The puc and collectively delivered over 20 thousand projects and also provide Business Solutions Financial Management and other types of Business Solutions were also recognized as an Industry Leader having contributed to National Publications on rates and charges throughout this process gone through Data Collections reviewing different rate structures and presenting to the public theres 2 components id like to highlight as part of this timeline one we met weekly with the staff throughout the divisions within the agency and in order to get a broad context of what rates and the financial projections that meet the needs of the puc and towards the process met monthly in order to continue to engage the public and make sure the publics voice was heard in terms of our recommendations. When developing rates theres 3 major components. Also noted the reinvestment for the liability of the infrastructure both water and sewer system once we identify those costs then move into the cost of service wh
Part of this independent process we integrated a lot of information. We developed a comprehensive Financial Model basically incorporated those 3 elements projections cost of service and the final rate design it also becomes a longterm tool that puc staff can use in terms of maintaining and evaluating projections over time and finally recommendations again this is our independent view but formed through a collaborative process with staff as well as the public so in general we do believe the puc rates in process as well as final rates do adhere to california state law a critical point to deliver and agree with the overall needs to pay for not only the inflationary o and m costs but were recommending that the tier break for the water system for the Single Family has increased from 3 ccf the 748 gallons per unit in alignment with the customer usage patterns unique to the city and were recommending on the wastewater side a single unit cost per water discharge to the system were recommending
We recover those costs. As part of this independent process we integrated a lot of information. We developed a comprehensive Financial Model basically incorporated those 3 elements projections cost of service and the final rate design it also becomes a longterm tool that puc staff can use in terms of maintaining and evaluating projections over time and finally recommendations again this is our independent view but formed through a collaborative process with staff as well as the public so in general we do believe the puc rates in process as well as final rates do adhere to california state law a critical point to deliver and agree with the overall needs to pay for not only the inflationary o and m costs but were recommending that the tier break for the water system for the Single Family has increased from 3 ccf the 748 gallons per unit in alignment with the customer usage patterns unique to the city and were recommending on the wastewater side a single unit cost per water discharge to t