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COMMISSIONER WODTKE ASKED IF THERE IS ANY WAY THE BOARD CAN BE SUPPLIED WITH FACTUAL INFORMATION ON THE DIRECT COSTS INVOLVED WITH THE OPERATION OF THIS PARTICULAR PLANT - I,E „ THE REVENUE FOR WATER, FOR SEWER, THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ON HOOK-UPS, MANAGEMENTS COSTS, ETC., IN A SIMPLE FORM THAT WE CAN BASE A DECISION ON AS WE NEED SOMETHING TO SUBSTANTIATE TO THE PEOPLE THE NEED FOR A RATE INCREASE, COMMISSIONER Loy STATED THAT WE CAN'T BASE OUR DECISION ON THE FIGURES PRESENTED, WHICH ARE VIRTUALLY UNREADABLE, MR, WORSEN NOTED THAT THESE ARE FIGURES OF SOUTHERN GULF UTILITIES WHICH COULD BE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM THOSE OF THE NEW COMPANY AND POINTED OUT THAT SOUTHERN GULF IS ONLY INTERESTED IN HAVING THE COMMISSION APPROVE THE TRANSFER OF THE FRANCHISE TO TREASURE COAST UTILITIES, CHAIRMAN SIEBERT STATED THAT IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT THE TRANSFER OF FRANCHISE AND RATE INCREASE ARE LUMPED TOGETHER, AND ACTUALLY TREASURE COAST UTILITIES CANNOT REQUEST A RATE INCREASE WHEN THEY DON IT HAVE THE ASSIGNMENT, HE INFORMED ATTORNEY HENDERSON IF WE GIVE YOU THE ASSIGNMENT, WE CANNOT GUARANTEE A RATE INCREASE AND ASKED IF MR, LOHMAN WAS WILLING TO TAKE HIS CHANCES ON A RATE INCREASE AFTER THE TRANSFER, ATTORNEY HENDERSON STATED THAT THEY FELT THE PLANT WOULD BE VIRTUALLY UNWORKABLE WITHOUT A RATE INCREASE, BUT THEY ARE UNDER AN OBLIGATION TO ACCEPT THE ASSIGNMENT, HE THEN ASKED IF THE COMMISSION COULD JUST TRANSFER THE ASSIGNMENT OF FRANCHISE AND DEFER DISCUSSION ON THE RATES UNTIL MORE INFORMATION IS PROVIDED, ATTORNEY COLLINS INFORMED THE BOARD THAT PROCEDURALLY THIS CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED AND STATED HE FELT BOTH ISSUES SHOULD BE CONSIDERED SEPARATELY, DISGUSSION FOLLOWED IN REGARD TO THE SPECIFIC AREA COVERED IN THE FRANCHISE, AND MR, WORSEN STATED THAT IT INCLUDED CARIBBEAN CIRCLE AND SOME OF WHISPERING PALMS, BUT IS IS PREDOMINATELY DIXIE GARDENS, 16 a