These expenses cover legal counsel and consultants, as well as other costs for this application to impose higher rates on us. These expenses are included in the Operation & Maintenance costs – $209,738 is the total, to be amortized over 3 years.

This is shown in the testimony document for Cary. See Exhibit 10, Schedule 1 (page 25) and Line No. 25 in Exhibit 10, Summary Schedule 1-3 (page 1).

Thanks Paul J. for your earlier post. This is a really big issue and the postcard said nothing about this aspect.

It’s obvious that, in yet another way, I’m expected to subsidize growth. How much is Suez allowed to charge for new hookups, and does that amount include expected infrastructure upgrade costs? If it doesn’t, start there first, please.

And employment is not the only reason people want privacy.

btw, I am not ‘aligned’ with the left. I am aligned with fairness, equality and justice- just like that lady standing in New York Harbor. Another gift from France. What’s her name? 🙂

I do think citizens are best served via the private sector, the issue is to get the benefit of the private sector there needs to be competition since it is that competition that drives innovation and efficiencies. Competition eliminates those who fail to constantly improve.

A private utility that has a monopoly to provide a specific service does not create the competition element. The better model might be the City owning the water infrastructure but outsourcing the operations and maintenance of that system to a firm who specializes in doing just that. Every 10 years or so the City will re-bid that service to see if there are more innovative or efficient ways of serving the public.

Two (2) law firms have also filed on behalf of water customers, with one being the Boise Bench issue of brown water.

Here is the web address to go directly to all documents and public comments.

https://puc.idaho.gov/case/Details/6543

And I appreciate Mr. Editor allowing the ability to remain anonymous as it allows those who work in the public sector the ability to share what goes on behind closed doors if they wish to reveal such info.

‘Capitol’ is the building.

‘Capital’ is the town where the building and headquarters of government is. Or the high school in the Boise School District. Or the finance term.

So you really don’t know french spelling, do you?

EDITOR NOTE–Could Paris be the CAPITOLE?

Anonymity is necessary due to the large number of bullies which our laws can’t quit reach to make them behave civilly. Worse, some of these bullies are in powerful government occupations.

Do be careful not to be a bully yourself however. The political left, which you seem to be aligned with, fully supports people losing their careers over simple support of a candidate or active participation in a political process. That kind of anti-American nastiness is the hallmark of the French Terror and the Bolshevik takeover of the Russian revolution. Do check yourself, but do continue to participate. It is fun to show the holes in your logic. And sometimes I learn stuff I didn’t know.