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1 MEETING OF THE RATE COMMISSION OF THE
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Exhibit MSD 91
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3 WITNESS: Mr. Richard L. Unverferth
4 Questions by Mr. Neuschafer 13
Questions by Ms. Stump 33
5 Questions by Ms. Myers 35
Questions by Commissioner Stein 38
6 Questions by Commissioner Palans 42
Questions by Commissioner Beckmann 49
7 Questions by Commissioner Croyle 51
Questions by Chairman Toenjes 52
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9 WITNESS: Mr. Thomas A. Beckley
10 Questions by Mr. Neuschafer 53
Questions by Ms. Myers 60
11 Questions by Chairman Toenjes 64
Questions by Commissioner Goss 66
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13 WITNESS: Mr. William Stannard
14 Questions by Mr. Neuschafer 68
Questions by Ms. Myers 81
15 Questions by Commissioner Stein 82
Questions by Commissioner Goss 86
16 Questions by Chairman Toenjes 94
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19 Questions by Ms. Myers 97
Questions by Commissioner Palans 105
20 Questions by Commissioner Schoedel 117
Questions by Commissioner Brockmann 118
21 Questions by Commissioner Goss 119
Questions by Chairman Toenjes 122
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1 WITNESS: Ms. Bethany Pugh
2 Questions by Ms. Myers 125
Questions by Commissioner Stein 119
3 Questions by Commissioner Palans 131
4 WITNESS: Mr. Tim R. Snoke
5 Questions by Chairman Toenjes 136
Questions by Mr. Neuschafer 137
6 Questions by Ms. Stump 139
Questions by Ms. Myers 142
7 Questions by Commissioner Palans 152
Questions by Commissioner Goss 158
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Questions by Commission Palans 167
11 Questions by Commissioner Goss 171
Questions by Chairman Toenjes 174
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Questions by Commissioner Goss 185
13 Questions by Commissioner Palans 190
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15 Questions by Mr. Neuschafer 193
Questions by Ms. Stump 197
16 Questions by Commissioner Goss 201
Questions by Chairman Toenjes 210
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1 A P P E A R A N C E S
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3 Ms. Lisa Stump
Mr. Brian J. Malone
4 LASHLY & BAER, PC
714 Locust Street
5 St. Louis, MO 63101
(314) 621-2939
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bmalone@lashlybaer.com
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BRYAN CAVE, LLP
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St. Louis, MO 63101
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METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT
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1 COMMISSIONERS PRESENT:
2 Mr. Leonard Toenjes, Chair
Mr. Jerry Beckmann
3 Mr. Paul Brockmann
Ms. Mickey Croyle
4 Mr. Brad Goss
Mr. Russell Hawes
5 Mr. Chan Mahanta
Mr. Lloyd Palans
6 Mr. Tom Ratzki (via phone)
Mr. Mark Schoedel
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1 (Technical Conference commenced at 9:00 a.m.)
2 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Good morning. Being 9:00
3 o'clock, we will call to order this meeting of the Rate
4 Commission of the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District for
5 the 2019 wastewater rate change proceeding. My name is Len
6 Toenjes, and I am Chair of the Rate Commission of the
7 Metropolitan Sewer District and will serve as Chair of this
8 proceeding. Let's take the roll call. Mr. Schoedel.
9 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Thank you. Jerry
10 Beckmann.
11 COMMISSIONER BECKMANN: Present.
12 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Brandy Bowdry. Paul
13 Brockmann.
14 COMMISSIONER BROCKMANN: Present.
15 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Don Bresnan. Mickey
16 Croyle.
17 COMMISSIONER CROYLE: Present.
18 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Brad Goss.
19 COMMISSIONER GOSS: Present.
20 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Russell Hawes.
21 COMMISSION HAWES: Present.
22 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Chan Mahanta.
23 MR. MAHFOOD: Present.
24 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Steve Mahfood. Lloyd
25 Palans.
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1 COMMISSIONER PALANS: Present.
