Bill Text: OR SCR13 | 2011 | Regular Session | Enrolled

Oregon Senate Concurrent Resolution 13 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Honoring Eugene Water & Electric Board for 100 years of utility service.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6)

Status: (Passed) 2011-05-10 - Filed With Secretary of State. [SCR13 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-SCR13-Enrolled.html



     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

                            Enrolled

                 Senate Concurrent Resolution 13

Sponsored by Senators EDWARDS, PROZANSKI, Representatives
  BARNHART, HOLVEY, HOYLE, NATHANSON

  Whereas the Eugene Water & Electric Board, Oregon's largest
consumer-owned utility, will celebrate its 100th year of
operations on March 11, 2011; and
  Whereas in 1908 Eugene voters approved $300,000 in bonds to
purchase and reform the local private water utility following a
typhoid fever epidemic; and
  Whereas the Walterville Hydroelectric Plant on the McKenzie
River was constructed in 1911 to power pumps and ensure adequate
water pressure, leading to the sale of surplus power to Eugene
and the subsequent acquisition of the local private electric
utility; and
  Whereas the Eugene Water & Electric Board has invested in
clean, affordable and reliable electricity through projects such
as Leaburg Dam, the Carmen-Smith Hydroelectric Project, the
Federal Columbia River Power System, and the Foote Creek,
Stateline, Klondike and Harvest Wind Farms; and
  Whereas the Eugene Water & Electric Board made an early
commitment to energy conservation in 1976, having weatherized
over 42,000 homes since then and annually investing five percent
of retail revenues in conservation programs; and
  Whereas the Eugene Water & Electric Board has saved its
customers almost 500 million kilowatt hours of power usage
through its robust conservation efforts; and
  Whereas the Eugene Water & Electric Board has earned several
local, regional and national awards for best-tasting and cleanest
water from the McKenzie River; and
  Whereas the Eugene Water & Electric Board adopted a ' Customer
Care' program in 1986 to provide a wide range of assistance to
low-income customers having difficulty paying their utility
bills, helping on average 4,000 customers annually; and
  Whereas the Eugene Water & Electric Board in 2009 and 2010
invested more than $10 million back into the community to help
customers affected by the economic downturn pay their utility
bills; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:

  That we, the members of the Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly,
in legislative session assembled, recognize, honor and celebrate
on behalf of all Oregonians the 100 years of dedicated service of
the Eugene Water & Electric Board to the customers to whom it
provides safe, clean and reliable water and electricity; and be
it further
  Resolved, That a copy of this resolution shall be presented to
the Eugene Water & Electric Board of Commissioners.
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Enrolled Senate Concurrent Resolution 13 (SCR 13-INTRO)    Page 1

                                Adopted by Senate March 14, 2011

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                                   Robert Taylor, Secretary of
                                             Senate

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                                  Peter Courtney, President of
                                             Senate

                                  Adopted by House May 5, 2011

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                                  Bruce Hanna, Speaker of House

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                                 Arnie Roblan, Speaker of House

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