Annual Meeting Date & Information
This year’s in-person FWI Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held on Saturday, September 6, 2025 from 1-5pm at the Petroleum Club located at 3301 C St Ste 120, Anchorage, AK 99503.
Call for Nominations
If you are interested in running for a seat on the board, there is one 3 year term seat up for election. The call for nominations opens on June 3rd, 2025, with a return deadline of July 1st, 2025.
Eligibility:
Our Articles provide that to be eligible for a seat, you must be a voting Shareholder of Far West, Inc. village corporation and at least eighteen (18) years or older. A person is disqualified from serving as a director if that person has, at any time within the last fifteen (15) years prior to elections or appointment:
- Been declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be mentally incapable of caring for oneself or a danger to others by reason of mental illness or physical incapacity;
- Been convicted of, plead guilty, or plead nolo contendere to a felony or a crime of moral turpitude;
- Been found liable for, or confessed judgment for commission of fraud or conversion;
- Owed an outstanding judgment issued in favor of the corporation;
- Been directed or ordered by any court or other lawful authority to enroll or participate in an alcohol or drug rehabilitation program and did not successfully complete such program;
- Been prohibited by any court or other lawful authority from engaging in any insurance business, securities business, commodities futures business, mortgage banking business, banking, savings and loan, or credit union business, or gaming or wagering business;
- Been found by any court or other lawful authority to have committed a breach of trust, a breach of fiduciary duty, or fraud upon creditors, insurers, employers, or consumers;
- Been removed from the position of director or other officer of any other Corporation;
- Been found by any court or other lawful authority to have been a cause for any disciplinary action imposed upon a business entity;
- Had a license to practice law, public accounting, medicine, or pharmacy revoked by a court, regulatory or administrative authority or official, or arbitral official based on any finding of misconduct, incompetence, or gross negligence;
- Been found by a court, regulatory, administrative authority or official, or arbitral body (or admitted in a proceeding to have materially breached a confidentiality agreement with the Corporation.
(Far West, Inc. Fifth Amended and Restated Bylaws, Article IV, Section 3)
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