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ITASCA – At their Jan. 12, meeting, HILCO Electric’s Trust Board voted to disburse $10,886.00 to five organizations in the HILCO service area.
These funds were donated during the fourth quarter of 2020.
Grant checks were presented on Tuesday, January 12th at the Itasca HILCO office. On hand to help with the presentation were HILCO Electric Board of Directors.
The following organizations were recipients of the fourth quarter funds disbursements:
Common Ground Ministries (Waxahachie): $1,000.00
Texas Ramp Project (Waxahachie): $2,000.00
Veteran’s Pardners (Waxahachie): $5,000.00
Waxahachie Senior Citizens Center, Inc. (Waxahachie): $1,886.00
Since the Operation Round Up® program began in 2001, more than $886,599.28 has been returned to communities within the HILCO service area.
This was made possible from the generosity of residential members who voluntarily opted to participate monthly in the program.
Operation Round Up® is a voluntary program in which residential members of HILCO Electric Cooperative, Inc. sign up to have their electric bills rounded upward to the next dollar.
Every month, those additional pennies, nickels and dimes are added to a special fund.
Money from that fund is then distributed to local qualifying organizations with the community.
The most any member’s account would donate in a 12-month period is $11.88.
Operation Round Up® Trust Board, is comprised of representatives from all of the HILCO districts, meets once a quarter to review applications and to decide how the funds are to be allocated.
Members may have their names added to or removed from the program by calling HILCO at 254-687-2331 or 800-338-6425.
Members can also sign up for the program online at http://hilco.coop/community-programs/operation-round-up
The next deadline for Operation Round Up® is noon, April 13.
Applications are available online at www.hilco.coop, or can be picked up at one of the four HILCO offices located at 115 E. Main in Itasca, 4581 FM 933 in Whitney, 300A Silken Crossing in Midlothian, or 298 S. Connally Drive in Elm Mott.
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