Serving East TN. & Western NC. Since 1941 Facebook New Service Rates PAY MY BILL Home About MEC Services Education Energy Right Contact Board of Directors About MEC Board of Directors Mountain Electric Cooperative is a non-profit electric cooperative, chartered under the laws of Tennessee to distribute electric energy to the people living in its service area. The members own and control it through an elected Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is composed of 8 members, one elected from each of the districts – Three from Johnson County, three from Avery County and two from Roan Mountain. The board members are also members of the cooperative. District Meetings are held in August for the members of that district to vote for the candidate of their choice. Each district meeting is held within the said district at which a director from the district resides and the director is elected by only members residing in that district. Nominations are made by nomination committee and by signed petition (10 member’s signatures are required on the petition). The voting is conducted by written ballot, and trustees are elected to serve three-year terms. The board is the policy making and supervisory body for MEC. It sees that the cooperative is run properly and to the best interest of all members and that the policies agreed upon are carried out. The board employs a General Manager to oversee the cooperative’s day-to-day operations. MEC’s current general manager is Joe Thacker. Present board members are: District 1: Joe Atwood 423-727-7305 District 2: John Brookshire 423-213-9360 District 3: Bob Heck 423-291-2118 District 4: Harry Smith 828-387-7155 District 5: R. Bruce Lacey, Vice President 828-733-4475 District 6: Ronnie Townson 423-725-3764 District 7: W.O. Hampton Secretary/ Treasurer 423-772-4284 District 8: David Ellis President 828-733-4964 MEC Districts, board members, and communities served: District 1 Joe Atwood Mountain City Pleasant Valley Cold Springs Silver Lake Laurel Bloomery Sugar Creek Furnace Creek Shingle Town Harbin Hill District 2 John Brookshire Sutherland Crandull Shady Valley Doe Valley Pandora Doeville to the Roan Creek Bridge Sink Valley Butler (to the bridge across Watauga Lake) Pierce Town (to the Watauga Lake Boundary) District 3 Bob Heck Shouns Trade Forge Creek Neva Dry Run Mill Creek Bakers Gap Little Dry Run Dry Hill Crackers Neck Bunton Town to the Carter County line Walnut Grove District 4 Harry Smith Banner Elk Linville Sugar Mountain Grandfather Community Matney District 5 Bruce Lacey Newland Pineola Crossnore Linville Falls Montezuma Land Harbor Jonas Ridge District 6 Ronnie Townson Simerly Creek Tiger Creek Elk Mills Whitehead Hill to Roaring Creek Bridge Fairview Tolley Town Poga to the state line Little Milligan Ripshin Fish Springs (Hwy 67 to the bridge across Watauga Lake) District 7 W.O. Hampton Roan Mountain Shell Creek Upper Shell Creek Buck Mountain Cove Creek Burbank Crabtree District 8 David Ellis Elk Park to state line Heaton Creek Old Beech Mountain Beech Mountain Minneapolis Cranberry Roaring Creek Serving East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Since 1941 © 2021 MOUNTAIN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. INNOVATION BY THENET360