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welcome everyone to our February 11th
2025 Beckley city council meeting thank
you for joining us this evening if there
anyone in attendance that has a speaker
slip that has not already turned it into
to our auditor I ask that you do that at
this
time Mr mque would you please call the
role Mr Marcelino here M Hurley here
miss vible I'm here miss sad here Mr
lampy Miss lampy sorry I was cheating
ahead here Mr Markham and Mr Silverman
here Council uh Mr Markham let me know
earlier that he had um a personal issue
come up so he is likely not to be in
attendance this evening at this time I
move to excuse his absence could I
please have a second second second by Mr
Marcelino all in favor say I I anyone
opposed all right he is excused please
join me for the Pledge of
Allegiance United States of America and
to the for it stands
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indivisible
andice all right as Council can see we
have some very special guests in
attendance tonight uh beginning with uh
Jason fine who is the superintendent of
our Beckley City Schools he is joined
tonight by Kyle Smith who is the
treasurer for our schools um I have
asked a superintendent fine to be here
this even and to give us an overview of
what's going on in our school so welcome
thank you very much this is it's nice to
be on this side of this space uh but I
also want to take this opportunity huge
thank you we know you have a Pack
schedule Kyle Smith uh who I'll talk
about a little bit in a minute we we
just want to spend about an hour of an
update
we'll take five minutes but we also
before we do that we want to thank uh we
also want to thank you for the space we
use this space uh once a month on
Wednesday evenings we know that is an
impact on you and your schedules uh but
it is a game changer for us to invite
the community into this space especially
really important conversations but we do
we want to give a quick update on the
things that we're doing but before we do
that we have to thank our Board of
Education we're really lucky in Bexley
we have an incredible Board of just like
we have uh City Council uh it is not
easy to be a board member in 2025 it is
a challenge and it can be thankless and
we're really thankful for the five that
we have fighting for kids every day and
for our staff uh they are world class
second and none and we're really
appreciative of their
efforts want to talk just briefly we
love that the Board of Education uh
establishes a lot of uh op opportunities
for us to succeed and it starts with the
creation of our strategic plan and two
years ago we went through a really
robust process within our community uh
to create I believe a really profound
strategic plan that was community-driven
is not my strategic plan is not the
Board of Education strategic plan I
believe it is our community uh strategic
plan there is a lot to it you can find
on our website I'm not going to go
through all of it but I do love our
mission which you can see up there uh
learn with curiosity demonstrate
kindness and embrace equity and that
makes up the DNA of the beex city
schools it's who we are it's who we must
be and it's who we must model for our
students each and every day as staff
members you can see some of the great
things that are happening in our
district but we're really thankful that
the board uh helps us drive to uh
continue to be uh who we want to be with
uh our students and our staff I want to
talk about the incredible tradition of
Excellence that comes with aexy
education that is our academic uh
Excellence we're really proud of the
work we also want to make sure that we
find a real important balance for our
students uh we know that we are driven
our students are driven to be great and
to succeed but we also want to make sure
that they're balanced uh equally with
their social emotional needs and their
uh personal lives and their family time
uh but you can see some of the the stats
and facts these are just a handful there
are dozens and dozens and dozens of data
points that allow us to know that our
students are performing at high levels
uh the one that a lot of people want to
talk about is uh where the number 2
public high school in the state of Ohio
according to US News and World Report
you see our five stars on the Ohio
Department of Education again those are
one snapshot on one day that our
students give us there is a lot uh to
the educational experience of our
students we're really proud of the
academic performance of our students but
that's not the only piece of the story
what we love about beex education is all
the opportunities that our students are
afforded we'll talk about what makes
that happen a little bit later but you
can see some of the uh other things the
other piece of the story you've got
academic Excellence you've got Arts
Excellence you've got Athletics
Excellence you've got a lot of
opportunities that we provide our
students I think it's a fascinating
number 88% of our middle and high school
students participate in other activities
outside of their classroom outside of
family time outside of their friend time
and that's pretty impressive you can see
some of the stats around some of the uh
things we've done I think it's pretty
amazing we've had four state champs in
the last year in a atics uh you got
Marius Garcia who was 52-0 last year the
first state championship wrestler in 39
years I think he is now
139 and maybe 20 in his career uh he is
I think 50 and two right now he lost two
matches this year two nationally ranked
uh wrestlers that he won face in the
states so we're excited to see what he
does uh in the next couple of weeks as
