 Committee chairman Jan
Schumacher, Andy Anderson, Andy Meister,
Kevin Bateman, Pat O'Neill and Bill Martin unanimously approved
pursuing Illinois Community Choice Aggregation Network, or ICCAN, as
a consultant for Logan County. Their recommendation will go to the
full board for final approval later this month.
Schumacher told the committee that Jonathan Wright is acting as
Logan County's attorney on this. He has reviewed the contract and
identified a few issues.
Bateman suggested that in accordance with trying to work with the
city, it might be best if Wright and the city of Lincoln's attorney,
Bill Bates, would work together on the contract issues.
"This should be a mirrored thing," Bateman said.
Schumacher agreed, saying that it would be good to have common
wording and that other issues would be alike as well.
Bateman said, "We need to get this all worked together. If the
city's got concerns, the county's got concerns."
Schumacher said she is also planning to run this by the county
treasurer, Vicki Dugan, for her perspective on payment method. Dugan
has been on vacation but would be back soon.
Most government entities are trying to set up now to activate
contracts with consultants, so that when the results of the March 20
votes are in, the action can begin. The consultants can then begin
to watch the market prices, and according to how the contract reads,
lock in what is expected to be a lower price for energy to the end
user. Residents and businesses would be contacted to choose if they
do not want to be included in the program.
The referendum is on the next ballot for unincorporated areas of
Logan County and the incorporated areas of Atlanta, Emden, Lincoln,
Middletown, Mount Pulaski and San Jose.
A vote of "yes" means support for community leaders to negotiate
with various providers of electricity.
[By
JAN YOUNGQUIST]
(See this week's "City
Briefs" for more detailed information. A
section of that article is also posted in the
right-hand column on this page.)
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Excerpt from "City Briefs," posted Feb. 7:
ICCAN confirmed as city's electric aggregation consultant
(Mayor Keith) Snyder said the committee consisting of (David)
Wilmert, Alderman Tom O'Donohue, himself and representatives from
the Logan County Board had met Jan. 25, the day after presentations
were made by Good Energy and Illinois Community Choice Aggregation
Network, and had made a unified selection of which consulting
service they would recommend.
He said ICCAN had won out over Good Energy because it was clear
to the committee the consultant had better answers to their
questions and was ready to get started. He noted that in the
presentations given two weeks ago, Mark Pruitt had even given the
group guidance on going ahead and getting started with the process.
In addition, it was noted that ICCAN had quoted a price of up to
20 cents per megawatt hour, where Good Energy had quoted 75 cents.
(City attorney Bill) Bates said to date he has only seen a sample
copy of a contract for ICCAN, and he would like the motion to
approve to stipulate "pending a contract."
When it came to a vote, ICCAN was confirmed unanimously.
[From article by Nila Smith]
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