Bill Text: IL HR0423 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates the Western Illinois Electrical Coop. on its 75th anniversary.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-30 - Resolution Adopted [HR0423 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HR0423-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the members of | ||||||
| 4 | Western Illinois Electrical Coop. on the 75th anniversary of | ||||||
| 5 | their cooperative; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Western Illinois Electrical Coop. was officially | ||||||
| 7 | formed on August 1, 1938 in
Carthage, Illinois, through the | ||||||
| 8 | hard work and dedication of a handful of local residents | ||||||
| 9 | wanting to improve living and farming conditions for themselves | ||||||
| 10 | and their neighbors; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Because of the lack of density, it simply wasn't | ||||||
| 12 | possible for the for-profit utilities to make a profit serving | ||||||
| 13 | rural areas with only a few farms or homes per mile of electric | ||||||
| 14 | line; with the help of loans from the Rural Electrification | ||||||
| 15 | Administration (REA), the people living in these rural areas | ||||||
| 16 | banded together to form member-owned and member-governed | ||||||
| 17 | electric cooperatives; and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, This group of local residents went door to door | ||||||
| 19 | signing up their neighbors to become members of Western | ||||||
| 20 | Illinois Electrical Coop. and convincing them that a | ||||||
| 21 | cooperative would bring lights and power to the rural area; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Their hard work paid off and Western Illinois | ||||||
| 2 | Electrical Coop.'s lines were first energized on January 10, | ||||||
| 3 | 1940, initially serving 716 member-owners in Hancock County; | ||||||
| 4 | and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Western Illinois Electrical Coop. continues to | ||||||
| 6 | provides reliable electric
service to member-owners in Adams, | ||||||
| 7 | Hancock, Henderson, and McDonough counties; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, For 75 years, the cooperative has served its | ||||||
| 9 | member-owners based on 7 guiding principles: voluntary and open | ||||||
| 10 | membership, member-elected and controlled boards of directors, | ||||||
| 11 | members' economic participation, autonomy and independence, | ||||||
| 12 | education and training, cooperation among cooperatives, and | ||||||
| 13 | concern for community; therefore, be it
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| 14 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 15 | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 16 | we congratulate the members of the Western Illinois Electrical | ||||||
| 17 | Coop. on the 75th anniversary of their cooperative; and be it | ||||||
| 18 | further
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| 19 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 20 | presented to Western Illinois Electrical Coop. as a symbol of | ||||||
| 21 | our esteem and respect.
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