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Chattahoochee High School receives
grant from Flint Energies Foundation
grant from Flint Energies Foundation
The Family and Consumer Sciences (formerly Home Economics) Department provides classroom instruction to help students develop academic and technical skills that they will need for home/family life, further education and employment.
In 2001, Flint Energies adopted this uniquely simple and rewarding way to enable members to raise money for local charities and service organizations - Operation Round Up(r). The electric cooperative's members contribute nearly $300,000 annually to the Flint Energies Foundation, which supports worthy causes in the 16 counties it serves. Operation Roundup(r) is a way for members to add voluntarily to those funds in their own unique way.
Participating members allow Flint Energies to "round-up" their bill to the nearest dollar. For example, if a bill is $92.71, a member will pay $93, with all 29 cents going directly to the Flint Energies Foundation. On average, a member will contribute $6 a year, but never more than $11.88. If a member decides not to participate or chooses to discontinue contributions at any time, they may simply contact Flint Energies. Nearly 80% of Flint's members have chosen to participate. Donations to Operation Round Up(r) are tax deductible and members receive a summary of contributions in future January and February bills.
The Flint Energies Foundation Board of Directors disburses all contributions to approved, worthy projects. Member contributions are not used for administration costs. The Foundation is a state-chartered, non-profit, 501(c) foundation. Foundation Board members include Chairman Carol Glasgow, Warner Robins; Vice Chairman Fred Jarrell, Reynolds; Secretary Joanne Hamlin, Lizella; Treasurer Jane Hobbs, Oglethorpe; Mike Huckabee, Fort Valley; Charmaine Palmer, Kathleen; Dozier Blackstock, Henderson; Connie McCutcheon, Midland; Pat Bartness, Warner Robins; George West, Kathleen; and Ronnie Morgan, Buena Vista.
Palmetto Electric Cooperative in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, began Operation Roundup(r), in 1989. Since that time, 154 other electric membership cooperatives nationwide have chosen to adopt the program. Funding applications are available by contacting Flint Energies at 1.800.342.3616 or visiting the Community & Education Section of www.flintenergies.com.
Incorporated in 1937, Flint Energies is an electric membership cooperative that provides energy services to residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural members in parts of 17 central Georgia counties. Flint has 230 employees and serves more than 250,000 Georgians through more than 76,600 meters. Flint's physical plant consists of nearly 6,100 miles of distribution line and 49 substations located within Bibb, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Dooly, Harris, Houston, Macon, Marion, Monroe, Muscogee, Peach, Schley, Sumter, Taylor, Talbot, Twiggs and Upson Counties. The system also includes the Fort Benning military post. Flint is the seventh largest of Georgia's 42 EMCs and the 34th largest of the nation's nearly 1,000 rural electric cooperatives.
