2018 Annual Membership Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, October 3

 6:45 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Wesley B. Roberts Memorial Golf Tournament                                                   Cowboys Golf Club, 1600 Fairway Drive, Grapevine, Texas        

(Breakfast at 6:45 am and Lunch Included in Registration, Shotgun start at 7:45 am)

3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Registration — High Plains Foyer
4:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Where the Stars are Still Big & Bright Welcome Reception
Associate Members Table-Top Displays & Live/Silent Auction

 

Thursday, October 4

7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Registration — High Plains Foyer

7:00 - 8:00 a.m.

Breakfast — Texoma 3

8:00 - 8:15 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Craig Cook, TSTCI President, Hill Country Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
Weldon R. Gray, CPA, TSTCI CEO
High Plains 1

8:15 - 9:15 a.m.

Keynote Speaker: 
Dr. Jeffrey Magee
Topic: Your Trajectory Code to Accelerated Leadership Success!
High Plains 1

9:15 - 10:00 a.m.

Electric Cooperatives – Friend or Foe?
Don R. Richards, Richards, Elder & Gibson PLLC
High Plains 1

10:00 - 10:15 a.m.

Break — High Plains 1

10:15 - 11:00 a.m.

First Net — Where we are now
Jacque Miller-Waring, FirstNet
High Plains 1

11:00 a.m.- Noon

Leases vs. Service Agreements — It Matters!

Panel Moderator: Wade Wilson, Bolinger, Segars, Gilbert & Moss, LLP

Panelists:        

Sharon Minor, Moss Adams
Blake Lackey, Curtis Blakely & Co., PC
Karen Storms, GVNW
Jeremiah Raya, JSI
Daniel Gibson, Richards, Elder & Gibson PLLC
High Plains 1

 
Noon - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch (on your own)

1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
(Open to TSTCI ILEC Members and their signed-in designee(s))
- Legislative & Regulatory Updates
- Association Business Meeting
- Election — Directors & Officers
High Plains 1

6:30 p.m. 5th Annual Rural Matters Dinner & Awards Banquet
TSTCI Legend Award & TSTCI Friend of Rural Award
High Plains 1
9:30 p.m.

Banquet Concludes

 

Friday, October 5

7:00 - 11:15 a.m.

Registration — High Plains Foyer

7:00 - 8:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast — Texoma 3

8:00 - 8:15 a.m.

Good Morning from USDA                                                                                                  Edd Hargett, USDA State Director-Rural Development
High Plains 1

8:15 - 8:30 a.m.

TLSN Update                                                                                                                           Brad Seymour, TLSN
High Plains 1
8:30 - 9:45 a.m.

Managers – Tough Choices
Panel Moderator:
Weldon R. Gray, CPA, TSTCI CEO
Panelists:
Steven Steele, Peoples Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
Kelly Allison, Colorado Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
Amy Linzey, West Texas Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc
Charlie Cano, ETEX Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
High Plains 1

9:45 - 10:00 a.m. Break — High Plains 1
10:00 -11:15 a.m.

Ask a Millennial! 
Andy Johns, WordSouth and Panel of Millennials
High Plains 1

11:15 - 11:30 a.m.

Grand Prize Drawing — Cash! (Must be Present to Win)

11:30 a.m. Meeting Adjourns

 

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