2 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Tom Ratzki?
3 COMMISSIONER RATZKI: On the phone.
4 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Mark Schoedel. Jack
5 Stein.
6 COMMISSIONER STEIN: Present.
7 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Leonard Toenjes? And
8 Paul Ziegler. Chairman, we have a quorum.
9 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Schoedel.
10 The Charter Plan of the District was approved by the voters
11 of St. Louis and St. Louis County at a special election on
12 February 9th, 1954, and amended at a general election on
13 November 7th, 2000. The amendment to the Charter Plan
14 established the Rate Commission to review and make
15 recommendations to the District regarding changes in
16 wastewater rates, storm water rates and tax rates proposed
17 by the District.
18 The Charter Plan requires the Board of
19 Trustees of the District to select organizations to name
20 delegates to the Rate Commission, to ensure a fair
21 representation of all users of the District's services.
22 The Rate Commission representative organizations are to
23 represent commercial industrial users, residential users
24 and other organizations interested in the operation of the
25 District, including organizations focusing on environmental
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1 issues, labor issues, socioeconomic issues, community
2 neighborhood organizations and other nonprofit
3 organizations.
4 The Rate Commission currently consists of
5 representatives of Associated General Contractors of
6 Missouri, St. Louis County Municipal League, Lutheran
7 Senior Services, St. Louis Council of Construction
8 Consumers, Greater St. Louis Labor Council, Missouri
9 Botanical Garden, Mound City Bar Association, League of
10 Women Voters of Metro St. Louis, Home Builder's
11 Association, North County, Inc., Missouri Coalition for the
12 Environment, City of Ladue, Engineers Club of St. Louis,
13 Missouri Industrial Energy Consumers and Education Plus.
14 Upon receipt of a Rate Change Notice from the
15 District, the Rate Commission is to recommend to the Board
16 of Trustees changes in a wastewater, storm water or tax
17 rate necessary to pay interest and principal falling due on
18 bonds issued to finance assets of the District, the cost of
19 operation and maintenance, and such amounts as may be
20 required to cover emergencies and anticipated
21 delinquencies.
22 Further, any change in a rate recommended to
23 the Board of Trustees by the Rate Commission is to be
24 accompanied by a statement that the proposed rate change is
25 consistent with constitutional, statutory or common law as
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1 amended from time to time, enhances the District's ability
2 to provide adequate sewer and drainage systems and
3 facilities or related services, is consistent with and not
4 in violation of any covenant or provision relating to any
5 outstanding bonds or indebtedness of the District, does not
6 impair the ability of the District to comply with
7 applicable federal or state laws or regulations as amended
8 from time to time and imposes a fair and reasonable burden
9 on all classes of rate pays.
10 The Rate Commission received a Rate Change
11 Notice from the District on March 4th, 2019. Under the
12 District's Charter Plan, the Rate Commission must, on or
13 before July 2nd, 2019, issue its report on the proposed
14 Rate Change Notice to the Board of Trustees of the District
15 unless the Board of Trustees, upon application of the Rate
16 Commission, extends the period of time for the issuance of
17 the Rate Commission report for an additional 45-day period.
18 At its meeting on March 4th, 2019, the Board
19 of Trustees approved the Rate Commission's request for an
20 extension. The Rate Commission's report on the proposed
21 rate change must now be issued on or before August 16th,
22 2019. On March 4th, 2019, the District submitted to the
23 Rate Commission prepared direct testimony of Brian
24 Hoelscher, Susan Myers, Richard L. Unverferth, Brett A.
25 Berthold, Marion M. Gee, Tim R. Snoke, Bethany Pugh,
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1 William Stannard and Thomas A. Beckley.
2 On April 8th, 2019, the Technical Conference
3 was held on the record regarding the rate setting documents
4 and the direct testimony filed with the Rate Commission by
5 the District. The purpose of the Technical Conference was
6 to provide the District an opportunity to answer questions
7 propounded by members of the Rate Commission, then by any
8 Intervenor and finally by Lashly & Baer, legal counsel to
9 the Rate Commission.