he goes for a repeat Amaya Bulls you've
had in front of you she's are three
three time State Tennis champion uh
going for a fourth she's the second only
in Ohio to ever win three state titles
in a row she can become the first to win
four uh which is pretty impressive Henry
lard is our freshman he's now a
sophomore he's getting ready to gear up
for tennis this season uh to be a repeat
tennis state champ he won that as a
freshman if you want a shot at the title
in tennis you're going through Beckley
it's pretty amazing and it's impressive
we've got Jackson monus our diver he was
a freshman uh last year I'm actually
headed there as soon as I finish here uh
we have our district diving
championships going on at Ohio State uh
and I'm going to go see him just this
weekend Zeke Moses top right he was our
state champion in the Poetry out loud
competition uh he will travel to DC in
May for the Nationals we've got a
dreamers academy uh Disney dreamer uh
matd lafalette is one out of a hundred
students in Ohio uh and we've got lots
of things we you've been to our play we
had Beauty and the Beast uh over the
last couple weekends
uh it's a really fascinating thing to
watch our students flourish and do their
thing outside of the classroom we're
really proud of that
work it also doesn't happen by chance
when you have great people working with
our students and being a champion for
our students uh those are the things
that we hang our hat on and uh the
people are what make beex special the
number one indicator success of Any
Given child this is research-based the
number one indicator of success of any
child uh success
is the
teacher the second indicator of success
according to research of Any Given child
success is the school leader so you see
Dr Justin Denon he just received his
Doctorate he was invited to a National
Conference to present his Doctorate on
restorative uh practices You' seen in
the middle drone price he is our
assistant principal at the Middle School
uh he presented a national conference on
culture and kindness and then we've got
Brad petett our director of technology
and Leadership he is leading a lot of
the area uh both at the local level and
state level around technology we have
incredible people working with our
students that help them flourish and see
and reach their potential and we're
really thankful for uh that crew I'm
going to hand this to Pal Smith uh Kyle
Smith is not your typical school treasur
he is a phenomenal resource for us I'm
really thankful that Kyle Smith is in
this space uh Kyle understands the
numbers but he also understands which is
kind of unique to the position I think
that Kyle brings he understand what kids
need uh and he also understands what
staff need and he's willing to have
conversations so that we can make sure
that we uh find what we can to make sure
that our students have those resources
and he does it with great integrity
really thankful for Kyle so
Kyle thanks uh so as I was sitting back
there I realized tonight is a first um
for Dr fine and I it is the first time
that he will talk more stats than I will
in in any time together so
um but I just want to highlight a few
things about uh the financial
stewardship of the district um I want to
thank uh the the support and the
continued um Decades of support that the
communities uh provided for the schools
uh but wanted to highlight over the last
couple of couple of years we've updated
the financial website um to go from uh
just a simple blurb of what a treas does
to have monthly annual reports uh
financial news and more information on
the website um we've re are looking to
receive the state audit award for the
fifth consecutive year this year
hopefully our audit FY 24 audit will be
released soon um like the city of Bexley
we are rated in the Ohio audit uh
auditor star system uh we hope to be
awarded four of four stars and that is a
reflective of how an entity government
entity um handles the sunshine laws um
in best
practices um uh it again towards
Financial stability um if you've heard
me talk before I've talked about the
fiveyear forecast that's a semiannual
report again on on our website but that
is uh pretty much our our bread and
butter of Financial Health uh
checkup uh and we do all that not only
for uh transparency and not only because
it's the right thing to do but in the
pie chart you can see 74 and a half% of
our funding comes from local sources uh
within our within our community uh
that's typical for what you see uh in
compar Parable school districts uh when
you dive into some other figures that is
the um on a percentage basis that's the
24th highest in the State uh on a per
student uh Revenue basis that's 11th
highest in the state um neighbors of
Upper Arlington and Dublin uh are higher
on a per student uh but when you look at
per student all funding all revenue
we're
146th um and the reason we dropped there
is because the state and the federal
government provide many more resources
to other school districts and um just to
highlight that large piece of the pie
that we fund
locally
thanks so I think it's critical that um
we hang our hat on being fiscally
responsible Financial stewardship is
critical to Our Success transparency
with our community and we're really
thankful uh for the support that our
community Kyle said they for decades the
community has shown and support
uh the schools and we are thankful that
we are able to provide the types of
experiences that we're able to
facilities I'll spend a little bit of
time on this we are going through a
robust process very similar to what we
did for our strategic planning process a
community-driven conversation around
