Annual Cobb EMC meeting to go ahead, without board vote

They won’t be holding the usual board elections.

But the 70th annual meeting of Marietta-based Cobb EMC will otherwise go forward as planned Thursday.

Registration begins at 10 a.m., and the meeting’s business section starts an hour later.

The meeting is at Cobb EMC’s headquarters at 1000 EMC Parkway in Marietta.

It originally included a vote on four of the embattled electric cooperative’s board members, who are elected by the co-op’s customer members.

Four challengers are running against three of the four incumbents.

Cobb County Superior Court Judge Stephen Schuster ordered the vote delayed last week, saying the member-owned co-op needed a more accessible procedure for electing officers.

Several co-op members sued Cobb EMC and its for-profit operating affiliate, Cobb Energy, last fall, saying the relationship between the two had siphoned co-op assets.