20091119Staff 147-156 to UWI.pdf

WELDON B. STUTZMAN
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
PO BOX 83720
BOISE, IDAHO 83720-0074
[phone]
BARNO. 3283
KRSTINE A. SASSER
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
PO BOX 83720
BOISE, IDAHO 83720-0074
[phone]
BARNO. 6618
Street Address for Express Mail:
472 W. WASHINGTON
BOISE, IDAHO 83702-5918
Attorneys for the Commission Staff
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BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION
OF UNITED WATER IDAHO INC. FOR
AUTHORITY TO INCREASE ITS RATES
AND CHARGES IN THE STATE OF IDAHO.
)
) CASE NO. UWI-W-09-1
)
)
) SIXTH PRODUCTION
) REQUEST OF THE
) COMMISSION STAFF TO
) UNITED WATER IDAHO INC.
)
The Staff of the Idaho Public Utilties Commission, by and through its attorney of record,
Kristine A. Sasser, Deputy Attorney General, requests that United Water Idaho (Company;
United Water; UWI) provide the following documents and information on or before
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009.
SIXTH PRODUCTION REQUEST
TO UNITED WATER IDAHO 1 NOVEMBER 19,2009
This Production Request is to be considered as continuing, and United Water is requested
to provide, by way of supplementary responses, additional documents that it or any person acting
on its behalf may later obtain that wil augment the documents produced.
Please provide answers to each question, supporting workpapers that provide detail or are
the source of information used in calculations. The Company is reminded that responses
pursuant to Commission Rules of Procedure must include the name and phone number of the
person preparing the document, and the name, location and phone number of the record holder
and if different the witness who can sponsor the answer at hearing if need be. Reference IDAPA
31.01.01.228.
In addition to the written copies provided as response to the questions, please provide all
Excel and electronic fies on CD with formulas activated.
REQUEST NO. 147: For the following accounts, please provide an Excel spreadsheet
with a listing of all transactions for each account by month. Include, for each account, the date
of the transaction, a full description of the transaction, the vendor or payee, line description, the
account booked to, the sub-account booked to, document number such as voucher number or and
any other information pertaining to each transaction.
The following accounts tie back to Workpaper 11.0 -Expenses Not Adjusted:
91860 Other Awards $3,020
91100 Outside Service- Accounting & Auditing $65,536
91200 Outside Service- Legal $16,253
91250 Outside Service- is $142,248
91300 Outside Service- Temp Help $1,401
91350 Outside Service- Other $40,049
50300 Material $202,548
50400/50410 Outside Contractors & OIS Prof Services Ops & Maint $198,192
50410 OIS Prof Services Mellon $54,596
50310 Equip Rental $1,752
50600 Rents $8,276
50620 Other Utilties Ops & Maint $37,673
50650 Meals $10,574
50655 Misc Expenses $135,382
90100 Offce Supplies $45,087
90110 Office Equip Rental $20,262
90150 Dues and Subs $511
90200 Licenses & Fees $10,118
SIXTH PRODUCTION REQUEST
TO UNITED WATER IDAHO 2 NOVEMBER 19, 2009
90250 Telephone & Telemetr $145,018
90300 Other Utils G&A $25,040
90410 Advertising $105,187
90500 Club & Professional Dues $83,763
90600 Travel Expense $37,976
90700 IT Supplies & Expense $33,179
90750 IT System Support $2,968
91455 Injuries & Damages $676
92150 Staff Meetings, Seminars & Conferences $33,874
92200 Clothing & uniforms $25,311
92400 UWCares $6,987
92550 Safety Equipment $17,722
92600 Other Misc G&A $89,928
50400 Customer Service OIS Contractors: Non UBS $38,459
91850 Employee Benefits Other $68,750
91460 Worker Compensation $210,400
91460 Transportation Costs $480,785
91400 &
91450 Business Insurance $406,426
The following accounts tie back to Company Exhibit No. 11, Summar Sheet:
Employee Pension Cost 91500 $738,075
Post Retirement Health Care Accrual 91550 & 92056 $560832
Employee Group Health & Life 91700 $693,321
Employee 401 K 91800 $105,716
Fringe Benefits Transferred 90950 ($820,709)
Purchased Water 50605 $122,590
Purchased Power 50610 $1,510,530
Chemicals 50635 $310,073
UBS Contract Biling & Postage 50400 & 90450 $702,842
Bad Debt Expense 90400 $137,587
Postage & Air Freight: non UBS 90450 $101,610
Lab Testing Fees 50420 $105,899
Amortization of Tan Painting Expense 92053 $14,286
IPUC Annual Assessment 91900 $79,964
M & S Fees 90850-52 $2,425,157
Amortization of Rate Case Expense (Old)92000 $138,263
Amortization of Deferred Power Cost 92061 $109,650
Amortization of Relocation Expense 92052 $16,000
Misc Amortization 92054 $2,400
Amortization of Legal Expense 92058 $2,450
Outside Service M Fee (R+I Allance)
Other 0 eration and Maintenance Ex ense
91310 $203,994
$2,806,264Various
SIXTH PRODUCTION REQUEST
TO UNITED WATER IDAHO 3 NOVEMBER 19, 2009
REQUEST NO. 148: Purchase Card Transactions (P.Card or P-Cards):
1. What is the policy for P.Cards? Please provide a paper copy of the P-Card policy.
2. What are the procedures governing P-Cards? Please provide a paper copy of the
P.Card procedures.