facilities on average our buildings are
84 years old and our buildings have done
a fantastic job of serving our needs
over the last century uh but the Gap is
widening in terms of what those
buildings were designed for and what our
students need today uh it is critical
that we continue through this process so
that we can ensure that our students
have a safe dry and Equitable experience
uh and we're really thankful for the
community engagement that has uh Gone on
over the last really a year we started
about a year ago January uh We've held
12 Community engagement sessions over 25
building team meetings uh we've had lots
of uh facilities uh conversations and we
are just wrapping up the options phase
that is phase two of three we are headed
into the decisions phase you can see
there in the bottom the decisions phase
is where our Board of Education will
consider the proposed plan uh we hope to
do that in maybe April or May of this
year at a an upcoming board meeting and
that will help us determine next steps
that could also include potential
funding if they accept a facilities plan
and I'll let Kyle speak to this uh if we
need more clarity if we determine and we
accept a uh facilities plan and funding
must be determined that is a
conversation that our Board of Education
will have uh later on uh and that will
be what does that look like in terms of
when uh if that is a decision that we go
when would we uh need to potentially go
to voters and what that would look like
in terms of amount so that conversation
what we are committed to is making sure
that our community knows as soon as a
decision is made but we're really proud
of the facilities process and the robust
uh engagement with our community other
big news I've had a couple of you ask me
even this evening we did purchase uh
Cassidy Avenue that is 30 Acres just
outside of Bexley part of the Strategic
plan uh which we talked about earlier
which was community-driven one of the
goals of the Strategic plan I put it
here uh there for you goal
2.2 the community as we had these
conversations and we talked about
facilities the community and the Board
of Education asked us to explore
alternative uh facilities and
Partnerships because we know that we are
limited when it comes to space space uh
and uh shared spaces and Mike I think
you know as well as anybody the stresses
that we face when we're trying to put
those 88% of our students that are
participating in uh extra activities we
are limited in terms of where we put
them and many of you have students or
have had students that participate in
athletics or other uh events and our
children are getting home at 10: p.m.
they're missing dinner they still have
to study and that's because we're
fighting over shared spaces so we're
really thankful we believe this is a
transformational opportunity for our
community to take a look at what's
possible not just for the uh the next
few years but for the next 100 years we
believe it sets us up to do things that
we need to do uh and we're really proud
of that work so we're thankful that the
Strategic plan guided us through that we
will design that as a community we do
not know what that looks like because we
will do what we've done in all of our
processes which is like the strategic
planning and the facilities that'll be a
community-driven plan to help us
identify exactly what we want uh Cassidy
to look like uh over the next several
years and
Beyond lastly probably the most
important we don't do this without the
support of a lot of people throughout
our community so we're thankful for uh
the successes that were provided because
of people like you and we appreciate
this partnership and and Ben is probably
someone that I connect with more so than
I ever thought when we took this job
I've seen other superintendants not have
a connection and a relationship with
with uh city leaders and I'm really
thankful I feel like when when stuff
gets really hard Ben is one of the first
calls Chief Lewis is one of the first
calls and I'm really thankful that that
partnership is there uh I think it
matters and it it really supports our
students so a couple folks spec the
Education Foundation Our Community
Foundation the Education Foundation uh
they are that missing factor that allows
us to provide some of those
opportunities that I think a lot of
other communities don't have access to
and we're really thankful city of Bexley
you all uh our partners our our city
leaders we're so thankful for the
partnership Bexley Parks and Recreation
uh we can't do it without you and uh we
love that that partnership happens uh
and we appreciate those opportunities
Chief Lewis and the Bexley Police
Department uh you keep answering the
phone and we really appreciate
appreciate that and uh we are better off
having the partnership that we've had
and and I feel like Chief Lewis and and
uh the mayor we're in the space more in
the last uh year or so I think since
you've arrived maybe it's two years uh
than uh I think probably long before us
and uh in my first year so I'm really
thankful for that partnership in
connection one Bexley has been a
phenomenal resource for us and I
appreciate Ben and chief Lewis and
others on the steering committee and Ben
Heckman and then lastly our community
organizations uh we've got the bmpa
we've got erbs we've got darn uh we've
got one Bexley We've Got U our Bexley
Pride our div diverse learning PTO all
of our school PTO all of these
organizations allow us to uh provide
that opportunity to be great for our
students and we're really thankful thank
you so much Dr fine for and Mr Smith for
being here tonight we're happy to take
any questions any questions from Council
