Gill to fill unexpired term on co-op board

There’s a new face on the Coastal Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive Board of Directors—Joseph Fill­more Gill IV of Flem­ing.

A direc­tor search com­mit­tee select­ed Gill in April to com­plete the unex­pired term of the late Jack Waters, who passed away in Decem­ber. Gill attend­ed his first board meet­ing in May.

A life­long res­i­dent of Lib­er­ty Coun­ty, Gill has deep-root­ed fam­i­ly ties with the co-op, as his great-grand­fa­ther also served on the board.

“I have always admired, respect­ed and wit­nessed first­hand the val­ues of Coastal Elec­tric,” Gill says. “Even as a child attend­ing Annu­al Meet­ings with my father, Coastal Electric’s com­mit­ment to the com­mu­ni­ty was evi­dent to me by the pro­fes­sion­al per­for­mance in our com­mu­ni­ty and the gen­eros­i­ty giv­en back by its mem­bers. … The elec­tric coop­er­a­tive has built a sus­tain­able and remark­able cul­ture in our com­mu­ni­ty, and one that I hope to con­tin­ue and be a part of with my lead­er­ship abil­i­ties.”

In his career, Gill serves as senior vice pres­i­dent of Envi­rovac Hold­ings LLC, where his com­mit­ment to safe­ty result­ed in the com­pa­ny earn­ing an Occu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Admin­is­tra­tion (OSHA) Star rat­ing and deemed the safest indus­tri­al clean­ing con­trac­tor for more than 10 years.

He earned a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in con­struc­tion from Geor­gia South­ern Uni­ver­si­ty and is involved in the Amer­i­can Angus Asso­ci­a­tion, Mount Olivet Church, Out­door Dream Foun­da­tion and Water­jet Tech­nol­o­gy Asso­ci­a­tion.

He and his wife, Tyre, have two daugh­ters, Gri­er and Mae.

“We are a coop­er­a­tive with core val­ues of integri­ty, account­abil­i­ty, inno­va­tion and com­mit­ment to com­mu­ni­ty,” says Coastal Elec­tric CEO Chris Fettes. “Many of you know Mr. Joe Gill and will under­stand that he also upholds these same val­ues. He is excit­ed and hum­bled to help guide Coastal Elec­tric into the future.”