Attach to Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Information about Schedule O (Form 990 or 990-EZ) and its instructions is at| Return Reference | Explanation |
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| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 | New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Inc. ("the Cooperative") has members. Any person, firm, corporation or body politic may become a member in the Cooperative by: a. making an application for membership and service; b. agreeing to purchase goods or services from the Cooperative as specified in the bylaws; and c. agreeing to comply with and be bound by the Certificate or Organization of the Cooperative and the Code of Bylaws and any amendments thereto and such rules and regulations as may from time to time be adopted by the Board of Directors. No person, firm, corporation and body politic may own more than one (1) membership in the Cooperative. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7a | The Cooperative's eleven (11) member Board of Directors is chosen by and from the membership. At each annual meeting to which ballots are returned, directors are elected for three-year staggered terms, with at least three to be elected each year. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7b | The following items are subject to the affirmative vote of at least two-third (2/3) of the members voting by mail ballot: a. disposition of property that exceeds, it any one (1) years, ten percent (10%) of the value of the Cooperative's "Total Utility Plant" as stated in the most recent Annual Report of the Cooperative; b. disposition of any one item of a damaged property valued (at depreciated book) at more than $25,000; c. acquisition of generation, transmission and/or distribution facilities for which the purchase price exceeds twenty-five percent (25%) of the value of the Cooperative's "Total Utility Plant" as stated in the most recent Annual Report of the Cooperative; d. the sale of the Cooperative's entire system of the dissolution of the Cooperative; e. the alteration, amendment or repeal of the Cooperative's Code of Bylaws; and f. the amendment of the Certificate of Organization. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b | The Cooperative's Form 990 is reviewed by the Audit Committee with a recommendation to the full governing body. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c | Annual review of policy by Board of Directors and Board committee, annual review of ethics policy which includes conflict of interest by audit committee; disclosure to Board of Directors |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 | The Cooperative has an independent compensation consultant provide a CEO compensation analysis to the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for review with the Board of Directors. To ensure the wages of the CEO and non-union employees are within the salary ranges that are reasonable yet competitive in the marketplace, NHEC engages an outside consultant who specializes in compensation and is highly knowledgeable about rural electric cooperatives. Every few years the consultant issues a report to the NHEC Board of Directors establishing a fair market value range for the CEO position based on operating criteria. This operating criteria includes number of members served, total utility plant and operating revenue. For non-union employees, the consultant has built a compensation model which includes salary grades and pay ranges. The salary grades are based on job descriptions which are evaluated on the factors of job knowledge, leadership, organizational effect, complexity, and communication. The internal grade values are merged with external salary survey information (reflecting comparable pay for similar positions in comparable organizations). This modeling and optimization of internal equity and external market data is the basis of the established NHEC pay ranges. The Cooperative has an independent compensation consultant review and update wage schedule. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 | Fully audited financials, current 990 filling and policy on ethics & conflict of interest are posted on NHEC's website. |
| Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 | The amount reported on this line represents the amount of patronage capital that is either allocated or to be allocated to the members resulting from their purchase of electricity from the Cooperative for the 2013 calendar year. Such amounts allocated subsequent to year-end in a fair and equitable manner on the basis of patronage (i.e. purchases). The amounts allocated are representative of the margins from the provision of electric energy to the members and are done pursuant to the obligation that existed in the bylaws prior to the Cooperative providing electricity to members. Therefore, these amounts meet the definition of the term "Patronage dividends paid". |
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