Mr Marcelino yes thank you I have two
questions and then maybe a third but uh
first one is just in regards to taxes
for the uh upgrades to the facilities
which phase will the school board be
deciding how and who gets txed what when
it's so after the facility plan has been
decided the the funding decision will be
made um it'll be similar to the process
uh prior to any other school operating
Levy where the finance advisory will
kind of get involved in way different
options um as of right now the way uh
facility funding happens in Ohio for
Bexley is not going to be much different
than operating uh meaning we don't get a
ton of support for the from the state uh
for facilities um so it'll be similar um
should the community support it uh the
recommendation from the board most
likely will be similar um for local
funding um the only Co caveat to that
would be uh we're in a bayum state
budget so uh Capital planning from the
state could could look different for
schools or other entities as well thank
you I appreciate that can I yes okay
thanks um Dr fine I think this one's for
you and ask is sitting next to the CH
but uh over the years we've heard uh I
would say that there's been positivity
towards it negativity towards it but a
resource officer um I know probably more
recently than perhaps in the past we've
had some residents voice an interest in
getting a resource officer obviously I
think that starts with the school board
as a whole and what their take on it is
can you give us any uh Insight if you
feel comfortable telling us what the
current temperature is on the school
board uh for a resource officer in the
future in this sure I learned long ago I
don't speak on behalf of the board but I
will tell you that the Board of
Education made a decision on school
resource officers I believe in 2018 uh
we've had conversations with the chief
we've had conversations with the mayor
we've had conversations uh with other
city council members and our Board of
Education uh I will defer to our Board
of Education in terms of uh their stance
when it comes to uh school resource
officers I will tell you that uh we are
thankful for the partnership with our
police I will also tell you that we've
heard from students we've heard from
staff we've heard from community members
that have concerns around uh a police
officer in our buildings for that
purpose we want to be mindful of that
there is trauma there I have seen it I
have had conversations uh but we are
always willing to find out uh what is
possible and that's an important
conversation for the Board of Education
thank you can I ask one more before one
more and then let's give some thank you
I appreciate um one of the core values
you mentioned was embracing Equity
obviously there's been a lot of change
over the past several months in regards
to how the state and federal funding
looks for uh Dei initiatives Etc any
concern in regards to our funding uh
long term through either the state or
the feds I know it's a small portion but
still a consideration sure there's a lot
going on uh there's a lot happening I
answered this question I stood in front
of our staff uh yesterday morning um I'm
thankful I'm in Bexley I'm thankful I
work for the Board of Education that we
have I'm thankful to be in a community
uh that helped us create these types of
of uh commitments and what will always
remain the same is my commitment to
ensure that we love care support and
fight for every child that walks into
our buildings and staff member uh and
that is a commitment that uh Stands
Strong thank you very much yeah U Mr
Silverman you have your hand up yes
thank you um speaking on the changes
with federal and state level if there
was defunding of Education from federal
state how would that affect the most
recent operational Levy and the timeline
for the
future um we received different buckets
of federal funding uh so it may be
dependent on how they target it o
overall our uh revenues
are about 3 or 4% from the federal
government um a large chunk of that is
in special education funding um I I
think that would um if I could opine I'm
not sure how that would be um dealt with
at the state level uh you hear comments
of um Dei but there's not really many um
dollars flow flowing to us from that um
I believe when we were on the ballot
this fall we made a commitment to the
community to um operate within those
local funds uh it'll be a discussion of
if if the federal funds roughly $700,000
to evaporate we'd probably have a local
um discussion on how to address address
that either budgetarily or other Revenue
options any other questions from
Council um
missad um while we were just on the
subject I wanted to just thank you both
for being here tonight the presentation
was awesome um I've the opportunity to
see a lot of these numbers and it's
great to have that in front of Council
in the city um I did just want to
highlight upon and uh Mr marcelino's
conversation um with that engagement
between our police department and our
schools I think that we have done a
great job in the past two years with the
community engagement that Chief Lewis
has done on a number of levels um
including our schools had the
opportunity to watch um firstand uh and
I was actually one of my first jobs as a
city council member was to approve the
SRO at St Charles and I've had the
opportunity to watch uh officer Grimes
in that role Thrive um major part of the
community uh everyone leans into him
there he's the first line of
communication between that school and
the department I would just ask that we
continue the conversation um 2018 was a
long time ago and the climate in our
schools has changed unfortunately so I
would just ask that we continue the
