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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 | | SouthEastern Illinois Electric Cooperative on the 75th |
| 5 | | anniversary of their cooperative; and
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| 6 | | WHEREAS, SouthEastern Illinois Electric Cooperative was |
| 7 | | officially formed on October 5, 1938 in Harrisburg, Illinois, |
| 8 | | through the hard work and dedication of a handful of local |
| 9 | | residents wanting to improve living and farming conditions for |
| 10 | | themselves 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 SouthEastern |
| 20 | | Illinois Electric Cooperative 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 SouthEastern Illinois |
| 2 | | Electric Cooperative's lines were first energized on January |
| 3 | | 24, 1940, initially serving 300 member-owners in Saline County; |
| 4 | | and
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, SouthEastern Illinois Electric Cooperative |
| 6 | | continues to provides reliable electric
service to |
| 7 | | member-owners in Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, |
| 8 | | Johnson, Massac, Pope, Saline, White, and Williamson counties; |
| 9 | | and
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| 10 | | WHEREAS, For 75 years, the cooperative has served its |
| 11 | | member-owners based on 7 guiding principles: voluntary and open |
| 12 | | membership, member-elected and controlled boards of directors, |
| 13 | | members' economic participation, autonomy and independence, |
| 14 | | education and training, cooperation among cooperatives, and |
| 15 | | concern for community; therefore, be it
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| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
| 17 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
| 18 | | we congratulate the members of the SouthEastern Illinois |
| 19 | | Electric Cooperative on the 75th anniversary of their |
| 20 | | cooperative; and be it further
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| 21 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
| 22 | | presented to SouthEastern Illinois Electric Cooperative as a |