For convenience, a brochure is being mailed with the newsletter. To become a member you complete an application, indicate that you are an MEC member (your family automatically becomes eligible also), pay a $1.00 membership fee (which is lifetime even if you move away), and put a minimum $25.00 deposit into savings. To open a checking account you must maintain a minimum $100.00 balance in savings. A $4.00 per month service charge applies to those interest bearing checking accounts that fall below a $1,000 minimum balance in any month, and to non-interest bearing checking accounts that fall below a $500.00 minimum balance. Checks are available only in duplicate style, because cancelled checks are not returned by the bank. If you ever need to produce a photocopy of a cancelled check they will provide it for a fee. For more information drop in at the Ukiah main office at 526 South State Street, or call 468-0161.
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