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Council approves 36-month electricity contract for city properties after brief legal and auditor review
Summary
Council approved a 36-month electricity purchase contract for city-owned properties with Interstate Gas Supply LLC, suspending rules for immediate award; auditors and the law director flagged contract language and fiscal certification issues to be resolved administratively.
Findlay City Council on an emergency vote approved an ordinance authorizing the mayor and administrative officers to enter into an electricity purchase contract and master service agreement with Interstate Gas Supply LLC (IGS) for city-owned properties, locking in a roughly 36-month fixed rate around 6¢ per kilowatt-hour for the specified sites.
Council Member Wernicke moved to suspend the rules and give the ordinance second and third readings; Council Member Palmer seconded the motion. After discussion, the council voted to adopt the ordinance and authorized the administration to finalize and sign the contract, subject to resolving contract language and fiscal-office requirements raised by the auditor and law director.
Staff said the procurement was the result of a formal bidding process with consultants and that the 36-month fixed-rate option offered a favorable price point compared with near-term market forecasts; staff reported the rate was only guaranteed for a 24-hour quote window during bidding and asked council to approve under emergency to secure the rate. The packet included a list of city-owned sites to be covered, including water and sewer plant lift stations.
Auditor Stasiak and Law Director Feitner raised concerns on the record about missing or unspecified contract terms and whether the auditor's fiscal officer certificate would allow payment without particular language. Auditor Stasiak said a valid contract requires a fiscal officer certificate and that the city could not authorize certain open-ended damage obligations without clearer limits; Feitner and administration staff said they would work with the auditor and the vendor to insert satisfactory contract language before executing the agreement. Mayor and administrative staff stated that the ordinance authorizes the administration to finalize a contract that meets auditor and legal requirements and that they would not sign an agreement that the auditor could not approve.
Council members voting recorded aye during roll call; the transcript records that the ordinance passed after the administration committed to resolving the contract language and fiscal certification issues prior to execution.
