COMMUNITY
REINVESTMENT ACT
The Federal Community
Reinvestment Act (CRA) requires the Office of Thrift Supervision to
evaluate our performance in helping to meet the credit needs of this
community, and to take this evaluation into account when deciding on
certain applications submitted by us. Your involvement is encouraged.
You may obtain our
current CRA statement for our local and entire community at our office
or view the statement online.
You may send signed,
written comments about our CRA statement or our performance in helping
to meet community credit needs to:
Mr. James E. McMullen
II
President
The Equitable Savings and Loan Company
114 South Main Street
PO Box 267
Cadiz, Ohio 43907-0267
And to:
The Office Of
Thrift Supervision
Central Regional Office
1 South Wacker Drive, Suite 2000
Chicago, Il 60606
Your letter together
with any response by us, may be made public.
You may look at
a file of all signed, written comments received by us within the past
two years, any responses we have made to the comments and all our CRA
statements in effect during the past two years at our office located
at 114 South Main Street, Cadiz, Ohio 43907.
You may ask to look
at any comments received by the district director.
You may also request
from the Office of Thrift Supervision, an announcement of applications
covered by the CRA filed with the Office of Thrift Supervision.
You may obtain the
public section of our most recent CRA performance evaluation, which
was prepared by the Office Of Thrift Supervision at this office located
at 114 South Main Street, Cadiz, Ohio 43907.
COMMUNITY
REINVESTMENT ACT STATEMENT
ASSESSMENT AREA
The Equitable Savings
and Loan Company, Cadiz, Ohio, for purposes of lending under this act
defines our assessment area as the County of Harrison, in the State
of Ohio. A map of Harrison County is in the Community Reinvestment Act
public file and is available to the public.
TYPES OF LOAN
OFFERED
1.) 1-4 Family Dwelling
Units
2.) Residential Farm
3.) Residential Construction Loans
4.) Open End Advances for Home Improvement and Other Purposes
5.) Student Loans
6.) Loans on Deposits
It has been the
policy of this Institution to make real estate loans throughout our
local community.
We maintain consistent
contact with real estate agents and developers in order to help determine
the credit needs of our local community. We are a member of the Harrison
Regional Chamber of Commerce and Cadiz Business Association. We are
active in local organizations such as Lions Club, Rotary Club, The Clark
Cable Foundation Inc., Harrison Community Hospital Board, etc. We cooperate
to the best of our ability with community groups, local government,
and housing development agencies. This Company supports the Metro Housing
Authority in their efforts to obtain housing for the elderly.
This Company has
refinanced mortgages for numerous customers having loans with The Farmers
Home Administration in order to help their credit needs and to cooperate
with the F.H.A.
This Company does
not discriminate on a precluded basis and have trained our staff and
have prepared loan underwriting standards to this effect.
The Equitable Savings
and Loan Company has one office and no branch offices. This Company
is located at 114 South Main Street, Cadiz, Ohio and, is available to
the public six days a week, Monday through Saturday, for a total of
thirty two hours a week. The office hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; Wednesday and Saturday, 9:00 a.m.
to 12:00 noon.