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NOTICE: Discontinuance of Master Metering

kassi — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:54:58 +0000

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Duncan Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. in accordance with A-25, Mobile Home and RV Park Policy, will refuse service to all new construction or expansion of existing permanent residential mobile home parks unless each residence is individually metered, and master metering is discontinued.

Master metering is a meter for measuring or recording the flow of electricity that has passed through it at a single location where said electricity is distributed to tenants or occupants for their individual usage. Any location where two or more permanent residential mobile homes are metered together and not individually metered will be considered master metered.

This policy supplements and conforms to the rules for Duncan Valley Electric Cooperative (DVEC) serviced Mobile Home Parks – New Construction/Expansion (Mobile Home Parks, Section 149) as set forth in the Duncan Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. Rules and Regulations, on file with the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) and is consistent with Arizona Administrative Code Section R14-2-205, Master Metering, which requires individual metering of permanent residential mobile home spaces.

Permanent residential mobile homes include all mobile or transportable type residences or structures, including manufactured housing or recreational vehicles, where, in the opinion of DVEC, the average length of stay for an occupant is a minimum of six months.

Mobile Home and RV Parks within DVEC service area that were master metered prior to Arizona Administrative Code Section R14-2-205 are encouraged to call the DVEC office to schedule a FREE Power Quality Audit. The DVEC crew will test the equipment on our side of the meter to ensure it is able to continue safely providing the power required for the ever increasing electrical needs of tenant Mobile and RV homes. In the event the master meter system located within the park is deemed insufficient for the power needs of the tenants, the park will be encouraged to discontinue master metering and allow DVEC to individually meter each space.

This allows the cooperative to adequately measure the usage of each tenant, supply the equipment on our side of the meter and provide the electricity required to afford the energy reliability our membership expects.

Please call the DVEC office at 928-359-2503 with any questions or to schedule your free Power Quality Audit.

DVEC BILL PAY COMING SOON!

kassi — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:26:01 +0000

DVEC BILL PAY COMING SOON!

Credit Card Processing Change Coming to DVEC

kassi — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 22:10:14 +0000

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Over the last few months, you may have noticed that we have shared on social media and our website that billing is going to be moving to an outsourced credit card processing system. Mr. Downs also spoke about this upcoming change in his President’s Report at the Annual Meeting in April. Currently DVEC absorbs the fees charged to the cooperative for membership use of credit and debit cards to pay bills. That number has been growing at a fast pace over the last couple of years. The Board of Directors has deemed a change necessary. We are currently working with our card processor to move to an online bill pay platform that will allow members to see their bills and history online with an option to pay your bill conveniently from your phone or home computer. As of the writing of this article, the projected go live date for that website launch will be sometime in August 2024.

With this exciting move, however, credit and debit card convenience fees will be billed by the credit card processing company. Because of our small size, being the smallest electric and natural gas cooperative in the state of Arizona, and one of the smaller across the country, DVEC does not have many options. We have chosen to remain with our current billing processor and their card processing vendor to move forward.

The card processor has calculated and thus determined the convenience fee and payment cap based on our membership size, the size of our average billing amounts, the number of members usually paying with a credit or debit card, and so on. The Convenience Fee will be $6.75 per card transaction. The transactions will also be capped at $250.

Much like purchasing diesel at the gas station, when you’ve reached the $75 cap on your card you must run your card again. If your DVEC bill is $315 for example, and you choose to pay online with a credit or debit card, your bill will need to be paid in two increments. The first transaction will be $250, with a $6.75 convenience fee. The second will be the remaining balance of $65.00 with another $6.75 convenience fee. We realize this is cause for concern for many of our card paying members, but remember, payments made by cash, check and Easy Pay Bank Draft payments will continue to be fee FREE with no cap on payment amounts. Contact the DVEC office to learn how to sign up for Easy Pay Bank Draft.

Please let us know if you have any other questions on this change in services coming from Duncan Valley Electric Cooperative as we continue to look for options to meet the needs of our membership in the most fiscally responsible way possible.

Member Satisfaction Survey

admin — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 20:30:56 +0000

Member Satisfaction Survey

DVEC Application for Long-Term Financing

kassi — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:56:03 +0000

Thursday | March 28, 2024

PUBLIC NOTICE

AN APPLICATION FOR AN ORDER

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF LONG-TERM FINANCING BY

DUNCAN VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.