10 On April 23rd, 2019, the Rate Commission,
11 consultants and Intervenor Missouri Industrial Energy
12 Consumers submitted rebuttal testimony. On May 9th, 2019,
13 the Technical Conference was held on the record regarding
14 the rebuttal testimony by the Intervenor and rate
15 consultants. Written discovery requests have been made
16 between the parties throughout these proceedings. All
17 responses are included in the record on the Rate Commission
18 website. Rate payers who do not wish to intervene are and
19 have been permitted to participate in a series of
20 on-the-record public hearing sessions, which began on May
21 14th, 2019.
22 This Technical Conference will be held on the
23 record regarding the surrebuttal testimony filed. Each
24 person submitting surrebuttal testimony shall answer
25 questions propounded by members of the Rate Commission, our
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1 legal counsel and other parties.
2 Before we proceed with the testimony, I would
3 like for the Rate Commissioners to review the minutes of
4 the May 9th, 2019, meeting for review and/or approval. The
5 motion made, seconded, to approve the May 9th minutes as
6 presented. All in favor, signify by saying aye.
7 COMMISSIONERS:
8 ALL: Aye.
9 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Opposed? Minutes are
10 approved. Thank you. Who is here on behalf of the
11 Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District?
12 MS. MYERS: Susan Myers.
13 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Who is here on behalf of
14 the Missouri Industrial Energy Consumers?
15 MR. NEUSCHAFER: Brandon Neuschafer.
16 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Also present are Pam
17 Lemoine of Black & Veatch Consultants to the Rate
18 Commission, and Lisa Stump and Brian Malone of Lashly &
19 Baer, legal counsel to the Rate Commission. I understand
20 that Nicole Young of Lion, CSG is present via phone;
21 correct?
22 MS. LEMOINE: Correct.
23 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Under the Rate Commission's
24 operational rules, no person shall be required to answer
25 questions for a period of more than three hours, and the
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1 time shall be evenly divided among all of the participants
2 desiring to ask questions. Following questions by members
3 of the Rate Commission, I will attempt to allocate the time
4 equally among the participants and our legal counsel. To
5 the extent that the District, the Intervenor or legal
6 counsel has not completed questions at the expiration of
7 that person's allotted time and to the extent that time
8 remains, such persons will at least be permitted to
9 propound additional questions until the three hours has
10 expired.
11 Are there any procedural matters? I am going
12 to ask the Rate Commissioners and those testifying to be
13 sure to use the microphone so our court reporter can
14 understand and hear clearly.
15 Since there are no further procedural matters,
16 Ms. Myers, are you agreeing to present those persons for
17 whom you filed surrebuttal testimony on behalf of the
18 District?
19 MS. MYERS: We are, yes.
20 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Please proceed.
21 MS. MYERS: Okay. Our first witness will be
22 Rich Unverferth.
23 (Witness sworn in.)
24 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Does any member of the Rate
25 Commission have questions for Mr. Unverferth?
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1 Mr. Neuschafer, do you have any questions for
2 Mr. Unverferth?
3 MR. NEUSCHAFER: I do.
4 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Please come forward.
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6 RICHARD UNVERFERTH,
7 being produced, sworn and examined, deposes and says:
8 EXAMINATION
9 QUESTIONS BY MR. NEUSCHAFER:
10 Q Good morning.
11 A Good morning.
12 Q I assume you have in front of you a copy of
13 your surrebuttal testimony?
14 A I do.
15 Q Okay. I wanted to spend some time talking
16 about projects and scheduling of the projects. And if I
17 understand MSD's testimony correctly, there is no
18 discretion in the schedule that has been created and put
19 forward for projects for this rate cycle; is that correct?
20 A That is correct.
21 Q When was -- When did MSD establish the
22 schedule of projects for this upcoming rate schedule?
