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Council adopts electric-aggregation renewal, emergency wheel-loader purchase and backs state Issue 2; second reading delayed
Summary
Defiance City Council on March 25 approved renewal of its electric-aggregation certification, approved an emergency purchase of a wheel loader, and passed a resolution supporting the proposed state capital-improvement ballot issue; a separate ordinance (chapter 109) was tabled to a third reading.
Defiance City Council members voted March 25 to renew the city’s electric-aggregation certification with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, to authorize an emergency purchase of a wheel loader for the streets department and to adopt a resolution supporting the May 6 statewide ballot issue known as State Issue 2. A separate ordinance amending chapter 109 of the city’s qualified ordinances was postponed to a third reading.
The electric-aggregation ordinance authorizes staff to file the city’s renewal application with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio before the June 21 deadline. City attorney O’Donnell told council that Section 4928.08(C) requires competitive retail electric service providers to renew certification biennially and that…
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