Open Meeting - December 03, 2025

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Arizona Corporation Commission 8h 36m 7 agenda items transcribed 1 day ago official recording ↗

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Chairman Kevin Thompson 0:01

Good morning. Go ahead and uh grab your seat and we'll get this Movie started. So we're now calling our December open meeting to order. And if you could please rise for our invocation from Commissioner Marquez Peterson, followed by our pledge from Commissioner Lopez.

Commissioner Marquez Peterson 0:23

Thank you. Uh please uh join me if you'd like. Dear Lord. Please be with us today. Please please be with our staff, our interveners, the community, our commissioners, and others that are weighing in on these very important issues for Arizona ratepayers across the state. Lord, please guide our our decisions, please guide our actions, and be with us this day. In your name. Amen.

Chairman Kevin Thompson 0:47

Please join me in reciting our pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice all. Thank you. Please be seated. So this is my Last um open meeting as the chair of this organization. It's been a privilege and an honor to serve as the chair. When we reconvene again in January we'll be selecting a new chair and vice chair and uh I would like to personally thank staff for all that you guys have done to make this job a lot easier for me and thank all of you as well for welcoming uh me and my colleagues as well. I I think we have an amazing organization. Amazing staff and I'm very proud of this commission and uh what we've done over the last few years.

Chairman Kevin Thompson 1:47

And so um kudos to all of you and and again thank you for allowing me to serve um as the head of this organization for the past year. So with that we only have ten ten items on our agenda today, including Uh four items on the consent agenda agenda. Um we have no uh forty two fifty two items, but do any of my fellow commissioners have questions regarding any items on the consent agenda? Commissioner Weldon. Mr Marquez Peterson, Mr. Myers? Mr. Lopez? No questions. Perfect. Um would any of my uh colleagues like to move any items from the consent agenda to the regular agenda? No, okay. Very good. Um then Commissioner or Vice Chair Myers, would you please Uh move the consent agenda. I move that the consent ag agenda be adopted.

Chairman Kevin Thompson 2:43

And with that, go ahead and cast your votes.

Chairman Kevin Thompson 2:52

There we go. And the consent agenda passes five to oh. And now we are taking this a little bit out of order and and going to jump to number six to start. So I will move num item number six for discussion.

Chairman Kevin Thompson 3:15

And we'll go ahead and start with Judge Haynes.

Charles Haynes 3:18

Thank you. Uh Chair, Vice Chair Commissioners. Good morning. Charles Haynes from the Hearing Division. Item number six is the application by Anway Midvale for a rate increase. The company provides water service to approximately 237 customers in the Avra Valley region northwest of Tucson in Pima County, Arizona. The company is a Class D utility and its current rates were established in January of 2000. Uh the application proposes an approximate $98,000 increase in revenue, uh, for a approximate 62.5% increase over test-year operating revenues of approximately $157,000. Uh the proposed rate increase would provide a 12.46% return on the company's proposed $398,000 rate base and provide an operating income of approximately $39,500.

Charles Haynes 4:08

Uh, the company's proposed rate design retains the existing rate structure that uses a three tier inverted block commodity rate with monthly basic service charges that increase with increasing meteor size, but eliminates the free thousand gallons currently included with the basic service charge. Uh staff recommends an approximate eighty thousand dollar increase in revenue or approximately a fifty seven percent increase over test year revenue. Uh staff's recommendation would provide a ten percent return on fair value rate base of three hundred twenty four thousand dollars. For an operating income of $32,000. Staff's rate design also uses a three-tier inverted block commodity rate with basic service charge that increases with increasing meter size.

Charles Haynes 4:50

Staff also recommends a $30,000 amount for a rate case expense to be recovered through a monthly surcharge collected over a three-year period.