MTEMC’s Operation Round Up helps Fosterville Midland Volunteer Fire Department
Fosterville Midland volunteer firefighters, board members and members of their support unit display a replica check for $10,000 donated to the nonprofit organization by MTE Customers Care.
Middle Tennessee Electric’s Customers Care has donated $10,000 of its Operation Round Up funds to Fosterville Midland Volunteer Fire Department.
“This donation will help us replace a 1969 tanker truck with a water supplying tanker truck,” Fosterville Midland VFD Chief Steve Walker said. “A lot of the residents in our districts don’t have fire hydrants, so this is a truck we definitely need.”
The nonprofit organization provides fire and rescue services to the Fosterville and Midland communities and mutual aid to southern Rutherford and northern Bedford counties.
Operation Round Up began in November 2003 and has distributed more than $2.8 million into MTEMC’s communities.
The initiative “rounds up” members’ bills to the next highest dollar, with that extra change set aside for worthy causes. It is the responsibility of the Customers Care Board, which is composed of seven MTEMC members, to evaluate grant requests and send the money back into the communities Middle Tennessee Electric serves.
Incoming contributions are tracked by county so that the Customers Care Board can do its best to ensure money contributed by members in a certain county goes to that county. Any balances will be carried over each month.
MTE Customers Care funds may not be used for political or expressly religious purposes, schools or school-related organizations.
For more information about Customers Care and Operation Round Up, log on to www.mtemc.com or call 890-9762.
Posted on December 2, 2008.
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