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

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What is discussed at the beginning of the hearing and who appears on record?

Belinda Martin 0:01

Let's go ahead and go on the record. And this is the time set for public comment and docket numbers W No, wrong one. Yes, no, that's right. Sorry. W dash zero one four two seven A dash two five uh dash zero one two six and s w Uh Dash zero one four two eight A Dash two five. Dash zero one two seven for rate increases for the water and wastewater divisions for Liberty Litchfield. And docket numbers W dash zero one four two seven A-25-0163 and SW-01428A-25-0163. Approval of a financing application. Welcome everybody to the Commission. Um my name is Belinda Martin, the administrative law judge assigned to this matter. Um and what I would Do first well, let's go ahead and take appearances for today. I'm appearing on behalf of Liberty Litchfield.

Tim Sabo 1:09

Good morning, Your Honor. Tim Sabo with the law firm of Osborne Malladon, appearing on behalf of the applicant. And also uh with me is Stephen Amidity. Uh the director of legal services.

Belinda Martin 1:22

Thank you. And on behalf of Ruco.

Sarah Barrios Cool 1:24

Good morning, Your Honor, Sarah Barrios Cool and with me is Chief Counsel Dan Pasetsky.

Bridget Humphrey 1:29

All right. And on behalf of staff. Good morning, Your Honor Bridget Humphrey and Maureen Scott on behalf of the Utilities Division staff. Thank you.

Belinda Martin 1:38

Okay. Um I see we have um one person online. Do we have anybody here in the room that's wishing to make public comment? Okay, then let me go to our person online. Um Ms. Corbett, uh can you hear me if you push star six? Um you should be able to unmute your microphone.

Belinda Martin 2:05

There you go. Can you hear me okay? Good morning. Good morning.

Leander Corbett 2:08

Yes, good morning. Okay. Um my name is Leander Corbett. I'm seventy three years old. Uh I actually grew up in the Midwest before moving to Tucson, Arizona in two thousand and four. I'm married. I have two older sons who have uh given me Four persons grandchildren. Although we are retired or supposed to be. My husband is still holding three jobs to make him meet. despite a all of our hard work throughout our long careers. And due to the con current and state of the economy. And all of the rising living expenses, we are quite stressed. And overwhelm. We are on a very fixed income. And our rent is two thousand dollars per month. Top of that Our landlord charges us two dollars and ninety nine cents service fee on the portal each month.

Leander Corbett 3:15

Process. our rent payment. If we have any Maintenance issues, we also have to go through the portal and pay two ninety nine. Um We're kind of turned. Whoops. Cut out a little bit there. I'm sorry.

Belinda Martin 3:37

You cut out a little bit. Can you say that?

Leander Corbett 3:41

Okay, I said we're kind of terrified right now that our landlord is going to raise the rent. Um our insurance costs are up to seven hundred and twenty five dollars. average per month. And uh this is actually going to increase even more. They starting next month. All of our costs had been steadily increasing. including the cost to my medication than my husband's co pays on his Medicare supplements. the r I guess a retirement dream. going out once in a while to spend time with friends or just enjoy life without feeling guilty is really becoming impossible. We are at a point. That we know it will break our budget. Our kids and grandkids they live in Georgia and Nebraska. So we usually have to miss important moments with our family.

Leander Corbett 4:42

We miss our grandchildren's birthday. We miss our holidays with them and we also miss celebrating with friends. Having to constantly make excuses about why we can't It can be moments and It's painful. I have been a Tucson electric power customer since two thousand and four.

Belinda Martin 5:06

Oh dear. Oh dear. Hold on. I

Leander Corbett 5:08

had a series

Belinda Martin 5:09

Miss Corbett, hold on. I neglected to ask you which company we have two public comments going on right now. And they've stuck you in the wrong one, I think. So if Let's go off the record and I will go see what we can do to get you over to T E P.

How does the public‑comment portion unfold and why does the online caller get redirected?

Belinda Martin 5:23

I am so sorry. I didn't check. Hold on.

Unknown 5:52

Yeah.

Belinda Martin 7:31

All right, let's go back on the record. Um

Leander Corbett 7:35

are you wanting me to

Belinda Martin 7:37

start over again? Well, no, here's what here's what I need you to do. This is for a different company. So there were two public comments being held today, one for TEP and one for this one for uh Liberty.