC Summit

Description

NRECA BLC SUMMIT
January 14-16, 2025 (dates subject to change)
MREA Office
Maple Grove, MN

OVERVIEW

January 14, 2025

BLC 988.1 The Board's Role in Safety

Establishing a culture of safety is the first responsibility of an electric cooperative board. Together with the CEO, the board must continually and carefully provide oversight of safety performance to establish and maintain a culture of safety. Many boards are challenged to find the balance between positively influencing safety performance and becoming entrenched in cooperative operations. This course is designed to help distribution cooperative boards find that balance and to fulfil their safety oversight responsibilities.

January 15, 2025

BLC 974.1 Rate Making Strategies and Policy Decisions for Electric Cooperative Board
It is often said that the rate making process is part art and part science. The process includes many mathematical calculations, but wisdom and judgment are also critical aspects of the process. Today, the rate making process requires Boards of Directors, CEOs, and staff to develop fair and equitable rates that will produce margins necessary to meet financial goals and lender requirements, member reliability, and service requirements amid competitive pressures in an era of rising costs, flat or declining sales, or member bases impacted by economic circumstances, energy efficiency, or energy conservation. 

Participants will work through the rate making process, focusing on the critical strategy and policy decisions Boards face. 

January 16, 2025
BLC 944.1 Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback
Giving and receiving feedback is a necessary part of any functional relationship. Yet, many lack the confidence and skill to both deliver and receive it successfully.  Electric co-op boards must give feedback to the CEO if the relationship with its only employee is to be effective and productive. Directors giving and receiving feedback from one another in boardroom discussions is a critical element for effective boardroom dialogue. This course will provide valuable skills and instructor-guided practice opportunities to sharpen the skills needed to successfully give and receive both types of feedback. 

INSTRUCTOR 

988.1 - Kevin Sump
974.1 - John Perry & the CFC Team
944.1 - TBD

WHO SHOULD ATTEND 

Cooperative directors

PRICE 
 

$658 per class -  Members

$758 per class -  NON Members

EVENT POLICIES
MREA EVENT CODE OF CONDUCT (LINK TO FULL POLICY)
MREA is committed to providing a safe, productive and welcoming environment for all participants and staff in MREA meetings, conferences, training programs, and events both online and in-person. All Event participants including but not limited to attendees, speakers, exhibitors, staff, students, guests and vendors, are expected to abide by this MREA Event Code of Conduct, and this code applies to all space and situations in which MREA meeting-related activities are being conducted, including virtual meetings and those sponsored by organizations other than MREA but held in conjunction with MREA Events. Participation constitutes agreement to comply with the Code of Conduct as a condition of attendance. 

2025 LATE REGISTRATION
All events in 2025 will be subject to a $50 late registration fee for anyone that registers less than 2 weeks prior to the published event dates.