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Carefree residents: Remember last year when Liberty Utilities had proposed to raise our sewer rates by 42%? Although I don’t live in Carefree, I was going to be impacted by the increase and I filed as an Intervener in the Liberty case with the Arizona Corporate Commission (ACC). But I needed some technical help. John […] ....
We won a reduction in the propose rate from about 42% to about 15%! We lost a further reduction to ZERO increase! Three ACC Commissioners proposed amendments to the Judge’s Recommended Opinion and Order (ROO) further reducing our monthly payment. These were profoundly opposed by the Liberty attorney who declared the Commissioners’ amendments would drive utility investment away from the State of Arizona. The attorney and the president of Liberty frequently declared that we ratepayers “got exactly what we bargained for, the closing of the plant, allegedly at $15 rate increase agreed upon in 2008”. The only problem is that, the $15 rate increase was over a then $48 / month rate, and very few of us current 2,450 ratepayers were involved in this agreement. In fact, only about 10% of us were involved. ....