Deborah Debnam

Deborah Debnam, Vice President Sterling, District 2 | Don Seelinger, Secretary/Treasurer | Seldovia, District 3 | Bruce Passe, Deputy Secretary Soldotna, District 1 | Mike Nugent | Nikiski, District 1 | David B. Thomas | Kenai, District 1 | Hugh Chumley Sterling, District 2 | J. Michael Pate Homer, District 3 | Brian Hirsch Homer, District 3
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Deborah Debnam, Vice President

Deborah Debnam, Vice President

Debbie Debnam: I, Debbie Debnam, have been a member of HEA for 13 ½ years and have served on the HEA Board for the last six years.

In District Two (Soldotna-Sterling), incumbent Deb Debnam was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors, receiving 2,406 votes.
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Dave Carey of Soldotna will serve as President, Hugh Chumley of Sterling will serve as Vice-President, Mike Nugent of Kenai will serve as Secretary-Treasurer and Debbie Debnam of Sterling will serve as Deputy Secretary.

Dave Carey was selected to be president, Hugh Chumley will serve as vice-president, Deborah Debnam was elected secretary-treasurer and Ruth Fitzpatrick will serve as deputy secretary-treasurer.

In District 2, which includes the Sterling-Soldotna area, former board member Patrick Cowan of Soldotna, president and chief executive officer of Birch Ridge Golf Course, is challenging incumbent Deborah Debnam of Soldotna, who defeated Cowan in the 2001 election.
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Cowan hopes to wrest a board seat from incumbent Deb Debnam, who beat him in the election three years ago.
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DEBORAH DEBNAM

Debnam has been a member of Homer Electric Association for 10 years and has served on the board the last three.She currently is the board's secretary-treasurer and chair of the finance committee.She owns Alaska Wedding Brokers in Sterling.She worked for more than 15 years in management for Chugach Electric.

Debnam said she's running for another term for many of the reasons she ran the first time.
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With three years under her belt, Debnam sees the board as "incredibly cohesive."Respect for each other's opinions and knowledge has made the group flexible enough to work toward and reach consensus.That's why there appears to be such unanimity in the board's voting record.

"It's incredible what this board has accomplished," she said, pointing to a rate reduction in January that she said would not have happened without a lot of work creating a budget that would make it happen.

Debnam said she does not believe the IBEW exercises any unusual control over the board.

"I think it's been a very good working environment for them," she said.She noted the employees' good safety record and said lost-time figures are lower now than in the past."Things are working pretty good," she said.

Debnam said HEA is actively exploring alternative energy sources.

"Residential fuel cells interest me personally," she said.

In District 2, which includes the Sterling-Soldotna area, former board member Patrick Cowan of Soldotna, president and chief executive officer of Birch Ridge Golf Course, is challenging incumbent Deborah Debnam of Soldotna, who defeated Cowan in the 2001 election.
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Cowan hopes to wrest a board seat from incumbent Deb Debnam, who beat him in the election three years ago.
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DEBORAH DEBNAM

Debnam has been a member of Homer Electric Association for 10 years and has served on the board the last three.She currently is the board's secretary-treasurer and chair of the finance committee.She owns Alaska Wedding Brokers in Sterling.She worked for more than 15 years in management for Chugach Electric.

Debnam said she's running for another term for many of the reasons she ran the first time.
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With three years under her belt, Debnam sees the board as "incredibly cohesive."Respect for each other's opinions and knowledge has made the group flexible enough to work toward and reach consensus.That's why there appears to be such unanimity in the board's voting record.

"It's incredible what this board has accomplished," she said, pointing to a rate reduction in January that she said would not have happened without a lot of work creating a budget that would make it happen.

Debnam said she does not believe the IBEW exercises any unusual control over the board.

"I think it's been a very good working environment for them," she said.She noted the employees' good safety record and said lost-time figures are lower now than in the past."Things are working pretty good," she said.

Debnam said HEA is actively exploring alternative energy sources.

"Residential fuel cells interest me personally," she said."We just have to find a way to extract hydrogen from more resources to lower costs."

She also said there probably is a coal plant in HEA's future.

"There's lots of coal in Alaska," she said.

She noted that Chugach's gas supply in Beluga is running out.At a recent joint board meeting with HEA, she said Chugach gave a presentation on Agrium's cogeneration plant where the fertilizer manufacturer creates electricity for its own purposes.Chugach, she said, is interested in such projects.

In 2001, Deborah Debnam of Sterling defeated Patrick Cowan of Soldotna.
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Wednesday, Debnam emerged on top again, garnering 2,406 votes to Cowan's 1,686.
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Nugent was elected secretary-treasurer, and Debnam was selected as deputy secretary.
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For her part, Debnam said she appreciated Cowan's presence in the District 2 race.

"He is an honorable man.He will be part of HEA, I'm sure, over the next few years.He had a great interest in it and was very valuable on the line-extension task force," she said.
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Debnam, who served as secretary-treasurer during the past year, said the move was necessary to allow HEA to move rapidly if something happened requiring borrowing in excess of the current cap.

"The primary reason is that the cap isn't adequate.We're talking 1977 versus now," she said.