23 A Primarily over the last -- Well, obviously, a
24 portion of it was part of the consent decree, so that
25 schedule has been established since we entered the consent
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1 decree. The schedule that includes the non consent decree
2 on the regulatory projects was probably established over
3 the last several years. Part of that was a negotiation
4 with the EPA, the major project, incinerator project. The
5 remainder of the projects are the asset management
6 projects, and the upkeep and maintenance and operation of
7 our treatment plants. Those we do evaluations over a
8 period and generally we're scheduling over a period of
9 about four years, but we probably fine-tuned it probably in
10 the last year, two years.
11 Q Okay. So at least for those consent decree
12 projects and regulatory projects, is it fair to say that
13 schedule was established prior to MSD diving into the
14 analysis of the rates that were going to be proposed as
15 part of this cycle?
16 A That would be a fair statement.
17 Q Okay. And when -- when those -- When those
18 timelines were established, did MSD give consideration to
19 the amount spent or potential impact on rates of schedules
20 that were being corrected?
21 A Oh, yes, we -- Our entire consent decree, the
22 23 years, was negotiated with the thought of impacts of
23 rate payers in mind. The major components of CSO long-term
24 control plan, which is approximately a two billion dollar
25 program over the life of the consent decree, had
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1 significant public input on actual alternatives to address
2 combined sewer overflows and was used to help develop the
3 actual plan.
4 The SSO master plan, basically we had to have
5 overflows removed based on a negotiation within a certain
6 time frame, 85 percent by 2023, and we built the schedule
7 based on that. In other words, we took the projects and
8 put them in a schedule where we could meet that 85 percent
9 removal by 2023.
10 Q Okay. Based on your descriptions, though,
11 that seems to be sort of outcome-based and not necessarily
12 based on the impact of charges to customers?
13 A To some extent. I mean, obviously, we have to
14 do it, and we have timed it out over a period of time. And
15 some projects we don't -- We're not doing all the projects
16 in one year. We have timed them out. A lot of the
17 projects are phased, multi-phased projects. Almost every
18 one of our sanitary sewer overflow projects has a component
19 where we remove public and private inflow and infiltration,
20 and then we come back, we monitor that, and then we proceed
21 with some sort of a relief project, whether it be sanitary
22 relief, sewer relief or storage or whatever components
23 necessary to remove that overflow by a specific date.
24 So we look at when that -- and it kind of
25 backs into it, and when we set the original master
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1 schedule, we did that to spread that work over time over at
2 least the first ten years because that's when 85 percent
3 had to be out. So it was taken into consideration. In
4 fact, the whole process that we do by doing the private I&I
5 and the public I&I upfront, doing the monitor is, in fact,
6 so we can -- after we do one portion of the project, we can
7 look to see if the remaining portion is necessary. And by
8 doing that, we have seen some savings. We've already seen
9 about $30 million in the projects that we're not going to
10 have to do as we move forward. We continue to do that. So
11 we're always keeping in mind to try not to do projects that
12 we don't have to do.
13 Q Okay. There have been a couple of projects or
14 maybe groups of projects that have been mentioned in MIEC's
15 testimony and MSD's testimony. I am going to give you -- I
16 don't know if you've got it available. This is Exhibit MSD
17 78B. This is the schedule of projects that was provided by
18 MSD. I give that to you just because I want to go through
19 some of those projects, and I think it will help to have
20 that available in front of us. The first grouping of
21 projects that I wanted to talk about is on 12565, which
22 begins on page four. So this is the Bissell and Lemay
23 fluidized bed incinerator project.
24 A Okay.
25 Q It begins kind of there in the middle of
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1 page four with some design services and fiscal year '21,
2 and then there are eight or ten line entries that include
3 construction, design, engineering during construction, et
4 cetera.
5 A Yeah, I've got that.
6 Q Okay. This project, this is -- MSD's position
7 is this is required by regulation, not by consent decree;
8 is that right?
9 A Correct. It is a regulatory requirement to
10 stay in compliance with our current air permits for our
11 incinerators on the Lemay and Bissell wastewater treatment
12 plants.
