The Powell Operations Committee met on February 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM in Council Chambers to discuss electric aggregation objectives following voter approval in November 2025, and to address logistics for the Memorial Day parade.
All right, good evening. I'd like to call the uh Operations Committee meeting for February 17th into session. Do you want to call the role? Leave Carlson. Here. Carlos Crawford. David Lester. Very good. We'll move on to the first item on our agenda approval of minutes. That was included in our packet. Any comments before we move to approve. Motion to approve. Second. Very good. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Okay. So today's business and uh is uh result of our efforts and uh or actually the citizens effort on the ballot in November. So we are going to hear our first uh presentation on electric aggregation objectives, so on and so forth. Please. Uh Jeff's prepared a presentation for the operations committee, our thought would be to gain some valuable feedback from the committee to council to take direction. Um at this point with the approval and the constituents, um, the council will have the ultimate decision to move forward. The next pertinent step would be the selection of a consultant to help us through the process, and uh that's what we want to talk about tonight. Key takeaways I think we'll want to look at would be you know specific policy objectives that we would like to address for and on behalf of the community. Uh and then I think this will be reiterated, but just to reinforce uh with the volatility known in the marketplace. This is not uh a definitive path forward, you know. If we got into it and it's going awry because uh the markets go haywire, the city has uh the authority to move away and uh hopes for better climate. So with that, I'll turn it over to Jeff for his presentation and we'll take some uh questions and discussion after. I don't know if I really need to do much of a presentation. Andy really kind of encapsulated the issues, but uh we'll we'll attempt to do our best. So tonight is not about structure, or tonight is about structure, not selection. So we're not asking for us to go through the selection process, and in fact, what we're trying to do is set the um policy objectives for moving forward with an RFP. So in your packet, what you have is a draft purpose statement. You also have a Central Ohio comparative matrix that compares uh local communities that have gone through this process, some of them haven't. Um, but it gives you a pretty good idea of where we fit within that um those parameters. Um the documents are intended to guide policy direction before procurement begins. See if I can make this thing work. So the purpose of tonight's discussion, um, Andy already said it, the voters overwhelmingly approved electric aggregation. Um so that authorized that uh authorization, the automatic implementation. Um what we are trying to do is finalize an RFP, um, and so the um policy document that you have within your packet really begins to help us set those. Um what the city will do is we'll negotiate uh generation supply pricing. What we won't do is change anything with respect to AEP. So they will still supply the power, and they own the polls and all the ancillary issues that go along with that. This only affects the generation portion of the bill. Um the good thing is residents have the opportunity to opt out at any time. Um and that is how it was presented before the voters. So there will be correspondence that goes out to the owners as we get further into this. Right stability, supplier performance, understanding who the supplier is going to be, and making sure that they perform effectively transparency and compliance. Um, and I have yes here if there are any uh particular compliance issues that we need to talk about from the RRC, we can discuss that uh at the end of this presentation. So there are really two types of procurement processes that we need to look at.