Clement defeats Axford; Oakley elected PEC board president
Cristi Clement narrowly defeated Mark Axford in the Pedernales Electric Cooperative Board of Directors District 1 race and Burnet County Judge James Oakley was elected president of the co-op’s board Saturday.
Clement, of Meadowlakes, who has been on the PEC board since 2010, got 11,500 votes to 11,228 for Axford, who lives in Hoover Valley, to win a third two-year term.
In the other directors races, Paul Graf of Spring Branch defeated incumbent Larry Landaker of Wimberley and Max Hosford of Fisher to win the District 6 position and Amy S. J. Akers defeated Jeff Barton and Douglas Kadjar for the open District 7 position.
After the results of the board of directors races were announced Saturday at the PEC annual meeting in Cedar Park, the new board members elected Oakley president, Emily Pataki of Cedar Park vice president and Graf secretarfy-treasurer.