13 Q And I believe MSD's assertion has been that
14 this must be completed by 2026?
15 A That is correct. That is the time frame
16 that -- It's a very lengthy project, so it's a time frame
17 we have to -- in order to get it done, it would be a time
18 frame we negotiated with the EPA. We went to the EPA. In
19 order to do this project in the time frame to stay in
20 compliance, it was going to sit right on top of one of our
21 major combined sewer overflow projects along River Des
22 Peres. It would have had a significant impact to the CIRP.
23 Obviously, those projects, those eight or nine we talked
24 about, total about $290 million. That would have had to go
25 right on top of one of our largest CSO tunnels, which is
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1 about a $750 million project. Rather than put it right on
2 top, we asked the negotiators to slide back a portion of
3 the overall program and move this project up in its place
4 and without -- And all of that was with taking the rate
5 payers in mind.
6 Q So you said that was a negotiated date with
7 the EPA. Where is that date memorialized?
8 A It's -- I would have to look. It's part of
9 our agreement with the -- I think it's in the front end of
10 the CD amendment. I don't know exactly.
11 Q And I believe your testimony references the
12 Consent Decree Amendment No. 2.
13 MS. MYERS: Is that an exhibit?
14 Q (By Mr. Neuschafer) Yeah. It's Exhibit 37A.
15 What I'm hoping you can help me understand is where in here
16 does this obligate MSD to complete this project by 2026?
17 A If you look at page three, in the whereas,
18 where the -- in agreement for us completing the sewer
19 sludge incinerators, the District received an extra five
20 years. I'm not reading the exact language there, but --
21 Q Maybe three sentences in, which begins on
22 about the seventh line of the page.
23 MS. MYERS: Hang on just a second.
24 Q (By Mr. Neuschafer) Yeah. Sure.
25 A Okay. You referred to it, sir.
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1 Q Yeah, page three. It's the third sentence.
2 This is referenced in your testimony as well as discovery
3 responses submitted by MSD. The third sentence says, "The
4 replacement of these incinerators will occur in fiscal
5 years 2021 to 2026 time frame by its estimated cost."
6 A That is correct.
7 Q Okay. And this is in what we will call one of
8 the whereas clauses cited --
9 A Correct.
10 Q -- as opposed to the actual order. This is
11 what MSD has cited for the 2026 completion date, but as I
12 read this, it just says that's when MSD has scheduled it.
13 I don't read this as saying MSD is obligated to complete
14 the project by 2026, and this is what MSD has cited for the
15 compliance deadline. I'm trying to understand where MSD
16 has gotten this 2026 deadline.
17 A The 2026, we have to -- In other words, our
18 current incinerators do not meet the current standards.
19 Q Okay.
20 A In other words -- And it's a large project.
21 In other words, we can't do any additional work to meet
22 compliance, so we made a regulatory decision to replace
23 these incinerators within a five-year time frame in order
24 to be in compliance with our permits; otherwise, we will be
25 out of compliance. In order to do that, we -- In order to
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1 not impact the rates to our customers, we went to the EPA.
2 In other words, this is a requirement regulatorily, but we
3 agreed with the EPA that we were going to do that, and they
4 agreed to give us five additional years and move back our
5 CSO program.
6 In other words, it was part of the whole
7 negotiation with the EPA. If we didn't -- If it didn't
8 matter when we did the incinerator, we probably would have
9 never gone to the EPA to begin with.
10 Q And to be clear, I do want to make clear, I'm
11 not disputing that it needs to be done or even the decision
12 to do it or the decision to do this work. That's not a
13 dispute, nor is the estimated cost. I think it's more
14 about timing and whether MSD has got some flexibility
15 because I just haven't seen, nor have I really seen MSD
16 point us to anything other than this was the schedule MSD
17 decided to use. And if that's all it is, then it seems to
18 me like there's maybe some discretion as far as timing on
19 this project.
20 A If we want to remain in compliance with our
21 air permits, we need to construct this incinerator.
