Garrick Combs invited Kevin Bonds, to speak to the Brookhaven Servitium Club about the company and the role they play in Brookhaven along with future plans to build a facility in Linbrook Industrial Park.

Southwest Electric announced at is 2018 annual meeting the intent to build a district office in the Brookhaven area, and its board of directors initiated the process to search for Lincoln County properties. The company’s headquarters has been in Lorman in Jefferson County since it incorporated in 1937. A Work Center was opened in Natchez in 2006. “We are pleased to take the next step in this process with Linbrook,” said Southwest Electric CEO Kevin Bonds. “Our employees strive every day to provide reliable electric service to our members. Having a district office on this side of our service area will help us in that mission.”

The proposed office will allow staff, material and equipment to be distributed across the service area. The Brookhaven location will enable Southwest Electric to better serve members in all nine counties the electric cooperative services and to increase overall system reliability.

Bonds said the company intends to bring a dispatch office, IT services, a full warehouse, mechanic shop and truck staging area to the Brookhaven site, as well as a laydown yard — an area to house emergency storm services crews as needed.

Southwest Electric is a member-owned electric cooperative that serves more than 25,000 meters in Lincoln, Copiah, Franklin, Amite, Adams, Claiborne, Hinds, Jefferson and Wilkinson counties.