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RESOLUTION NO. 2000- 02 <br />INTRODUCED BY: Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole <br />AN EMERGENCY RESOLUTION <br />EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE COUNCIL <br />AND THE MAYOR URGING THE PUBLIC <br />UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OHIO TO ENCOURAGE <br />GOVERNMENTAL ELECTRICITY AGGREGATION <br />WHEREAS, the Village and its residents and businesses are customers of <br />FirstEnergy Corp. and pay among the highest electric rates in the State of Ohio; <br />WHEREAS, the Ohio Legislature has enacted electric deregulation legislation (S.B. <br />No. 3) which allows for the aggregation of retail electrical loads by municipal corporations, <br />townships and counties, individually or jointly, to facilitate for those loads the purchase and <br />sale of electricity; and <br />WHEREAS, governmental aggregation provides an opportunity for residential and <br />small business customers collectively to participate in the potential benefits of electricity <br />deregulation through lower electric rates which they would not otherwise be able to do <br />individually; and <br />WHEREAS, governmental aggregation may provide an attractive structure for <br />electric utilities to achieve an adequate customer switching rate in certain customer classes <br />as required by the legislation; and <br />WHEREAS, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio ("PUCO") is currently <br />implementing the electric deregulation legislation and this Council recommends and urges <br />that the PUCO encourage the development of governmental aggregation by adopting rules <br />and policies that will facilitate such aggregation. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF MAYFIELD <br />VILLAGE, OHIO, THAT: <br />Section 1. The Council recommends and urges that the PUCO adopt policies in its <br />rules and orders that encourage governmental aggregation, including, without limitation, <br />considering the issues of its legal authority, if any, over "home rule" municipal corporations, <br />the need to avoid unlawful, unnecessary or duplicative regulation over governmental <br />aggregators, the need to provide shopping credit "incentives" for governmental aggregation, <br />the need to protect ratepayers against over recovery of transition costs by Ohio electric <br />utilities and other policies to enable this community's citizens to take advantage of electric <br />deregulation through aggregation.