22 Q And that point I'm not disputing. It's the
23 timing that I have a question about. On what time frame
24 and where is the time frame where MSD has said this needs
25 to be done by 2026? Where is that? Is that -- Is that
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1 encapsulated in the permit? Is that encapsulated in the
2 regulation? Is that somewhere else?
3 A It's a permit. I mean, we have a permit just
4 like we do at our treatment plants. We have permits for
5 our incinerators, and the new rulings are sanitary sewer
6 sludge incinerators, we would not be in compliance if we do
7 not move to replace. We have already made some additional
8 upgrades to them to the extent we could. We can't make any
9 more so that we plan the replacement.
10 Q Again, not disputing that a replacement needs
11 to be made or performed. It's all about the time frame.
12 Where is this time frame established in the permit and the
13 regulations? Right now, all MSD has pointed us to is this
14 sentence.
15 A It's basically we would be in violation of our
16 permit if we do not -- if we do not build these
17 incinerators. We don't have administrative order, we don't
18 have a consent decree to build the incinerators, but in
19 order to be in compliance, we must build these
20 incinerators; otherwise, we will be in violation subject to
21 the permit.
22 Q Does the permit say that these new
23 incinerators have to be constructed and operational by
24 2026?
25 A It says that our air emissions have to be in
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1 compliance. I don't think it says we have to construct
2 incinerators.
3 Q It says they have to be in compliance by 2026?
4 A I don't know the terms. I don't know the
5 exact when -- I think they are renewed. It's probably in
6 that time frame. They are five-year permits. I would have
7 to get back with you. I think the permits were provided as
8 an exhibit. I would have to go look at that.
9 Q Okay. Let's look back at the table here that
10 listed the projects. Now, this goes through the top of
11 page five, fiscal year 2024. But I understand from your
12 testimony that there are actually allocations -- more money
13 is allocated for fiscal year 2025, but it's not captured in
14 this document; is that correct?
15 A That is correct. Under large projects, we
16 fund it over multiple years and make sure we have the money
17 in place.
18 Q Do you know how much is allocated for fiscal
19 year '25?
20 A I do have that somewhere. I don't think I
21 have that here. I could get that for you pretty quickly,
22 though.
23 Q I'm not going to hold you to it. Do you have
24 a ballpark number? I mean, I'm assuming it's near the end
25 of the project.
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1 A I think it was pretty equally, what did we
2 have, maybe '24.
3 Q '24 looks like 150 million for construction,
4 design, build and 15 for engineering?
5 A I think it was approximately -- I want to say
6 it was another 100 million.
7 Q When you plan a project like this, do you -- I
8 assume you build in a contingency for timing?
9 A Correct. I mean, the 2026 date, obviously we
10 are building in time for startup. These are very
11 complicated pieces of equipment, so we wanted to be fully
12 operational and gives us time for some operational. Plus,
13 when we appropriated that last bid in 2025, generally our
14 appropriations will spread over a year, year and a half
15 over that time frame.
16 Q Okay. What would be -- And I understand this
17 project is not your standard project. This is a really
18 large project. But what would be typical for the amount of
19 sort of timing contingency built in?
20 A For this one, just because it is critical, I
21 mean, a lot of our major projects, say, a tunnel, our large
22 pumping station, generally in six months to a year by the
23 time it's actually, you know -- it might be operational,
24 but by the time you complete all the restoration and stuff
25 like that.
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1 Q And that would be for a tunnel or pumping
2 station, not necessarily a project?
3 A Or plant work, typical plant work. Understand
4 this has got to work in conjunction with an existing
5 treatment plant at two locations, so you've got to keep
6 your operations -- we still have to handle our sludge over
7 that period of time. So there is a transition period from
8 the old incinerators to the new incinerators.
9 Q Yeah. Sure. While we're talking about
10 incinerators here, I'm sure you're aware of recent media
11 about MSD's incinerators and alleged health effects from
12 incinerator emissions?