Docket No. E-01703A-24-0070

Duncan Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. ("Company") filed a streamlined financing application with the Arizona Corporation Commission ("Commission") for an order authorizing Company to borrow $2,000,000.00 to finance the construction of utility plant. The Commission may approve, disapprove, or approve the financing request with modifications. The Commission may act on the financing request with or without a hearing.

How to View the Application

The application is available for inspection during regular business hours at the Company's main office located at 379597 Az 75, Duncan, AZ 85534 and at the Commission's Docket Control Center at 1200 West Washington, Phoenix, Arizona, 85007, its Tucson office at 400 West Congress, Suite 218, Tucson, Arizona, 85701 and on the Internet via the Commission website www.azcc.gov using the e-Docket function, and Docket No. E-01703A-24-0070.

How Interested Persons May Participate

An interested person may participate in this matter by (1) providing written public comment, or (2) filing for intervention and becoming a formal party to the proceedings. Written public comments must refer to E-01703A-24-0070 and may be submitted any time as follows:

By Mail: Arizona Corporation Commission

Consumer Service Section

1200 West Washington Street

Phoenix, AZ 85007

On the Website: www.azcc.gov clicking on Cases and Open Meetings and selecting “Make a Public Comment in a Docket”. Anyone requiring assistance may contact the Consumer Services Section at 1-800-222-7000 or 602-542-4251.

About Intervention

Intervention in the Commission's proceedings on the application shall be permitted if the outcome of the case directly and substantially impacts the person, and the person's intervention will not unduly broaden the issues in the case. Information about intervention and sample intervention requests are available on the Commission's website www.azcc.gov by clicking the tab, Cases and Open Meetings and selecting "Intervene in a Case". To request intervention, you must file a written request to intervene, either (a) by eFiling the request, or (b) by filing a hard copy request (meeting filing requirements) with Docket Control (Docket Control, 1200 West Washington, Phoenix, AZ 85007), no later than April 26, 2024, and send a copy of the request to Company or its counsel and to all parties of record, on the same day that you file the request to intervene with the Commission.

Your request to intervene must contain the following:

Your name, address, and telephone number, and the name, address, and telephone number of any party upon whom service of documents is to be made, if not yourself,
A reference to Docket No. E-01703A-24-0070
A short statement explaining:
1. Your interest in the proceeding (e.g., a customer of the Company, etc.)
2. How you will be directly and substantially affected by the outcome of the case, and
3. Why your intervention will not unduly broaden the issues in the case,
A statement certifying that you have served a copy of the request to intervene on the utility or its attorney and all parties of record in the case, and
If you are not represented by an attorney who is an active member of the Arizona State Bar, and you are not representing yourself as an individual, sufficient information, and any appropriate documentation to demonstrate compliance with Arizona Supreme Court Rules 31, 38, 39 and 42, as applicable.

The granting of motions to intervene shall be governed by A.A.C. R14-3-105, except that motions to intervene must be filed on or before April 26, 2024. If representation by counsel is required by Arizona Supreme Court Rule 31, intervention will be conditioned upon the intervenor obtaining counsel to represent the intervenor.

A sample intervention request form is available at: https://www.azcc.gov/hearing/how-to-intervence-in-a-case

DVEC Annual Meeting 2024

kassi — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:32:29 +0000

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The 2024 Duncan Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. Annual Meeting of the Membership will be held on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at the Brubaker Gymnasium at Duncan Elementary School, 251 McGrath Ave. Duncan, AZ 85534.

Registration for the membership will begin at 4PM with the meeting starting at 5PM. Members must register in person to be eligible for the door prize drawings.

All official business for DVEC's Annual Meeting is conducted via mail-in ballots. Annual Meeting packets including the ballots will be mailed on March 27, 2024 so please watch for those in your mailbox.

Please indicate on your ballot if you approve the minutes of the April 27, 2023 annual meeting, which are included in the annual meeting packet. If you have questions or concerns about the minutes, please call DVEC's office at 928-359-2503.

For the director section of the ballot, vote for only one candidate or write in the name of one candidate. The listed candidates are those who have returned nominating petitions according to the Bylaws of the Cooperative and are residents of your respective districts. Write-in candidates must meet the same residency requirements and can only be elected by members of their district. Candidate information can be found on the reverse of the official notice.

Detach the ballot and place in the return ballot envelope. If dropping off your ballot in person, please place your sealed envelope in the night DEPOSITORY box next to the front door or the locked ballot box in the front office.

Ballots must be received in DVEC's office by 5:00PM, Tuesday, April 23, 2024.

DVEC's Newest Board Member

kassi — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:03:35 +0000

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Please help us welcome the newest member of the DVEC Board of Directors, William "Bill" Cuthbertson!

