WATER HEARING PLANNED; SIMI, OJAI MAY GET INCREASE IN RATES.Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande Daily News Staff Writer Hearings are scheduled to begin today on a rate-increase request filed by the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Water Co., which supplies water to portions of Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. and Ojai. The water company's Simi Valley District is seeking a 3 percent increase over the next three years, while the Ojai District is asking for 27 percent. Because heavy winter rains relieved drought conditions "Drought Conditions" is episode 126 of The West Wing. Plot Senator Rafferty, a new presidential candidate garnered much media attention with a ground-breaking speech about health care. , the availability of water will be less of an issue in evaluating the request, said a spokeswoman for the California Public Utilities Commission The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC; also often commonly referred to as simply the PUC) [1] is a state Public Utilities Commission which regulates privately-owned utilities in the state of California, including electric power, , which is considering the proposed hike. ``We'll be looking at operational costs, including payroll, facilities improvements, if they have to replace any equipment or something like that,'' said Kyle DeVine of the CPUC CPUC California Public Utilities Commission CPUC Current Procurement Unit Cost . ``We don't have a water-supply problem in those communities right now. We'll try to see if (an increase) is reasonable.'' The hearings will begin at 2 p.m. today at the commission courtroom, first floor, 107 S. Broadway, Los Angeles. A second meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday at the Chaparral Auditorium, 414 E. Ojai Ave., Ojai. Simi Valley water officials did not return phone calls. But the head of the Ojai district said a customer in that city who uses an average of 2,800 cubic feet of water a month will see a $10.39 increase in their bills. Officials in the Ojai district, which has 2,700 connections and serves an estimated 8,700 people, say an increase in overhead costs overhead costs see fixed costs. requires them to raise their rates this year. ``We've had to offset a brand-new filtration system we built in Ojai,'' said district Superintendent Frank Bennett. ``And other utility companies have passed their rate increases onto us. Gas, power, electric, phone service have all gone up.'' |
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