SMECO
Kenneth W. Cross represents Charles County on SMECO’s Board of Directors. The La Plata resident is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, serving aboard the Seventh Fleet flagship USS Providence during the Vietnam conflict.
Cross worked as a district manager for Peoples Security Life Insurance in Waldorf for eight years. In 1994 he co-founded Cross & Wood and Associates and co-owned it until 2016. Most recently he was an enumerator for the U.S. Census Bureau during the 2020 census.
Active in his community, Cross is the vice president of the Jude House board and a member of the legislative committee of the Charles County Chamber of Commerce. He served as the board president for the Center for Children and Alternatives for Youth and Family. Cross is a graduate of the Citizens Police Academy offered by the Charles County Sheriff’s Office’s.
Cross was elected to the Board in August 2021. He serves on the Public Relations Committee and the Policy, Audit, and Budget Committee.
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SMECO
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative was founded in 1937. Through the Rural Electrification Administration, the co-op received a loan of $165,000 to construct 175 miles of line to serve 600 customer-members. SMECO operated a generating plant at Popes Creek, Maryland, from 1938 to 1953. SMECO has had five general managers: 1938, Forrest Coakley; 1974, Walter H. Smith; 1989, I. Wayne Swann; 2003, Austin J. Slater, Jr.; and 2020, Sonja Cox. As of January 2020, SMECO served 165,000 customers and is one of the largest electric co-ops in the country. SMECO serves all of Charles and St. Mary's counties, the southern portion of Prince George's County, and all but the northeast portion of Calvert County.