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HomeMy Public PortalAboutExhibit MSD 81 - Transcript of the July 10, 2018 Public Hearing METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 7/10/2018 www.alaris.us Phone: 1.800.280.3376 Fax: 314.644.1334 ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES Page 1 1 MEETING OF THE RATE COMMISSION OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 2 2018 STORMWATER RATE CHANGE PROCEEDING 3 4 5 6 7 8 PUBLIC HEARING 9 JULY 10, 2018 10 8:00 A.M. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Reported by: 19 BETH O. ZINK, RPR, CCR, CSR ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES 20 711 North 11th Street St. Louis, Missouri 63101 21 (314)644-2191 22 23 24 25 METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 7/10/2018 www.alaris.us Phone: 1.800.280.3376 Fax: 314.644.1334 ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES Page 2 1 I N D E X 2 3 PAGE 4 Call to Order 5 5 QUESTIONS OF RATE COMMISSIONERS 6 Questions by Commissioner Brockmann 11 7 Questions by Chairman Toenjes 11 8 Public Hearing Adjourned 13 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 7/10/2018 www.alaris.us Phone: 1.800.280.3376 Fax: 314.644.1334 ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES Page 3 1 APPEARANCES 2 3 Lisa Stump, Attorney at Law Brian J. Malone, Attorney at Law 4 Lashly & Baer, P.C. 714 Locust Street 5 St. Louis, Missouri 63101 (314)621-2939 6 lstump@lashlybaer.com bmalone@lashlybaer.com 7 FOR: The Rate Commission 8 Brandon Neuschafer, Attorney at Law Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner 9 One Metropolitan Square 211 North Broadway, Suite 3600 10 St. Louis, Missouri 63102 (314)259-2050 11 brandon.neuschafer@bryancave.com FOR: Missouri Industrial Energy 12 Consumers 13 Susan M. Myers, General Counsel Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District 14 2350 Market Street St. Louis, Missouri 63103 15 (314)768-6209 smyers@stlmsd.com 16 FOR: Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District 17 18 Also Present: Brian Hoelscher Richard Unverferth 19 Pamela Lemoine Nicole Young 20 21 22 23 24 25 METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 7/10/2018 www.alaris.us Phone: 1.800.280.3376 Fax: 314.644.1334 ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES Page 4 1 APPEARANCES CONTINUED 2 3 4 COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: 5 Leonard Toenjes, Chair Mickey Croyle 6 Tom Ratzki John L. Stein 7 Paul Brockmann Russell Hawes 8 Mark Schoedel Steve Mahfood 9 Chan Mahanta Brad Goss 10 Gerald Beckmann Lloyd Palans 11 Paul Ziegler 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 7/10/2018 www.alaris.us Phone: 1.800.280.3376 Fax: 314.644.1334 ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES Page 5 1 (The public hearing commenced at 8:00 A.M.) 2 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Good morning. We will call 3 this meeting of the Rate Commission of the Metropolitan 4 St. Louis Sewer District to order. Mr. Schoedel, will you 5 take the roll, please. 6 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Gerald Beckmann. 7 COMMISSIONER BECKMANN: Present. 8 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Paul Brockmann. 9 COMMISSIONER BROCKMANN: Present. 10 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Don Bresnan. Mickey 11 Croyle. 12 COMMISSIONER CROYLE: Present. 13 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Brad Goss. Russell 14 Hawes. 15 COMMISSIONER HAWES: Present. 16 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Kennard Jones. Chan 17 Mahanta. 18 COMMISSIONER MAHANTA: Present. 19 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Steve Mahfood. Lloyd 20 Palans. 21 COMMISSIONER PALANS: Present. 22 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Tom Ratzki. 23 COMMISSIONER RATZKI: Here. 24 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Mark Schoedel. Jack 25 Stein. METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 7/10/2018 www.alaris.us Phone: 1.800.280.3376 Fax: 314.644.1334 ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES Page 6 1 COMMISSIONER STEIN: Present. 2 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Leonard Toenjes. 3 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Present. 4 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Paul Ziegler. 5 COMMISSIONER ZIEGLER: Here. 6 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Mr. Chairman, we have 7 a quorum. 8 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you. I appreciate 9 that. My name is Leonard Toenjes and I am the chair of 10 the Rate Commission of the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer 11 District and will serve as chair of this proceeding. 12 Present are the Rate Commissioners who just identified 13 themselves during the roll call. 14 The Charter Plan of the District was approved 15 by the voters of St. Louis and St. Louis County at a 16 special election on February 9, 1954, and amended at a 17 general election on November 7, 2000. The amendment to 18 the Charter Plan established a Rate Commission to review 19 and make recommendations to the District regarding changes 20 in wastewater rates, stormwater rates and tax rates 21 proposed by the District. 22 Upon receipt of a Rate Change Notice from the 23 District, the Rate Commission is to recommend to the Board 24 of Trustees changes in a wastewater, stormwater, or tax 25 rate necessary to pay (i) interest and principal falling METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 7/10/2018 www.alaris.us Phone: 1.800.280.3376 Fax: 314.644.1334 ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES Page 7 1 due on bonds issued to finance assets of the District, 2 (ii) the costs of operation and maintenance and (iii) such 3 amounts as may be required to cover emergencies and 4 anticipated delinquencies. 