3. Please provide a list of all United Water Idaho employees who are eligible for
P-Cards.
4. Please provide a list of all United Water Idaho employees who have P-Cards.
5. To the extent not previously provided, please provide a paper copy of all policies
relevant to P.Card transactions.
6. Please provide copies or access to the actual biling account statements for all
purchasing cards where expenses are included in the test year.
REQUEST NO. 149: Please provide a summary report that lists projects closed to plant
in service since the last general rate case. Please include on this report the project number,
project description, costs by cost category (payroll, materials and supplies, contract/equipment,
overheads, etc.), total project costs and total transferred to plant in service.
REQUEST NO. 150: Please provide a list of any and all capital expenditure/asset
management reports that list by project its actual costs, budgetar costs, and variance (over/under
budgeted amount). Please include within your response how each report is used and by whom it
is used (for example - report is used to monitor project costs and reallocate capital expenditue
budget as considered necessary and is used by the engineering group (insert employee name and
location here)).
REQUEST NO. 151: Please provide an electronic copy in Excel format with formulas
intact of the preceding reports for 2007, 2008 and 2009 to date. Please update this response
monthly. If the reports are not available in Excel format with formulas intact, please provide a
paper copy of each report.
SIXTH PRODUCTION REQUEST
TO UNITED WATER IDAHO 4 NOVEMBER 19,2009
REQUEST NO. 152: Please provide a detailed description of all capital expenditures
that were deferred, delayed, reduced or otherwise managed to minimize costs in order to reduce
costs. Please explain actions taken by the Company to minimize the impact on customers in the
curent depressed employment and economic climate.
REQUEST NO. 153: In the Company's response to Production Request 54, the
Company states that all calls to the customer service number are handled by customer service
representatives. In response to Production Request 58, the Company quantified those calls on a
monthly basis for 2006 - 2009. In response to Production Request 62, the Company identified
the number of calls categorized under Water Quality, High Bils and Disconnection. According
to Staff calculations, these three categories represent no. more than 7.7 % of calls received in any
single month for the time frame for which the Company provided data. Please provide fuher
breakdown on the remaining incoming calls handled by customer service representatives on a
monthly basis for 2006 - 2009 to date. Please provide the data in an electronically executable
format.
REQUEST NO. 154: In the Company's response to Production Request 53, the
Company detailed the different charges for different types of customer visits. A reconnection
during normal business hours is $20.00; a field collection visit is $15.00, the same as a
temporar disconnection charge. A reconnection after normal business hours is $30.00; a service
connection charge is $25.00, the same as a temporar disconnection charge. Please provide
fuher explanation of the differential in costs for visits during the same time frame. Include
details of any cost of service studies completed for the costs of a visit to a customer and/or
explanation process to perform the different types of visits.
REQUEST NO. 155: In the Company's response to Production Request 46, item 2:
Summer Bil Insert, the Company stated that no insert was distributed in 2009. Please provide
additional explanation of the oversight, and what plans the Company has in place for the 2010
season to provide this information to customers.
SIXTH PRODUCTION REQUEST
TO UNITED WATER IDAHO 5 NOVEMBER 19,2009
REQUEST NO. 156: In the Company's response to Production Request 46, item 1:
Anual Conservation Guide, the Company stated the guide is distributed as a supplement in the
Sunday Idaho Statesman and also made available throughout the year at varied locations. Please
provide additional detail as to the number of guides sent to the Idaho Statesman and each of the
other locations for distribution, and the number of guides the Company distributed at the
different community events.
Dated at Boise, Idaho, this /Cjrf day of November.
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st A. Sasser
Deputy Attorney General
Technical Staff: Kathy Stockton/147-148
Patricia Hars1149-152
Chris Hecht/153-156
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SIXTH PRODUCTION REQUEST
TO UNITED WATER IDAHO 6 NOVEMBER 19, 2009
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I HAVE THIS 19TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 2009,
SERVED THE FOREGOING SIXTH PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE
COMMISSION STAFF TO UNITED WATER IDAHO INC., IN CASE NO.
UWI-W-09-1 BY MAILING A COPY THEREOF, POSTAGE PREPAID, TO THE
FOLLOWING:
KEVIN H. DOHERTY
UNITED WATER IDAHO INC
200 OLD HOOK ROAD
HARRINGTON PARK, NJ 07640
E-MAIL: Kevin.dohertyrgunitedwater.com
DEAN J MILLER
McDEVITT & MILLER LLP
PO BOX 2564
BOISE ID 83701
E-MAIL: joergmcdevitt-miler.com
BRAD M. PURDY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
2019 N 17TH STREET
BOISE ID 83702
E-MAIL: bmpurdyrghotmaiL.com
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE