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4	4	HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 597
5	5	By Russell
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8	8	HJR0597
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12	12	A RESOLUTION to honor Fort Loudoun Electric Cooperative on
13	13	the occasion of its eighty-fifth anniversary.
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15	15	WHEREAS, the members of this General Assembly take great pleasure in recognizing
16	16	an organization that has helped bring prosperity and opportunity to the citizens of East
17	17	Tennessee for the past eighty-five years; and
18	18	WHEREAS, in the 1930s, nine of ten rural farms in Tennessee were without electricity,
19	19	and the costs associated with procuring and retaining this life-changing resource were
20	20	unbearable for most; and
21	21	WHEREAS, concerned citizens living in the rural parts of Blount, Loudon, McMinn,
22	22	Meigs, Monroe, and Roane counties came together on August 16 and August 19 of 1940 at the
23	23	Madisonville City Hall with a vision to found an electric cooperative in accordance with
24	24	legislation passed by the General Assembly in 1935 and 1939; and
25	25	WHEREAS, by purchasing some of the electric lines serving Madisonville from the
26	26	Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and the Tennessee Utilities Company, the Loudon County
27	27	Electric Corporation could serve its first members; and
28	28	WHEREAS, by the adoption of Articles of Conversion at the Loudon County Courthouse,
29	29	the Loudon County Electric Corporation was renamed Fort Loudoun Electric Cooperative
30	30	(FLEC) to more accurately represent the region where its potential members lived and worked;
31	31	and
32	32	WHEREAS, as a private, nonprofit organization owned by its membership, FLEC has
33	33	worked with other utilities and the TVA over the years to provide electric service to its members
34	34	under a least-cost management philosophy; and
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39	39	WHEREAS, FLEC is one of the electric cooperatives that deliver power to seventy-two
40	40	percent of Tennessee's landmass at rates thirty-seven percent below the national average; and
41	41	WHEREAS, FLEC currently serves portions of three counties (Blount, Loudon, and
42	42	Monroe) in Tennessee and has grown from serving 364 members with thirty miles of electric
43	43	lines in 1941 to serving more than 36,350 members over 3,100 miles of distribution lines today;
44	44	and
45	45	WHEREAS, growing with the area it serves so tirelessly, FLEC now has a 750 square-
46	46	mile service territory that includes a small portion of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
47	47	and the Cherokee National Forest in combination with the beauty associated with the shorelines
48	48	of portions of the Fort Loudoun and Tellico reservoirs established by TVA to help meet the
49	49	energy and economic growth needs of the area; now, therefore,
50	50	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE HUNDRED
51	51	FOURTEENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, THE SENATE
52	52	CONCURRING, that we recognize and honor Fort Loudoun Electric Cooperative on the
53	53	occasion of its eighty-fifth anniversary and thank its board of directors, management, and
54	54	employees for their ongoing commitment to providing quality electric service at low rates to its
55	55	members in East Tennessee.
56	56	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an appropriate copy of this resolution be prepared
57	57	for presentation with this final clause omitted from such copy and upon proper request made to
58	58	the appropriate clerk, the language appearing immediately following the State seal appear
59	59	without House or Senate designation.
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