960402.docx

DECISION MEMORANDUM
TO:COMMISSIONER NELSON
COMMISSIONER SMITH
COMMISSIONER HANSEN
MYRNA WALTERS
TONYA CLARK
DON HOWELL
STEPHANIE MILLER
DAVID SCHUNKE
EILEEN BENNER
JOE CUSICK
BILL EASTLAKE
BIRDELLE BROWN
GARY RICHARDSON
WORKING FILE
FROM:JIM LONG
DATE:APRIL 2, 1996
RE:HORSESHOE BEND PETITION FOR TOLL RELIEF TO BOISE, IDAHO CITY, EMMETT, GARDEN VALLEY, LOWMAN AND CASCADE.
BACKGROUND:
On March 6, the Commission received a petition signed by 245 people in the Garden    Valley exchange of Citizens Telephone Company asking for toll relief to USWC’s Idaho City and    Boise exchanges as well as the Horseshoe Bend (Citizens) and Lowman (Cambridge) exchanges.  On March 29, the Commission received an additional petition signed by 240 people mostly from the Horseshoe Bend exchange of Citizens Telephone Company asking for toll relief to Garden Valley, Cascade (Citizens), Emmett, Boise, Idaho City (U S WEST) and Lowman (Cambridge) exchanges.
In this request, the petitioners point to the following factors as evidence of a
need for toll relief:  “can’t call anywhere for business or Dr. appointments.”
COMMISSION DECISION:  
Does the Commission want to add this petition to Case No. GNR-T-96-2 which addresses toll relief from Garden Valley over many of these same routes or establish a different case?
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Jim Long
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