At its regular meeting on Tuesday, August 4, 2026, at 7:30 PM, the Powell City Council received updates on electric aggregation and the Village Green Master Plan, approved four resolutions and two ordinances, and held a second reading and adoption of a major zoning code rewrite. Key votes included the adoption of Resolution 2026-39 extending the Village Green planning contract at no additional cost, and Ordinance 2026-14 adopting a new Planning and Zoning Code with amendments. The council also entered executive session for property, legal, and economic development matters.
Council entered executive session at the end of the meeting under ORC 121.22(G)(2) (property purchase), (G)(3) (attorney conference on imminent litigation), and (G)(8) (economic development assistance). No action was taken.
7 30. I will call the Tuesday October. I don't know what that's about. August 4th, 2026 Powell City Council meeting to order. Elaine, would you please call the roll? Thank you. Leaf Carlson? Here. Tom Counts. Here. Crawford. Tyler Herman. David Lester. Ramsey. Here. Please stand up to pledge the lead. I know. I pledge allegiance to flood of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God. And justice for all. The first item on our agenda are presentations. We have two presentations this evening. One an update on energy aggregation, and the second, the Village Green Master Plan update. Typically during presentations, we do not take questions or public comment. However, if you are here about the Village Green, there is an item on our resolutions this evening, 2026-39, where comment would be appropriate. And with that, the update on energy aggregation with Ross McDonald from NOPEC, Director of Community Expansion. And oh, I hope I don't get this wrong. Deepa Vidobias with NOPEC, the Director of Sustainability and Resiliency, and Jenny Costanzo with NOPEC Relationship Manager for the City of PAL. Did I get it? You got it. You got it. Perfect. Well, good evening, Mayor Carr and members of Council Ross McDonald here, uh, director of community expansion with NOPEC. Uh, here to give a brief update on the opt-out period for the community's electric aggregation. So on July 22nd, we mailed out uh 4,04 uh opt-out notices. So residents in the crowd, you may have received a letter that said uh NOPEC and it had the POW logo. Uh we are the city's, of course, the city's chosen electric aggregator. Um the opt-out period commenced July 23rd and it'll end August 12th. At that time, any resident who did not take action will be enrolled into the electric aggregation. Let me say that a different way. If you want to be in the program, do nothing. You can hang on to the letter, uh put it on the fridge like I do, most things, and just hang on to it. So we see uh with our most recent new communities, we've been seeing 90% uh enrollment rate, meaning uh 90% of the community decided to try out the program. Uh certainly we encourage that. Um I would make a note that right now uh the electric pricing that the residents will receive uh is about a penny lower than the AEP price to compare. So starting on September 1st through November 30th, the pricing here in PAL will be 9.99 cents per kilowatt hour. After November 30th, any resident that's in the program will transition to the NOPEC standard program price. That is at 10.49 cents uh per kilowatt hour, and that'll uh be held all the way through May 2027. During this period, residents are welcome to visit our pricing page, uh which is also um on the Powell electric aggregation page, the link to it, uh, and explore whether or not they they would like to lock in for a longer period of time. We do offer 12 and 24 month uh electric products.