conversation but thank you both for
being here today appreciate it thank you
thank you um I will also add council I
get together quarterly with Dr Fine
Chief Lewis Mike Price the mayor uh the
library and a few other Community
Partners if there's ever something that
you would like me to to take to one of
those quarterly meetings just let me
know and myself or the mayor are happy
to to raise it did you want to add
anything I just wanted to put it right
back at you the relationship is very
appreciated it's great to have leaders
in our community where we can turn to
each other and and kind of brainstorm
and we have a great collaborative
relationship I really appreciate it same
goes with you Kyle uh you've been a
great resource for us um and uh want to
reaffirm that even as I'm sure the
conversation over SRO and all these
things will continue one of the the core
focuses that is so clear from you and
from the school board is a concern for
student safety and for our school safety
it's one that we mirror and it's one
that we work very closely together with
you on and I appreciate that
relationship than you thank you so much
for thank you we appreciate the time
thank
you and you are certainly welcome to
stay if you or Mr Smith don't attend
enough meetings you are certainly
welcome to to stick around thank all
right thank you thank you so much great
job great job all right we are moving on
to agenda item number five ordinances
with visiting presenters um Mr Mayor do
you want to introduce our special guest
or Mr official do I need to have you
read it since it's okay sounds
good all right so this is a second
reading correct second reading of
ordinance 0525 to approve the supplier
from the city of Bexley electric
aggregation program introduced by m
Assad yes well we are excited to have
you here this evening to come up and
tell us a little bit more about the
aggregation um program
so without further Ado and uh Madam
President we have John and Jay from
Aspen energy welcome back you may
recognize from past successes such as
our current aggregation program so yes
we currently run the aggregation program
um has been a great success and I'll
kind of go through all the numbers here
of the program John again JL of Aspen
energy and uh I get into it so you just
say next slide or you can have the
keyboard whichever one you want
um I'll say next slide I'm already up
here so there we go yeah uh so yeah Mee
presentation we's go over current
program RP results a auction results and
timeline and
recommendation next
slide so our current program right now
we have in place uh you'll see here a
rate is red back agregation rate is blue
we have our rate is point or 6.86 cents
uh % green wreck price and that's a
price during the timeline of the 20
month we set of course we're not done
with that 20 months we have a couple
more months but you know this is where
we're at right now
um had something pop up that's bad there
you
go that Natalie definitely I better
hurry up
yeah had some Zoom issues recently but I
guarantee pay for this
so um the program has been under that
price the entire time we've had the
program um which is great it's exactly
what you want it's a grand slam that's
what you want a program kind of run with
um it doesn't happen often but here it
is and we've been under the price during
the entire term and we continue being
under a price for the next couple months
uh next
slide so kind of the next uh kind of
some points about it and what we already
have in place again we did a we did a
20-month electric igration program at
6.86 cents per kilowatt Program start
September 2023 runs to May
2025 um so overall uh we're just this
stat just till December uh Community has
saved $1.2 million uh just a little over
that average customer count per month is
3,323 th000 uh average monthly usage
just about 3.5 kilowatt uh per month and
city was awarded
$46,000 and green back program that's a
program that the um the supplier decide
to do because you guys are very Green
community they want to add something in
there I know you guys were I think that
was adding the EV charging stations I
think it was counted for and we were
able to send a check like hey you did
something here it's check for you know
being more green and helping out um
basically the overall grid and such so
but yeah that was awarded back in I
think it's September of last year it
was so now moving on to kind of where
we're going to go from here um a lot has
changed in that 20 months since we had a
program and moving
forward um a lot of things have changed
in the market so basically we're seeing
um we're seeing huge influx of data
centers and AI moving into the area in
fact today today not today this week uh
Amazon just announced another $1.2
billion investment in Marysville for
data centers um already they have I
think it's 3.5
million uh dollars invested in New
Albany five five building data center
overall I think it's 11 million they
have contributed to Ohio alone this
picture right here you see is our
national grid that we're in it's called
the
pjm these rates everybody across the
board is going up iFly um our grid is uh
going to reach very high capacity due to
these data centers everything kind of
moov in place capacity is a factor that
goes into a fixed price it determines on
how you have your actual price um with
our national grid going to be pressed to
a very high extent um these numbers
currently we're at capacity at $28 this
is going to go to
$269 so and there's kind of a lot of
numbers up there but it's going almost
10 times as high coming in June of
2025 um that's unfortunate we knew there
were going to be changes that's why we
