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This appears to be the same as last year’s contract. That contract defines this "local supply index" as a "blended average of the company's propane costs for the company's geographic areas and supply points in which the district that serves the customer is located.”

Last year when I questioned how one computes this local supply index from first principles (not by contacting Amerigas), the board/managing agent were not able to answer this question. As was pointed out last year, this number being undefined, in theory, could allow Amerigas to manipulate the weights in this blended average and the costs being averaged, so that the price/gallon charged is exurbanite as compared to Amerigas costs.

I agree with R. Buemi. Time to research other suppliers for charges and service. Another cost - Hazmet surcharge?

Point of clarification......the "HazMat Fee" which we see on our Amerigas bills, is NOT a new charge. This charge has been added to our bills for at least the past 20 years (added to my bill since 6/2006). It is a fee that Amerigas charges the customer to offset a portion of the cost that they must incur to comply with Federal, State and local government regulations concerning hazardous materials, homeland security, workplace safety, etc. We also had been charged a second fee, which was a "Fuel Recovery fee" - Amerigas stopped charging KHF homeowners this fee in 2015.

Of course my comment was about the unknown charges and weights that define this so called local supply index. At least we have a known cost for this Hazmat fee.
As you state this Hazmat fee is "a fee that Amerigas charges the customer to offset a portion of the cost that they must incur to comply with Federal, State and local government regulations concerning hazardous materials, homeland security, workplace safety, etc." Since the local supply index is by definition a "blended average of the company's propane costs for the company's geographic areas and supply points in which the district that serves the customer is located", one might ask why this cost (which is clearly a propane cost for the company's geographic area and supply point in which the district that serves the customer is located) should be called out separately from whatever the other costs that make up this local supply index. I am quite sure that those who negotiate this contract, so I am not worried.