Hearing - W-01427A-25-0126 - Liberty Utilities (Litchfield Park Water and Sewer) Corp. SW-01428A-25-0127 et al

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What procedural matters and exhibit listings are covered at the beginning of the hearing?

Presiding Judge 0:00

Right, let's go ahead and go on the record and this is the time set for put or for yeah. For the continuation of the hearing and docket numbers W-01427A-25-0126 and SW zero one four two eight A dash two five-one two seven. For rate increases for the water and wastewater divisions of Liberty Utilities Lichfield. And docket numbers W-01427A-25-0163 and SW-01428A-25-0163 for approval of a financing application. And good morning. All in our places with bright shiny faces or something like that. Um, welcome. At this time let's take appearances.

Tim Savo 0:51

Uh without any representations about bright or shining, uh this is uh Tim Savo and Stephen Amedi on behalf of the applicant.

Presiding Judge 1:00

Okay. And on behalf of Ruco.

Sarah Barrios-Cool 1:02

Good morning, Your Honor. Uh Sarah Barrio's cool and with me this morning is Chief Counsel Dan Pizeski.

Presiding Judge 1:08

Thank you. And

Bridget Humphrey 1:08

on behalf of staff? Good morning, Your Honor, Bridget Humphrey and Maureen Scott on behalf of staff.

Presiding Judge 1:13

All right, thank you. Okay, um before we start I would like to if everybody could grab their exhibit list because I was thinking it was kind of all over the place and I would just like to confirm where we are at this point.

Presiding Judge 1:36

Let me know when everybody has their checklists.

Presiding Judge 1:47

Kind of sprung that on everybody, sorry.

Tim Savo 1:50

Yeah, I I did uh spend a Small amount of time last night just double checking. So uh if I could Uh at least for the applicant exhibits, the Uh I believe they are all admitted except A twenty two. and A twenty nine, both of which, uh, if we end up using them would be cross examination exhibits.

Presiding Judge 2:16

Okay. So I am I don't have on my list eight, twenty six and twenty seven, so I will fix that.

Tim Savo 2:26

Yeah, those were the extra ones for Mr. Barassa.

Presiding Judge 2:29

Okay. Yeah. So not A twenty two, but all right. Is Barrios cool? I can read it off to you if you think that would be easier.

Sarah Barrios-Cool 2:40

Uh I can tell you what I what I think uh we have in among the Ruco exhibits and then I'm happy to have you tell me if I've got any um omissions or errors. Uh Ruco twelve, I ha I show as being admitted. Ruco fourteen. Um And I I've skipped over Ruco thirteen. We didn't move to admit that, but it my understanding is your Honor took administrative notice of uh decision eight one six five three, which is the UNS gas uh rate case decision. I show admitted Ruco sixteen, seventeen. Eighteen. Nineteen. Which my understanding is a duplicate of A twenty two. I also show admitted Ruco twenty. And twenty one. Ruco twenty seven. Ruco thirty two, I show is admitted. And I I have no others that I'm showing admitted at this time.

Presiding Judge 3:44

Okay, good. And I had disallowed thirty three.

Sarah Barrios-Cool 3:48

I have that as well.

Presiding Judge 3:49

Okay. And so staff gets off easy this morning, unless I'm mistaken. I don't have anything showing for staff yet.

Bridget Humphrey 3:57

We have not introduced anything yet. We do I do have one um matter there uh I had marked as an exhibit the issues matrix. Subsequently we uh there was an update to the issues matrix and I don't think anybody has uh listed that as an exhibit. I can either switch out the ma i the issues matrix that we listed or do you wanna do a new exhibit for the final issues matrix? No, we'll just

Presiding Judge 4:20

put in the revised. That'll be fine.

Bridget Humphrey 4:22

Pardon me?

Presiding Judge 4:23

We'll just do the revised one. Okay. Switch switch it out instead of getting a new number.

Sarah Barrios-Cool 4:26

And Your Honor, it may be an error on my part, but my notes had indicated that staff ten, which is the stipulated testimony of Guadalupe Ortiz, had been admitted.

Presiding Judge 4:36

Right. And I also forgot about um uh Mr. Oh Lord.

Sarah Barrios-Cool 4:42

Mr Mr. Eichler. Thank you. I I had yeah, and I believe Mr. Sabo included his stipulated testimony, which is marked A nine.

Presiding Judge 4:51

Okay. Okay. Cool, cool, cool. Thank you. I feel better now. Okay. Uh anything else? Yeah. All right. Good morning, Miss Rao. Uh I'll remind you that um you're still under oath. Okay. Okay. And Ms. Barrow's cool.

Sarah Barrios-Cool 5:16

Good morning.

Presiding Judge 5:17

Good morning.

Sarah Barrios-Cool 5:19

So Do you recall yesterday's discussion um with Miss Scott? regarding uh benefits of the A RAM? I do. Could you refer back to uh Bruco fourteen, which is a copy of decision seven nine six four seven?

Sarah Barrios-Cool 5:57

And I'll and I'll be referring to pages uh six through eight.

Tim Savo 6:07

Could you give me that background again?