Res 198RESOLUTION NO. 198
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF POWAY
STRONGLY OPPOSING THE $166 MILLION RATE INCREASE
GRANTED TO THE SAN DIEGO GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
BY THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF POWAY, CALIFORNIA DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
WHEREAS the San Diego Gas and Electric Company rate charges are among
the highest in the nation; and
WHEREAS the San Diego Gas and Electric Company continues to charge higher
and higher rates in order to increase profits to stockholders; and
WHEREAS the San Diego Gas and Electric Company has for a number of years
failed to demonstrate to the public an ability to properly manage its financial
affairs; and
WHEREAS the consumer, including the City of Poway, in spite of sincere
and successful attempts at energy conservation, has been forced to subsidize
profits and mismanagement; and
WHEREAS the San Diego Gas and Electric Company has failed to show any
responsiveness to the plight of the consumer and rate payer; and
WHEREAS the Public Utilities Commission has just granted San Diego Gas
and Electric Company a $166 million rate increase in spite of 1981 profit
increases.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City Council of the City of Poway
strongly opposes this rewarding of such blatant mismanagement and calls im-
mediately for hearings by the appropriate agencies to accomplish the following:
1. An immediate roll-back of the $166 million rate increase granted
to San Diego Gas and Electric Company.
2. An investigation conducted into the rate-making structure and
procedures for quasi-public utilities.
3. The stockholders commit themselves to the assumption of their
share of any financial reversals caused by the aforementioned mismanagement.
4. In the event that there is no action on the part of the San Diego
Gas and Electric Company to relieve the plight of the consumer, the City
Council of the City of Poway, on behalf of its citizens, requests that the
Public Utilities Commission immediately investigate management alternatives
for the operation of the utility.
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5. Should the Public Utilities Commission be unable to address this
situation, that the legislature of the State of California form an independent
commission which would investigate the policies and procedures of the Public
Utilities Commission regarding rate setting and management alternatives for
San Diego Gas and Electric Company.
PASSED and ADOPTED this
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ATTEST:
a ~rie K-. Wahlsten, City