5 Further, any change in a rate recommended to 6 the Board of Trustees by the Rate Commission is to be 7 accompanied by a statement that the proposed rate change 8 is (i) consistent with constitutional, statutory or common 9 law as amended from time to time; (ii) enhances the 10 District's ability to provide adequate sewer and drainage 11 systems and facilities, or related services; (iii) is 12 consistent with and not in violation of any covenant or 13 provision relating to any outstanding bonds or 14 indebtedness of the District; (iv) does not impair the 15 ability of the District to comply with applicable Federal 16 or State laws or regulations as amended from time to time; 17 and (v) imposes a fair and reasonable burden on all 18 classes of ratepayers. 19 The Rate Commission received a Rate Change 20 Notice from the District on February 26, 2018. Under 21 procedural rules adopted by the Rate Commission, any 22 person affected by the Rate Change Proposal had an 23 opportunity to submit an application to intervene in these 24 proceedings. An application to intervene was filed by the 25 Missouri Industrial Energy Consumers. METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 7/10/2018 www.alaris.us Phone: 1.800.280.3376 Fax: 314.644.1334 ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES Page 8 1 The Rate Commission originally had until June 2 26, 2018 to issue its report on the proposed Rate Change 3 Notice to the Board of Trustees of the District. The Rate 4 Commission requested an additional 45 days to issue its 5 report, and on May 1st, 2018 the District Board of 6 Trustees granted the Rate Commission's request. The Rate 7 Commission must now issue its report on or before August 8 10, 2018. 9 Since February 26th, 2018 the Rate Commission 10 has received testimony from district staff, the intervenor 11 and the rate consultant. The parties have also engaged in 12 discovery requests. Technical conferences were held on 13 April 4th, 2018, May 17th, 2018 and June 7th, 2018. At 14 each of these the participants and the Rate Commission 15 were given an opportunity to ask questions of those 16 submitting testimony. 17 A pre-hearing conference for the purpose of 18 identifying any issues raised by the rate setting 19 documents and the prepared testimony submitted was 20 conducted on the record on June 21st, 2018. Each 21 participant in the pre-hearing conference submitted on or 22 before June 28, 2018 a pre-hearing conference report 23 describing the issues raised by the rate setting documents 24 and the prepared testimony, together with a brief 25 description of such participants' position, if any, on METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 7/10/2018 www.alaris.us Phone: 1.800.280.3376 Fax: 314.644.1334 ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES Page 9 1 each issue and the rationale therefore. 2 The public hearing was commenced on June 29th, 3 2018. The Rate Commission heard comments from the public 4 and received closing statements from the District, counsel 5 for Intervenor, Missouri Industrial Energy Consumers, and 6 from the Rate Commission's legal counsel. Exhibits 7 previously submitted were entered into the record. 8 In accordance with the revised procedural 9 schedule adopted on May 27th, 2018, the District, MIEC and 10 the Rate Commission's legal counsel filed their 11 pre-conference reports on June 28, 2018. Since these 12 reports were submitted the day before the final public 13 hearing, the public hearing was left open so that 14 commissioners could more thoroughly review the reports and 15 ask additional questions of the participants. Who is here 16 on behalf of Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District? 17 MS. MYERS: I am, Susan Myers. 18 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Who is here on behalf of 19 Intervenor Missouri Industrial Energy Consumers? 20 MR. NEUSCHAFER: Brandon Neuschafer. 21 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Also present are Lisa Stump 22 and Brian Malone of Lashly Baer, legal counsel to the Rate 23 Commission. Are there any procedural matters? Hearing 24 none, does any participant wish to add additional exhibits 25 to supplement those submitted on June 29, 2018? METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 7/10/2018 www.alaris.us Phone: 1.800.280.3376 Fax: 314.644.1334 ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES Page 10 1 MS. MYERS: Do you -- go ahead. 2 MS. STUMP: Mr. Chairman, we would like to 3 note that there were additional exhibits that have been 4 added, and MSD 77 is the exhibit list as of July 2nd, so 5 we would like to include the exhibits up to that date. 6 Also, there was an exhibit, Rate Commission 78, which was 7 a sales and use tax rate that was also filed. And then 8 finally, we would like to note for the record that there 9 will be two additional transcripts that have not yet been 10 provided. MSD 79 will be the transcript of the June 21st 11 pre-hearing conference, and MSD 80 will be the transcript 12 of the June 29th public hearing, and then finally if we 13 reserve MSD 81 to be the transcript from today's public 14 hearing. 15 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Ms. Stump. Any 16 comments from the Rate Commissioners on those exhibits? 17 All right. All the documents identified will be admitted 18 into evidence in this rate change proceeding. 19 This is the final opportunity for the Rate 20 Commissioners to ask questions. Upon the conclusion of 21 this public hearing session, the 2018 stormwater rate 22 change proceeding will be closed and the Rate Commission 23 will begins its deliberations. So I'll ask at this time 24 do any Rate Commissioners have any final questions for any 25 of the various parties regarding any issue or element of METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 7/10/2018 www.alaris.us Phone: 1.800.280.3376 Fax: 314.644.1334 ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES Page 11 1 the proposed rate change? 