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Council voted 8–0 on first readings for 2026 preliminary appropriations and several 2025 budget adjustments, transfers, and cash advances. It also voted 8–0 to oppose Ohio Power Company’s requested distribution-rate increase, including a proposed $4 monthly increase, and asked the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to deny it.
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The budget votes move Lima toward funding ordinary city operations in 2026, but they are first-reading actions rather than final annual appropriations. The utility resolution is the Council’s formal opposition to the proposed rate increase; the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio will decide the request. Council also referred the neighborhood traffic-calming issue to the Council of the Whole Committee, while two rezoning petitions were scheduled for a public hearing on January 26, 2026.
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