Your Voice, Your Credit Union: Cast Your Vote
At Wright-Patt Credit Union® (WPCU®), you’re part of a cooperative, not a bank. That means we need your input on who serves on our Board of Directors.
Why Your Vote Matters
When you vote, you take part in the future of the cooperative by:
- Electing Your Leadership: The Board sets the vision, strategy, and policies that impact you and your credit union.
- Validating Our Purpose: Approving the Annual Meeting Minutes ensures we’re going in the right direction, and that we remain transparent and accountable to you.
- Driving Our Mission: Your vote helps keep WPCU focused on helping you and your family through life.
Make your voice heard. It only takes a few minutes to help shape the next year of WPCU.
Meet the Candidates and Review the Minutes
To Vote Online, click here or click the link at the top of this page, then:
- Identify Yourself: Enter either your 13-digit WPCU TrueSaver® member/account number or your personal election ID (PID).
- You can find your PID in any of the WPCU Board Election email reminders you received from CU Ballot on our behalf. (View a sample version of that email here.) If you receive paper statements, it is also located at the top of the paper ballot included within your December statement.
- Verify: Enter the last 5 digits of your Social Security/Tax ID Number or EIN.
- If an Alternate ID number is included within in your election email (or on your paper ballot), use that in lieu of a SSN or EIN.
- Cast your ballot: Follow the simple online prompts to make your selection.
- Online voting will be open until March 11, 2026. Online voting will also reopen briefly for live voting during the beginning of the WPCU Annual Meeting on March 25, 2026.
To Submit Your Paper Ballot:
- Sign your ballot. Paper ballots without a signature will not be accepted.
- Send your ballot by USPS mail using the enclosed blue envelope.
- Note: Ballots will NOT be accepted at credit union offices, including night depositories or drop boxes.
Paper ballots must be RECEIVED by March 11, 2026.
Wright-Patt Credit Union uses a governance model where Board candidates are not running against each other. To be elected, each candidate must receive a majority of “For” votes from members.
- Candidates receiving a majority of "For" votes are elected to the board of directors for a three-year term.
- Candidates receiving a majority of "Withhold support" votes are not elected. That seat remains vacant until a new candidate is identified.
- As part of the election process, you also vote to approve the minutes of the previous year's Annual Meeting, which helps to validate the direction of your credit union.
We’re always looking for dedicated members to help shape the future of Wright-Patt Credit Union! The best way to begin is by applying to be in our Associate Director program, which serves as a pipeline for future Board leadership.
To learn more about the specific qualifications, responsibilities, and the selection process, please visit our Associate Director Application page.
Frequently Asked Questions
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As a financial cooperative owned by its members, WPCU is governed by a nine-member board of directors that oversees WPCU’s mission of helping members through life. It’s a big job with lots of responsibility …. board members are engaged in a wide range of duties including setting the vision, mission, and strategy of the credit union, selecting a president/CEO, establishing appropriate internal controls, and ensuring the credit union operates in accordance with federal and state law. Board members also have a legal and fiduciary responsibility to protect member-owned assets and ensure the credit union is financially sound with appropriate safety reserves.
The best directors understand the credit union philosophy and have a real desire to better the financial lives of members. They possess the ability to think strategically, understand financial reporting and oversight, and can carry out their legal duties of care and loyalty to WPCU. Perhaps most importantly, they put the collective interests of WPCU members ahead of any personal ambitions and they provide expertise and experience for overseeing a complex and highly regulated financial operation. Directors spend significant time preparing for and attending meetings and regularly participate in continuing education to expand their understanding of today’s complex financial marketplace.
Because of the depth of responsibility required of a credit union director and in order to attract qualified candidates with the experience and expertise to oversee complicated financial operations, the Ohio Revised Code permits directors of state-chartered credit unions to receive a stipend for their service. Accordingly, WPCU directors receive a stipend of $1,200 per month for their service on behalf of members. The chair of the board receives a stipend of $1,400 per month.
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You are eligible to participate in the upcoming election if you:
- Joined WPCU by October 31, 2025
- Have a personal, business, employee, family, custodian or representative payee account
- Are age 16 or older as of October 31, 2025
- Have a minimum $5 in your TrueSaver® savings account
- Do not have any charge-offs or delinquent accounts as of October 31, 2025
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Nothing at all! Simply keep an eye out in your inbox and/or mailbox this month. We will take care of the rest.
When you receive your WPCU Board Election email or ballot in the mail, be sure to open it to obtain your Personal Election ID (PID). You will need this to cast your vote online. If you miss the first election email, don't worry. Reminder emails will be sent out weekly through the election period. Remember, you will receive your WPCU Board Election email from CUBallot, our trusted third-party electronic voting vendor.
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We're here to help! Simply contact us here or call us at (800) 762-0047.