Fairlawn Residents Will Get A Substantial Break on Natural Gas

Fairlawn residents should keep an eye on their mailboxes for a deal on next year's gas bills.

Subscribers to the city's gas aggregation program will get a fixed rate of $6.193 cents per thousand cubic feet (Mcf) through an agreement with Direct Energy. The rate goes into effect in November.

"The price is 67 cents less than last year," Mayor William Roth said at Monday's council meeting.

The rate excludes taxes and fees, and has an additional discount for senior citizens 65 or older who own their homes.

The city works with Buckeye Energy Brokers to buy natural gas at a lower price for a group of residents.  Roth said he does not know how many people are involved in the program each year.

Other council news

• The received a $3,000 grant for emergency medical service training from the Ohio Department of Public Safety.
• Cleveland Massillion Road at Elgin Road will be closed until late Wednesday afternoon while road crews replace damaged concrete.
• Council voted to continue its moratorium on allowing arcade games to locate in the city, at least through September.
• A bid of $171,263.40 from Cioffi Construction has been approved as an emergency to perform concrete street repairs.
• A bid of $178,367.00 from Perrin Ashphalt has been approved as an emergency to resurface Crystal Lake Road to Embassy Parkway.

Following the meeting, Mayor Roth said the city is waiting on engineer's approval of a bid to install to close Rothrock Road west of Sawgrass Drive to commercial traffic anticipated move of Walmart and Sam's Club from to Copley Township.  The Fairlawn Planning Commission approved the plan for the gates last week at the mayor's request. To go forward, council must also approve the expense of approximately $335,000 to install the gates.