Tiffin council unanimously approves resolution asking PUCO to deny Ohio Power rate increase

Tiffin City Council passed a resolution opposing Ohio Power Company's request to increase distribution rates and asked the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to deny the utilities' request. The 7-0 vote came after council moved to suspend the three-reading rule and approve the measure as an emergency.

The resolution, introduced by Council Member Erin Jones, was moved for immediate passage and seconded from the floor. After a procedural vote to suspend the three-reading rule, council voted to declare the resolution an emergency and then to pass it; all seven members voted yes.

The nut of the resolution is a formal local request that the state regulator, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, reject the company's proposed distribution rate increases. The resolution text was introduced as “Resolution number 2025Dash38” and explicitly names the commission as the addressee.

Council Member Erin Jones moved for immediate passage; the motion to suspend the three-reading rule and the emergency declaration preceded the final passage. The roll-call vote recorded all members present — Snay, Thacker, Dougherty, Hayes, Herneman, Jones and Reisner — voting in favor of suspension, emergency designation and passage.

There was no extended debate recorded in the transcript about the substance of the utility request; council proceeded directly from the motion to suspension votes and then to passage. The resolution will be transmitted to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio per its text.

The council action is local legislative expression and does not itself alter rates or place any binding requirement on the state regulator. Any final decision on Ohio Power Company's filing rests with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.