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Show Facts about electricity rate increase 'whitewashed' above. The ratepayers (consumer-owners) (consumer-owners) deserve to know the true facts. Lest there be concern that we expect ex-pect the utility to be operated perfectly without any human error in judgment, please be advised that this is not the case. My only concern con-cern is when the utility management chooses to gloss over problem areas, both past and present, in an effort to reduce any criticism. It is through constructive criticism that efficiency in managing utility costs will improve. Unfortunately, I will be out of town on business on Wednesday, May 23, when the special public meeting will be held. I would have appreciated more notice as I am sure many other consumer-owners would have liked as well. I would hope that Mayor Linnell will run the meeting in such a way as to present all the facts to the consumer-owners in sufficient detail that the city residents will have a better understanding of how their utility is managed. He should not allow the management of the power company to gloss over the facts. A new brochure showing the ten year trend for each cost item mentioned in this letter should be sent to the consumer-owners with the next monthly statement. R. Fred Moss Bountiful Dear Editor: We received from Bountiful Light & Power a letter dated May 15, and the accompanying brochure entitled 'Facts About Bountiful Electric Rates" last Friday. This appears to be a whitewash of the facts. Why doesn't Mr. Michaelis include in-clude a breakdown showing where the costs have increased? As an example, ex-ample, what is the ten year historical cost for CRSP power and what is the new increased cost? What is the actual percentage increase in-crease in this snecific cost? order to have the confidence in the management of our utility company. com-pany. With an obvious whitewash of the facts such as this letter from Mr. Michaelis, we do not have sufficient suf-ficient confidence that the utility "we own' is being managed property- . The mayor and the city council may need to provide additional oversight to protect the interests of the consumer-owners if my perceptions percep-tions are correct. At any rate, I would appreciate an answer to all of the questions What are specific ten-year historical costs of power from UAMPS and City-owned Generation? Genera-tion? What is the new cost for each power source and the percentage increase over the past ten years? How are these costs reflected in the overall cost increase? Michaelis' letter states that "Part of the increase will be absorbed in cost-cutting measures within the power department." The question is where will these costs be absorbed? absorb-ed? What is the amount? What other departmental costs will actually actu-ally be increasing? What has been the cost of the Administrative costs of Bountiful City Light and Power over the past ten years? This too should be included in-cluded in a letter to the ratepayers and shown graphically. We know that the trend is up but we ought to be entitled to see how increasesdecreases in-creasesdecreases stack up in a ten year comparison. We would like to see if these costs are being managed properly over time. Last year Bountiful Power & Light had a rate "adjustment" which was in reality a rate increase. But the brochure claims that there have not been any rate increases since 1986. What was the cost of the diesel generation plant? Does this cost include in-clude all the environmental additions addi-tions that the Power and Light Company failed to originally take into consideration? What is the total cost of the diesel generation plant in cents per kilowatt hours? How does 1 this compare with other costs for , power that is purchased? Bountiful City sold a bond issue 1 to allow for the purchase of future resources. Only part of this bond i issue was used and the remainder was later redeemed. What was the ' overall cost to the ratepayers for this bond issue? I Under which budget are these amounts reflected? It seems to me that other resources could have been purchased with these low cost , funds once the bonds had been sold. The cost to raise this bond money I was wasted by not using the money ( and then buying back the low-cost bonds at a premium without any benefit to the consumer-owners. Bountiful City shows a User Fee and a Utility Tax on their invoices to its resident users each month. Are these fees included in the rate I per kilowatt hour being represented j on the brochure? My concern is that Bountiful City ' Power is not explaining in sufficient detail what is really happening here. ( As residential users of power from Bountiful City Light and Power which the brochure claims "has ) operated as a consumer-owned, locally controlled utility.. .Our first obligation is to you, our consumer- i owner." I We need to see all of the facts in |