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Mayor says ODNR grant could fund south-side trails; Saturday transit service tied to tax vote
Summary
Mayor told council he will testify in Washington on community choice aggregation and said a past carbon-fee vote supports local solar initiatives; he also described an ODNR-funded trail project and said Saturday transit service could return if a proposed income-tax increase passes.
The mayor told Athens City Council on April 20 that he will testify to Congress about community choice aggregation and noted local interest in the city's 2018 carbon-fee initiative. He said he will discuss how the city’s policies allow citizens to purchase electricity or gas through aggregation and that congressional staff were interested in Athens’s prior voter-approved 0.2¢/kWh carbon fee used for municipal solar initiatives.
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