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City council’s residential committee suggested alterations to the city’s fence ordinance in its Jan. 25 meeting. Committee Chairman Evan Newman explained that Planning and Zoning Officer Chip Hank had contacted him recently with concerns from residents who had a dispute over property lines and wanted to build a fence. Newman explained that one resident had […]
SALEM The rules and ordinances committee heard a request to alter zoning restrictions and considered requiring fencing around private pools in the city at its recent meeting. The request came from Adrian Willoughby, owner of Willmek Autoparts in Sebring, who presented the committee with a request to modify the city’s restrictions of what a […]
SALEM City council further discussed traffic on South Lincoln in its meeting Monday. The brief meeting was dominated by discussion of a demo speed tracking sign monitoring traffic entering the city that was installed the day prior. City Service Safety Director Joe Cappuzzello said that the unit not only tracks and records any instances […]
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SALEM Residents in the city’s gas aggregation program paid more than expected for both February and March after supplier Volunteer Energy increased the locked-in rate without warning.
“It was a shock to all of us at city hall,” Mayor John Berlin said.
Under the new two-year contract with Volunteer Energy, the city had agreed to a locked-in rate of 41 cents per one hundred cubic feet (Ccf) for the natural gas aggregation program, which allows the city to gain buying power by banding everyone together to buy gas from a certified supplier, such as Volunteer Energy.
The new price was to go into effect with the February billing cycle, so when Berlin received his gas bill, he was surprised to see the rate was 49 cents per Ccf. In March, it shot up even higher, to 57 cents per Ccf. He asked city Service/Safety Director Joe Cappuzzello to check with the supplier and with AMPO Inc., who represented the city’s interests in the program.