20241226Comment_1.pdf

The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Brian Ritchie
Submission Time: Dec 26 2024 7:31AM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 8290 W Golse Cir
Boise, ID 83704
Name of Utility Company:Veolia
Case ID: VEO-W-24-01
Comment: "First, our only notification for this report was a mailer delivered by Veolia in mid-December.
Given that the requested rate change date is 12/23/2024,there was not enough time between receipt of
the mailer to review the report and provide comment. Second, is the normal public utility process to
allow the utility to make significant investment leading to a 20% rate increase without prior oversight of
the investment plans?This seems backwards. How can a business invest so significantly without knowing
it will receive a return on the investment? How can I as a customer make sufficient argument against a
rate increase when the costs for the rate increase have already been expended?This is backwards. What
do I have left to me but to complain about the 20% rate increase being a significant increase? I can't
make any arguments about the costs behind the request for rate increase, because the costs have
already been realized. This approach puts everyone in the wrong position if the intent is to enable
substantive debate over proposed rate increases-from the business,to the customers,to the
commission.The debate should be occurring before the expenditures that would require rate increases.
There should be oversight at the investment planning stage.Thank you."
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