Mason County PUD No. 3 Commissioner Linda Gott has been elected to the Energy Northwest Executive Board. Gott will serve a four-year term on the Executive Board which sets the policies that govern the operations of the organization. Her new term begins June 17. Mason County PUD 3 commissioners appointed Gott to the Energy Northwest Board of Directors in 2007. She served as alternate to the board of directors for six years prior. She was elected to serve as the board vice president in 2011. In January 2013, Gott was elected to serve as president of Energy Northwest’s Board of Directors for a two-year term. The public power agency’s 27-member board of directors represents the 22 public utility districts and five municipal utilities that make up Energy Northwest. The board of directors has sole authority to authorize and terminate projects. Gott has served as a Mason County Commissioner since 1999. She also serves on the American Public Power Association’s Legislative and Resolutions Committee and is past president of Public Utility Risk Management Services. In addition, she currently serves on the NoaNet Board of Directors and served six years on the Northwest Public Power Association Board of Trustees. She previously served for six years as the PUD’s representative to the Economic Development Council of Mason County and continues to actively promote the benefits of public power and its involvement in and build-out of rural telecommunication systems using fiber optic technology.
“I look forward to working on the executive board to promote Energy Northwest’s mission of providing safe, reliable and cost-effective power to our public power members and regional ratepayers,” Gott said.