Bill was appointed in January 2024 to the board to fill a vacancy for District 1. He, along with two other candidates, submitted a letter of interest and a resume. Each of the three candidates then completed an in person interview with the remaining members of the board.

Per the Bylaws of the cooperative (Article IV, Directors; Section 7. Vacancies), he was then "appointed by the affirmative vote of the majority of the remaining directors."

Bill has been a lifelong member of Greenlee County (minus a stint for college) and a DVEC member for 15+ years. He retired as a Senior Resource Analyst of the Land and Water Department for Freeport McMoran where he worked for 35 years. He holds a BSE in Civil Engineering and a BAE in Industrial Education. Bill served on the Arizona State Transportation Board as well as the Morenci School Governing Board.

We are excited to welcome Bill to the DVEC team!

DVEC Easy Pay - Automatic Payments with no Credit Card Fees!

kassi — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:19:34 +0000

DVEC Easy Pay - Automatic Payments with no Credit Card Fees!

DVEC Board of Directors Vacancy

kassi — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:09:07 +0000

Tuesday | November 21, 2023

The Duncan Valley Electric Board of Directors announces the retirement of Mrs. Judy McKinley from her District 1 Board Director position. We wish Mrs. McKinley all the best and thank her for her years of dedicated service to Duncan Valley!

With Mrs. McKinley's relocation and retirement, a seat on the Board of Directors is now vacant and the remainder of her term, beginning the middle of January 2024 until the annual meeting in April 2025, will be filled, in accordance with the DVEC Bylaws, by the majority vote of the DVEC Board of Directors from a pool of candidates from District 1. District 1 is all certified area of the DVEC service territory in Greenlee County, AZ, north of Apache Creek and Walnut Canyon including York, Loma Linda, Verde Lee, Three Way, Greenlee Mountain Ranchettes, etc to Clifton, AZ, shown in pink on the map below.

If you wish to be considered as a candidate, the following qualifications must be met:

Must be a member and bonafide resident of the district he/she represents in the area served by the cooperative (in this case, District 1), and willing and able to remain a member and resident throughout their term of service as a director.
Able to attend regular monthly board meetings on the third Monday of each month (9:30AM), unless otherwise noted with plenty of notice.
Able to attend Committee Meetings, as assigned by the Board President, to be scheduled throughout the year.
Able to attend other Board and Cooperative related activities throughout the year.
Willing and able to begin the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association approved director education program. Newly elected directors must complete the program before the end of their first full elected term, in the case of an appointment, time leniency will be granted as long as the program is started and worked on in good faith.
Provide a letter of interest and a resume or curriculum vitae to DVEC CEO, Kassi Mortensen, to be received by close of business on January 9, 2024 via mail, email or hand delivery to:

Mail:
DVEC
Attn: Kassi Mortensen
PO Box 440
Duncan, AZ 85534

or Email: dvec.org@gmail.com

Hand Delivery:
DVEC Office
379597 AZ 75
Duncan, AZ 85534

Please feel free to contact CEO, Kassi Mortensen, with any questions at 928-359-2503.

DVEC Announces New CEO

kassi — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 23:32:58 +0000

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As Steve Lunt, CEO Emeritus for Duncan Valley Electric, transitions into retirement, the DVEC Board of Directors announces Kassi Mortensen will step into the role of CEO beginning in July 2023.

Kassi grew up in an agricultural family, in the small, rural community of Luna, NM. Her grandparents’ ranch house located NW of Luna is too far off grid to receive electric power and to this day runs off solar and gasoline generators, giving her a true appreciation for rural electrification and the rural lifestyle. Kassi completed a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and a Master of Business Administration at New Mexico State University. In 2015 she and her husband, Nate, chose to return to Virden, NM, to the family home where Nate grew up; to raise their two children in the small-town tradition and school systems that the Duncan/Virden area could provide. She has been a member of Duncan Valley Cooperative since the move in 2015, an employee of the cooperative as the Administrative Specialist for the last five years and was appointed the new Chief Executive Officer of DVEC in April 2023, officially embracing the role of CEO in July 2023. Kassi has volunteered and worked in several areas of the community throughout the years including coaching volleyball and basketball at Duncan Schools from junior high up to high school, working with the Duncan Wildkat PTO, Greenlee Junior Rodeo Series, Duncan Valley PAL, Greenlee County Stick Horse Stampede, and much more. She is excited to continuing serving the community she has made her home as the new Chief Executive Officer of Duncan Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc.