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RESOLUTION NO.
87-42
2 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO OPPOSING THE
PROPOSED RATE INCREASE BY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY IN
3 APPLICATION NO. 86-12-047.
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
5 SAN BERNARDINO AS FOLLOWS:
6 SECTION 1. Recitals.
7 A. Southern California Edison Company ("Edison") has
8 requested rate increases effective January 1, 1988, which will
9 increase rates in 1988 by $301.5 million or 5.4 percent, and in
10 1989 and 1990 by amounts determined prior to the beginning of
11 those years in accordance with current procedures.
12 B. Edison contends that the rate increases are needed to
13 cover (1) the added costs of upgrading existing generation,
14 transmission and distribution facilities and building new
15 facilities, (2) higher anticipated operating and maintenance
16 costs, (3) costs arising from compliance with new and changing
17 laws and regulations, and (4) the cost of obtaining money from
18 investors and lenders.
19 C. In its application, Edison requests the Public Utilities
20 Commission ("Commission") to allocate responsibility for payment
21 of the costs of providing electric service among customer groups
22 to more accurately reflect the actual cost of providing electric
23 service to each group. Edison's proposal would, if approved,
24 allocate a larger percentage of future rate increases to the
25 domestic customer group, which could increase the average
26 residential user's rates by approximately 17%, and provide
27 unjustified relief to large power users.
28 SECTION 2. Implementation
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1 A. The Mayor and Common Council oppose the proposed rate
2 increase request submitted by Southern California Edison Company
3 in Application No. 86-12-047, which would allocate a larger
4 percentage of future rate increases to residential users, often
5 the group least able to afford such increases.
6 B. The City of San Bernardino urges the Public utilities
7 Commission to consider alternative methods of allocating costs so
8 as to assure that domestic users of electricity shall not be
9 required to bear the brunt of increased costs, but that such incre ses
10 be spread on a reasonable basis based at least in part on ability
11 to pay. Such costs should also be allocated on a formula
12 representing a recognition of which classes of service most needed
13 and which most benefit from, the additional generating capacity
14 to be financed through such increased rates.
15 C. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to
16 transmit a copy of this resolution to the California Public
17 utilities Commission, to Toward utility Rate Normalization
18 (T.U.R.N.), as well as to Southern California Edison Company.
19 I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was duly
20 adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of San
21 Bernardino at a ___regular
meeting thereof, held on
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Febru~~____, 1987, by the following vote,
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AYES:
Council Members Estrada~ Reilly. H~andez.
Strickler
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None
ABSENT:
CounciL..Members Ouiel, Frazier
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The foregoing resolution is hereby approved this ~Z~day
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