20070124min.doc

IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

MINUTES OF DECISION MEETING

January 24, 2007 – 1:30 P.M.

In attendance were Commissioners Paul Kjellander, Marsha Smith and Dennis Hansen.

Commissioner Kjellander called the meeting to order. The first order of business was approval of MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS MEETING on January 16, 2007. Commissioner Kjellander moved for approval of the minutes. A vote was taken on the motion and it carried unanimously.

The second order of business was approval of the CONSENT AGENDA, items 2 and 3. There was no discussion and Commissioner Kjellander moved for approval of the Consent Agenda. A vote was taken on the motion and it carried unanimously.

The next order of business was MATTERS IN PROGRESS:

Daniel Klein’s January 22, 2007 Decision Memorandum re: Formal Complaint of Bill Uhl and Doris Helge.

Mr. Klein reviewed his Decision Memo. He added that Staff had a different recommendation than what it had proposed in the Decision Memo. He said instead of issuing a Summons to Rural Telephone asking it to respond to the various sub-issues, it might be better for the Commission to issue an order addressing all the issues that have already been decided in the past case and instructing the company to fix its disconnect notice, comply with the Commission’s Telephone Consumer Relations Rules and answer the complaint about changing the customers’ service from residential to a business class of service.

Commissioner Smith stated it is always better if the utility doesn’t go to war with its individual customers, so this complaint would be a prime candidate to have a Commission investigation into the adequacy of the company’s termination notices and its policy for the classification of customers as residential or business. She made a motion to accept Staff’s new recommendation to open an investigation into this matter, outlining what we have already decided in previous orders that relates to the customers’ comments and looking into those issues that might need to be fixed. There was no further discussion. A vote was taken on the motion and it carried unanimously.

Donovan Walker’s January 22, 2007 Decision Memorandum re: Idaho Power’s Applicatin for Approval of a Power Purchase Agreement with Telocaset Wind Power Partners, LLC, Case No. IPC-E-06-31.

Mr. Walker reviewed his Decision Memo. He reported that Staff had met with Idaho Power and Horizon Wind to discuss issues related to discovery and processing the case. He said that although there had been no request by the company to process the matter within any time frame, there is a February 28th deadline for the developer, so Staff is requesting a comment deadline of February 22, 2007.

Commissioner Smith questioned why we even needed to use modified procedure, given that we didn’t receive any requests for intervention and we already have comments from the Northwest Energy Coalition and Renewable Northwest Project. She asked if Staff has issues it needs to work out. Mr. Walker replied that Staff has numerous discovery requests pending and several issues it is still investigating.

Commissioner Kjellander made a motion to accept Staff’s recommendation to use modified procedure and set the comment deadline for February 22nd. There was no further discussion. A vote was taken on the motion and it carried unanimously.

There were no other items on the agenda and Commissioner Kjellander adjourned the meeting.

DATED this ______ day of January, 2007.

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COMMISSION SECRETARY