SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION
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Section 240.14a-12
IDAHO POWER COMPANY
(Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter)
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Exchange Act Rule 14a-6(i)(3).
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April 5, 1996
Dear Fellow Shareholder:
Shortly you may receive a proxy solicitation from the
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 99R (UFCW) seeking your
proxy on a resolution the UFCW is expected to present at the 1996
Annual Meeting recommending that Idaho Power Company (Company)
extend its policy of confidential voting.
The UFCW proxy solicitation has nothing to do with the
Company. The UFCW's dispute is with Albertson's, Inc., a large
national grocery chain headquartered in Boise. John Carley,
Chairman of Albertson's Executive Committee, is on the Company's
Board of Directors. The UFCW is trying to put pressure on the
Company to influence Albertson's in its dispute with the UFCW. If
you read the UFCW's proxy solicitation materials, you will see that
the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has required them to
acknowledge this in their materials.
DO NOT SIGN OR RETURN THE UFCW's PROXY CARD--
SIMPLY THROW IT AWAY.
Approximately one week after you receive the UFCW's proxy
solicitation materials, you will receive resolicitation proxy
materials from the Company. These resolicitation materials will
ask that you revote FOR the two proposals listed in the Company's
initial proxy statement--Board of Director nominees and independent
auditors--and vote AGAINST the UFCW proposal. The SEC has required
the Company to follow this procedure so long as the UFCW delivers
solicitation materials to the holders of a majority of the
Company's shares entitled to vote. We ask you to please take the
time and vote the Company's second proxy. We apologize for any
confusion or inconvenience this may cause you.
If you have any questions, please contact our solicitor,
Beacon Hill Partners, Inc., at 1-800-854-9486.
Very respectfully,
(Joseph W. Marshall)
Joseph W. Marshall
Chairman of the Board and CEO<PAGE>
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April 5, 1996
Dear Fellow Employee:
Shortly you may receive a proxy solicitation from the
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 99R (UFCW) seeking your
proxy on a resolution the UFCW is expected to present at the 1996
Annual Meeting recommending that Idaho Power Company (Company)
extend its policy of confidential voting.
The UFCW proxy solicitation has nothing to do with the
Company. The UFCW's dispute is with Albertson's, Inc., a large
national grocery chain headquartered in Boise. John Carley,
Chairman of Albertson's Executive Committee, is on the Company's
Board of Directors. The UFCW is trying to put pressure on the
Company to influence Albertson's in its dispute with the UFCW. If
you read the UFCW's proxy solicitation materials, you will see that
the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has required them to
acknowledge this in their materials.
DO NOT SIGN OR RETURN THE UFCW's PROXY CARD--
SIMPLY THROW IT AWAY.
Approximately one week after you receive the UFCW's proxy
solicitation materials, you will receive resolicitation proxy
materials from the Company. These resolicitation materials will
ask that you revote FOR the two proposals listed in the Company's
initial proxy statement--Board of Director nominees and independent
auditors--and vote AGAINST the UFCW proposal. The SEC has required
the Company to follow this procedure so long as the UFCW delivers
solicitation materials to the holders of a majority of the
Company's shares entitled to vote. We ask you to please take the
time and vote the Company's second proxy. We apologize for any
confusion or inconvenience this may cause you.
If you have any questions, please contact our solicitor,
Beacon Hill Partners, Inc., at 1-800-854-9486.
Very respectfully,
(Joseph W. Marshall)
Joseph W. Marshall
Chairman of the Board and CEO
