Since last June’s annual member meeting, Crow Wing Power has taken no action on items the members voted to ask them to address: they have not removed the CEO; taken no action on an audit; and taken no action to address the lucrative mine royalty agreements — which are still in place!
We also asked them to improve transparency.
Let me give you a personal example of how they’ve approached that request.
Contrary to what members were told, the CWP tax return for the year of the Hunt Technologies sale is not available to members. Our Co-op filed a corporate return that year; they had to due to the significant Hunt sale profits.
Nonprofits are required to make their tax returns public. Crow Wing Power is a nonprofit utility — its members are its owners.
As a CWP member, I asked to be sent a copy of that 2006 tax return — they refused.
The board discussed my request and took a vote on allowing me to visit CWP offices and view the return.
That was allowed with conditions — I had to be supervised while viewing the return, and I couldn’t take pictures or notes while viewing the return.
One board member — Gert Roggenkamp — actually voted to deny me the ability to view the return!
When I viewed the return, subsidiary information was redacted and I found no mention of the money CEO Kraemer and most board members took from the Hunt sale at all. That personal profiteering has been absent from subsequent tax returns as well.
It should be clear by now — the current board won’t take the action members asked them to, we must elect board members committed to doing so. Please visit https://www.cwpaccountabilitygroup.com/ for information on how you can help!
Tim Quincer
Baxter
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