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r - <br />JAN 2 31990 <br />BOOK 42 PAGE 577 <br />SUCH AS THEIR USING 1978 AS THE BASE YEAR, WHICH WAS THE YEAR IN <br />WHICH THERE WERE SEVERAL MORATORIUMS. HE FELT THERE SHOULD BE SET <br />ASIDE A CERTAIN PORTION OF THE SEWER PLANT FOR FUTURE CUSTOMERS, AND <br />WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE ALLOCATION PORTIONS FOR THE LIFT STATIONS. <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE THEN REFERRED TO THE LAST RATE HEARING IN <br />SEPTEMBER OF 1971 AND QUOTED FROM OFFICIAL RECORD BOOK 31, PAGE 98 <br />REGARDING A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE SEWER PLANT. HE NOTED THAT IN THEIR <br />PRESENTATION, THERE SEEMED TO BE A CHANGE IN THE FIGURES THAT WERE <br />PRESENTED TO THE PROPERTY APPRAISER AND THOSE THAT THE BOARD RECEIVED <br />FROM THEM. COMMISSIONER WODTKE FELT THE RATE THEY ARE ASKING DOES <br />NOT REALLY REFLECT THE TRUE INCOME POTENTIAL AND/OR ADDITIONAL <br />CUSTOMERS WHEN USING 19%8 AS THEIR BASE YEAR. HE THEN REVIEWED THEIR <br />SUGGESTED RATE INCREASE: <br />$5.20 FOR THE FIRST 2,000 GALLONS <br />$1.25 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL 1,000 GALLONS <br />$7.50 FOR THE SEWER RATE <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE COMMENTED THAT HE IS SUPPORTIVE OF A-RATE71NCREASE <br />BUT RECOMMENDED THE FOLLOWING: <br />$5.00 FOR THE FIRST 3,000 GALLONS <br />$1.00 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL 1,000 GALLONS <br />$6.00 FOR THE SEWER RATE <br />AND ALSO RECOMMENDED A MORE ACCURATE BASE YEAR BE USED. <br />DISCUSSION ENSUED AND COMPARISONS WERE MADE BETWEEN COMMIS- <br />SIONER WODTKE'S RECOMMENDATIONS AND GENERAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION`S <br />RECOMMENDATIONS. <br />COMMISSIONER DEESON AGREED THAT THE CURRENT RATES ARE NOT <br />JUSTIFIED WITH THE COST INVOLVED AND HE COULD NOT SUPPORT THE RATE <br />INCREASE AS PROPOSED BY GDC, BUT WOULD SUPPORT THE RATES THAT COM- <br />MISSIONER WODTKE HAS SUGGESTED. <br />COMMISSIONER Loy WAS DISTURBED THAT THERE ARE SO MANY <br />EXPENSES CHARGED TO THIS SYSTEM THAT ARE NOT RELEVANT TO IT, AND <br />WAS CONCERNED THAT THERE WAS NO EFFORT ON THE PART OF GDC TO SET <br />ASIDE FIGURES JUST FOR THIS SYSTEM ALONE. SHE CONTINUED THAT SHE <br />DID NOT THINK IT WAS THE BOARDS RESPONSIBILITY TO SEE THAT GDC STAYS <br />UP WITH THEIR RATE INCREASES AND THOUGHT IT WAS HIGH ENOUGH FOR THE <br />PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO BE INVOLVED. <br />3PO <br />COMMISSIONER LOY REPORTED THAT <br />_I <br />