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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 24, 2024

2024 IMUA Scholarship Program Applications Available
The City of Rock Falls, in partnership with the Illinois Municipal Utilities Association (IMUA), is again offering a scholarship competition program for eligible high school seniors. Each eligible applicant is asked to submit an application and an essay of 500 words or less addressing their choice of one of five utility-related questions.
The top four (4) vote-getters in this year’s essay competition will receive a finalist certificate and a $1,000 scholarship award check from IMUA.
          Applicants must be high school seniors whose parents or legal guardians are residential customers of the City of Rock Falls Municipal Utility.
          According to Dick Simon, superintendent for the City of Rock Falls Electric Department, the program has a dual purpose: 1) to promote and recognize scholastic achievement; and, 2) to create greater awareness among young adults of the many
issues facing consumers and public power municipalities today.
          “Today’s energy providers, including municipally-owned and operated utilities, continue to face a myriad of economic, energy, environmental and other challenges which warrant creative and innovative solutions,” Simon said. “Creating a greater awareness of these issues among tomorrow’s leaders can be the first step in helping to determine effective, long-term solutions, both now and into the future,” he added.
          “Since its inception in 2000, IMUA’s scholarship program has proven to be a very popular and successful program for IMUA, its members and the communities they serve,” said Kevin M. Gaden, President & CEO of the IMUA. “Public power communities offer their customers a number of cost, efficiency, service and other advantages compared to those served by other energy providers. IMUA’s scholarship program is another example of how municipally-owned and operated utility systems can help return value to their communities while at the same time, provide a measure of financial assistance and support to those students who wish to pursue a college education.”
          Since it began, the program has awarded $64,000 to 100 students from various IMUA member communities statewide.
          Organized in 1948, IMUA is a statewide trade association which represents the unified interests of, and provides services to, nearly 50 municipalities which operate their own electric, natural gas, telecommunications, water and wastewater treatment systems.
          The deadline for submitting applications and essays is Friday, March 8, 2024. Applicants may contact IMUA’s DeeDee Bunch at (217) 789-4632 or dbunch@imea.org for more information.

2024 IMUA Scholarship Application & Guidelines

 
 
 
 
The City of Rock Falls is rolling out a new public safety and information service. This service is free to all users. Simply follow the link below to sign up to receive alerts about utility outages, public safety emergencies and severe weather which may effect the city. Those who are interested can choose the type(s) of alerts they will receive; text, email, and/or voice calls.
This works much like the systems used by our schools to keep students and parent informed about closures and events.
 

 

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