2 COMMISSIONER BROCKMANN: I have a question. 3 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Mr. Brockmann. 4 COMMISSIONER BROCKMANN: Ms. Myers, the last 5 time we met you made a distinction between this group 6 considering fair and reasonable versus what's most fair 7 and reasonable. What's the difference in the criteria 8 between those two in your evaluation? 9 MR. MYERS: The reason I made a distinction 10 between fair and reasonable and most fair and reasonable 11 is because I think the Commission here has heard there are 12 different ways of measuring and developing an impervious 13 rate to be used, and so the District has chosen a method 14 that we thought was best for us for the District and for 15 our ratepayers to use, and we feel that that method is 16 fair and reasonable. 17 In addition, that there are other methods out 18 there to be considered, but we decided that the method 19 that we proposed was what was most fair and reasonable for 20 our district. 21 COMMISSIONER BROCKMANN: Thank you. 22 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Any other questions or 23 comments from any of the other Rate Commissioners? I have 24 one question for Mr. Hoelscher. At the last public 25 hearing there was some discussion about changes that were METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 7/10/2018 www.alaris.us Phone: 1.800.280.3376 Fax: 314.644.1334 ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES Page 12 1 ongoing with the consent decree and the impact that that 2 may have on future rate proceedings as we move away from 3 stormwater back to wastewater. Could you just provide a 4 current up-to-date status report of where that -- where we 5 are in the consent decree and any changes ongoing? 6 MR. HOELSCHER: The situation is essentially 7 the same as what I described -- as I last described. The 8 judge has issued the order that has put the consent decree 9 change into place. I'll be very brief. We've moved up by 10 five years work that needs to be done on solids handling 11 with incinerators, supposed to start in 2026, will now 12 start in 2021, and we've taken the tunneling work as part 13 of the CSO program that was supposed to start the 14 additional tunnels in 2021, moved those back to start 15 2026. 16 We've also added those five years onto the 17 edge of the schedule since those tunnels were the last 18 piece that was supposed to be done. We know it's going to 19 have a positive impact on the rate projections that we 20 provided the Rate Commission in the last wastewater 21 proposal. At the last Wastewater Rate Commission meeting 22 when we set the rates for 2017 to 2020, I think we 23 projected getting close to about a 50 percent increase 24 over four years from 2020 to 2024. Right now we believe 25 that's going to be significantly less for a lot of METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 7/10/2018 www.alaris.us Phone: 1.800.280.3376 Fax: 314.644.1334 ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES Page 13 1 reasons, one of those being the change in the consent 2 decree. 3 We are right now starting the process of 4 developing the wastewater rate proposal, so I don't have 5 any detailed numbers. That's the best I can give you 6 right now. We know it will have a positive effect. I 7 think the one thing that was indicated in the consent 8 decree approval by the judge that we know is positive is 9 that we're not looking at any more double digit increases 10 for the duration of the consent decree and I believe that 11 was stated in the document. 12 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you. Anyone else 13 have any further questions for any of the parties involved 14 in this rate proposal? Hearing none, the chair would 15 accept a motion to adjourn this public hearing and begin 16 deliberations. 17 COMMISSIONER BROCKMANN: So moved. 18 COMMISSIONER STEIN: Second. 19 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Motion made and seconded. 20 All in favor, signify by saying aye. 21 (All say aye.) 22 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Opposed? Abstain? Thank 23 you. We will adjourn the public hearing and begin 24 deliberations. 25 (The public hearing adjourned at 8:15 A.M.) METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 7/10/2018 www.alaris.us Phone: 1.800.280.3376 Fax: 314.644.1334 ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES Page 14 1 CERTIFICATE OF REPORTER 2 3 I, BETH O. ZINK, a Registered Professional 4 Reporter, Missouri Certified Court Reporter, Illinois 5 Certified Shorthand Reporter and Notary Public within and 6 for the State of Illinois, do hereby certify that the 7 foregoing proceeding was taken by me to the best of my 8 ability and thereafter reduced to typewriting under my 9 direction; that I am neither counsel for, related to, nor 10 employed by any of the parties to the action in which this 11 proceeding was held, and further, that I am not a relative 12 or employee of any attorney or counsel employed by the 13 parties thereto, nor financially or otherwise interested 14 in the outcome of the action. 15 16 17 ________________________________ 18 Beth O. Zink, RPR, CCR, CSR 19 MOCCR#799; ILCSR#084-004477 20 21 22 My commission expires August 3rd, 2018. 23 24 25 METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT 7/10/2018 www.alaris.us Phone: 1.800.280.3376 Fax: 314.644.1334 ALARIS LITIGATION SERVICES METROPOLITAN ST. 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