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Public and mayor clash over city's planned electric aggregation vendor; council advances related measures
Summary
A broker raised concerns about the city's proposed electric aggregation arrangement and possible conflicts involving a longtime consultant; the council moved two aggregation-related resolutions forward but did not adopt them.
Tom Belish, president of Buckeye Energy Brokers, told the council on Sept. 22 he supports municipal aggregation but raised ethics and procurement concerns about the city’s proposed agreement and the lack of a named company in the packet. “On the PUCO's website, every aggregator is required to be certified and that that group is not certified,” Belish said, and he criticized past practice in which one firm repeatedly won contracts without a request-for-proposal process. Belish also raised concerns about Mark Fry, identified in his remarks as the mayor of Sylvania and a consultant tied to multiple long-term…
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