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Incentives History

Over the years AEE has had a number of awards and items available to the membership for various reasons. It was not until the implementation of the Fairshare legislation that the Longevity Incentive Award Program began. January 1, 2000, was the beginning of the program that now exists today. The Association no longer had a need to recruit for members to maintain a solid membership so the Board of Directors decided to implement an incentive program for members that choose to be active within the Association. The parameters included the milestones that needed to be reached as well as the date with which the program was to become effective. AEE chose to award those active members that reached the milestones of 5, 10, 15, 20 years, or higher to receive an incentive award designated for that particular milestone.

The Association then decided to change the incentive program in 2007. The Board of Directors opted to give incentives for each 5 year anniversary of a member's Active membership.  The new changes to the Longevity Incentive program are not retroactive. These changes became effective July 1, 2007.

Prior to each quarterly board meeting, a report is pulled from the AEE membership database by looking at the prior three months to see who reached what milestone. The incentive items are then ordered and delivered to the Region Director for distribution at the Board meeting. The cut-off period covered by the report is the day after the previous Board meeting through the day of the next Board meeting. If you fall with in that time frame for reaching a milestone you will receive an incentive item.

If there are any questions please contact the AEE office and speak with the office in Salem at 503-585-6340.

Even though these incentives are given out near listed Active Membership anniversaries, you can also arrange to purchase these through your AEE Director or the AEE Office if you like.