kind of ended the program at this time
to figure out what was going to
happen this auction takes place every
year so we don't know what's going to be
until auction takes place um it takes
place in July this year it take place in
July for the following year it's just
kind of how it happens so we don't know
what kind of future is going to hold
going forward
so with that being said we did a RFP for
basically um new program coming up and
we did a May and June start so we had D
who's our current
supplier um they provide rates for uh
May and June a as
well and constellation uh they provide
rates just for a may start so as you can
see there the best rate that where may
start would be the 13mon at
9155 and
going forward from there you see some
pretty some pretty big increases for
constellation they're actually dropping
the price for a 24mth 8 997 so for a
June start again D is the best right now
for the rates that we have so again
we're see a big increase but it's
happening to everybody and even with
rates where they're at right
now next slide AP is currently at 77
eight kilowatt so that range will stay
the same till about May of 2025 right
when our program
ends come June 2025 it's going to be
estimated about 10.5 cents to 11 cents
June 25 to May 2026 we're going to get
hit it's um Everybody across the board's
get hit the whole Grid's going to get
hit it's just how it is um down below I
know there's some kind of numbers down
there but um this is the actual a
results a has to go out and purchase
power from the generators from uh
natural gas nuclear coal uh renewable
energy that comprise of a price that
you're going to have for the following
year and they go out and purchase this
price and that's what determines the SEO
rate standard Choice offer um it's
pretty again pretty big uh increase that
they're seeing as well and we're going
to see the price around 10 and a half
cents 11 cents that's what's be
estimated right now we won't know that
price until basically
by what miday usually gets announced
timing so mid May maybe end of May so
that's when it usually gets announced
what will June will be so but we've done
this for kind of a while we we kind of
know where the territory is going to be
at so uh but currently just kind of
summary AP is at 7
78 um projected be 10 and a half to 11
back aggregation rate uh 6.86 cents and
that is is the constellation 24 month R
that's we closest the lowest we're
seeing just under N9
cents so pause on this slide for a
second yes questions I think what I said
at our last meeting is that we had this
first reading said Market time is a
little funky and we wanted to talk about
it at least get the reading going so we
can discuss this what we're potentially
concerned about is
that while we know from the auctioning
that has occurred that a P's pricing is
going to go up residents won't have
access to that rate they're only going
to see that middle rate that's
7778 which is what the current price to
compare is so we'll be going to
Residents and we'll be saying we got
this great deal it's 8.9 97 believe us
it's a great deal and they're like but
and we have to disclose of course the
price to compare is 7.78 and so we're
going to be in a situation where we're
saying hey trust us it's going to go up
and anyone who's doing the research and
is Maybe not like understanding the
whole market dynamics will be saying
wait a second Bexley why have you signed
us up for more expensive electricity
than what I can go get at a face rate
with a um so it's going to be a more
complicated communication challenge now
if one month later it won't be a
complicated communication challenge it
will be clear but obviously we have to
start this process months
beforehand to which point if we just Let
It Drop for a month or two that's a
whole another Communications challenge
because if we just our aggregation drop
everyone's going to get a letter saying
you are no longer with d you're now with
a but then maybe Weeks Later they'll get
a letter from us saying hey we're sign
you up for this so it's just G be a
whole lot of like switching around to
get to toh whatever that next solution
is so it's going to take I think a lot
of conversation and obviously education
this this conversation is more
straightforward because we've been
through it and this is a more like just
basic rate that we're purchasing but
there's going to be um we have to Fig
you guys have to figure out like how do
we play this
timing it's the right thing at the right
time yeah and I have this be is probably
the community I've had the most phone
calls from and that's actually fine it
was actually great I have nothing but
good feedback added quite a few people
in there uh people that are a lot
confused and I know there were some door
knockers going through every now and
then and they're telling something one
thing it's not really true we've had
that happen um uh it's been great
feedback overall but yeah we if you
start a May 2025 start yes we're going
to be high for one month but for the
following 12 months we know we were
going to be under and saving the
community quite a bit of money yes Mr MC
PE right so I gotta think about this in
my household so I'm really lucky I'm
making this up my gas bill or my
electric bill is
$10 okay based on the aggregation rate
of that I'm paying today which is
6.8 C correct okay what I'm also
understanding is that if we do nothing
and wait until the new pricing comes out
it's going to go
up three cents so it would go up 50% so
my $10 electrical bill electric bill
would go to
$15 correct correct and if we go back to
the slide with the RFP not totally
correct because that's just generation
just generation