13 A Yeah. We were in the news. I know that.
14 Q Yeah. Have you considered any alternatives to
15 incineration? Not necessarily as a result of those
16 stories, I'm just saying over the past years as you were
17 planning this project.
18 A Yeah. I mean, there was a large -- we looked
19 at, I guess it was probably five or six years ago, the
20 District performed a solids handling master plan for all of
21 our facilities about how to handle it the appropriate way,
22 regulations changing all the time. I mean, issues with
23 land applications now with biosolids. There are concerns
24 about trucking biosolids. There's concerns about
25 landfilling biosolids, but we currently incinerate, at
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1 least two largest plants, the amount of sludge that is
2 generated was the determining factor at these two
3 locations. So we did take things into account, other
4 things, other potentials.
5 Q Okay. I want to move on. In your surrebuttal
6 testimony, another group of projects that were discussed
7 beyond the incinerators, the second group was wastewater
8 plant repair, and this was identified as a number of
9 wastewater treatment plant repair projects at various
10 wastewater treatment plants. Again, I'm not sure which
11 projects you're referring to.
12 A Well, it's actually -- It's referred to as
13 regulatory, not CD. We have provided a listing of
14 projects. It represents about $28 million, about
15 eight percent of the CIRP. Primarily, they will be looking
16 at upgrading and replacing assets of various treatment
17 plants, the District. That's really what it represents.
18 Q Okay.
19 A To me, it's an area of profit.
20 Q I'm going to hand you here MSD 78D. That's
21 sort of the counterpart to the one that I just provided,
22 and I think this one, you can have it. At the top it says,
23 "Regulatory-related projects that are non-CD related."
24 A Correct.
25 Q That's the group projects you're talking
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1 about?
2 A Yeah. It includes the incinerators and then
3 other miscellaneous projects at the various treatment
4 plants.
5 Q Okay. And I see there on the far right-hand
6 column, there is at least one that mentions 2026. I
7 believe that's the incinerators. Are there -- Are there
8 deadlines identified for when those projects have to be
9 on-line?
10 A There are no specific dates that these have to
11 be on-line. Some are basically in order to keep the plant
12 up and running and meeting our permit requirements. Should
13 these assets fail or we fail to replace them or maintain
14 them or rehabilitate them, we will have failure of plan,
15 which would put us out of compliance with our MVPS permits.
16 The District currently has about -- We identified about 28
17 million, roughly, and during this reporting period, we
18 probably have another $75 million worth of projects we have
19 identified as beyond their useful life at our treatment
20 plants that we are conferring in order to just try to plan
21 these out over a period of time, a lot of asset condition
22 assessment, things like that, trying to actually take into
23 consideration how much of this type of work we're doing.
24 Q Okay. I would like -- I would like to go
25 through a few of the other projects on that first longer
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1 list.
2 A The longer list. Okay.
3 Q If you could review that. If you turn to
4 page five. In the middle there is -- there are two line
5 entries for Project No. 11847.
6 A Okay.
7 Q It's about -- It looks like a little over
8 $9 million for construction of some sewer line at Black
9 Creek/Hattington Court. I see that these -- Well, let's
10 start here. Commencing construction in 2023, September of
11 2023 is the current schedule?
12 A Yes.
13 Q How long does it take to construct 8,300 feet
14 of sewer?
15 A Generally, that's over a two-year period, so
16 more than likely -- Generally, most of our sanitary relief
17 projects of any length, when you're in the mile range, are
18 built over a two-year period of time.
19 Q So this is scheduled to begin in 2023 and will
20 hit fiscal budget in fiscal years 2022 and 2023?
21 A Correct. It's currently under design. It's
22 upstream of the current Deer Creek tunnel, which is under
23 construction. If you figure with the gallery -- upstream
24 from the Galleria in the Deer Creek tunnel.
25 Q If I'm reading this correctly, the placement
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1 and service column says June 2027. It's almost four years
2 after construction is commenced. And I'm reading that 2027
3 is the consent decree obligation; is that correct?
4 A That is correct.
5 Q If my math is correct, based on what you just
6 said, this will be done in the 2025 range, but there is no
7 obligation to have it done until 2027.
8 A Again, I don't know. There could be -- I
9 would have to go look. I don't know all the watersheds.
10 Generally, if you're seeing something like that, there is a
11 subsequent project that isn't called an upstream project
12 that would require this whole system to be in place by that
13 time period. But again, I don't know every one, but
14 typically, if you see something like that, there -- it's
15 not just -- this is -- Like I said, we have to have Deer
16 Creek tunnel done, and then this project gets done, and
17 then there could be another follow-up project. I don't
18 have the connection right now, but that's typically what
19 you would see.
20 Q Okay. If you go to page 10, Project
21 No. 11146. These relate to, they're called CSO volume
22 reduction green infrastructure with five million a year
23 allocated over the four-year period, each year over the
24 four-year period. Construction is a part of the ongoing
25 green infrastructure compliance work. I understand that to
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1 be a consent decree obligation?
2 A Yes, that's part of our CSO long-term control
3 plan.
4 Q And then for placement and service, which
5 would be the -- I guess the consent decree deadline, it
6 again just says part of ongoing green infrastructure
7 compliance work. What's the deadline?
8 A The District had a commitment in the
9 Mississippi River watershed, the Bissell watershed, to
10 address combining sewer overflows along the Mississippi
11 River. The consent decree permit was $100 million of green
12 infrastructure construction over the life of the consent
13 decree. We simply spread that out over a period of time of
14 $5 million a year based on the -- and primarily, that work
15 being done as part of the grants, green infrastructure
16 grants coordinated with private development. And in
17 addition, District is also building rain guards and green
18 infrastructure in that area as well. So basically, we
19 spread that period out to ensure that we're done by the
20 time of the consent agreement.
21 Q Okay. Let's go to page 13. Again, just a
22 couple more examples of issues that I think repeat in some
23 of the projects. The second entry, 11888, Fabick pump
24 station. It's a construction task. And the financial
25 year, it says fiscal year 2022. The construction does not
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1 commence until 2024. Can you help me understand why it's a
2 financial year that's a couple of years before the
3 construction commences? And it's not necessarily this
4 project. I mean, there are other projects like this. I'm
5 using this as an example.
6 A Yeah. Understand the fiscal year of 2024.
7 Again, I don't know every single project, but, you know,
8 there is a design. I don't know whether or not the project
9 includes the force main. But generally, we procure the
10 design, takes a year or so to design, and if there is
11 easement acquisition, there's a year in between, and then
12 we have construction the following year. I don't know all
13 the nuances to that, but I tend to look at our capital of
14 our projects generally at a three-year cycle. We procure
15 the engineer, takes a year to design in most cases
16 depending on the size, we have a year of easement
17 acquisition and, generally, there's a gap of a year for
18 construction. I can't explain exactly what the difference
19 is here.
20 Q Okay. Go a few down, 11745. Fee Fee trunk
21 sewer relief. This one, it says construction was commenced
22 in 2018, placed in service in 2019, but the financial year
23 to which the almost $2 million is allocated is fiscal year
24 '21.
25 A Again, I would -- If I knew exact details, I
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1 would say that's a multi-phase project and this is the
2 final phase of it or close to it. In other words, we've
3 done some downstream work on this Fee Fee trunk sewer. I
4 think there's like 10 or 11 phases of this particular
5 project, and so that's probably -- We started with an
6 earlier phase back in 2016.
7 Q Okay. If you go to page 32. A few lines down
8 are two-$5 million projects for, I guess, different phases
9 of the Mississippi flood wall, pump station rehabilitation.
10 A Correct.
11 Q And actually there are several projects before
12 that that look like prior phases of the design, but I don't
13 see anything in here on when these are obligated to be
14 completed.
15 A Again, these are not consent decree-related,
16 they are not regulatorily required, but the District has an
17 obligation. When the flood wall was built about 50 years
18 ago, the District's responsibility as far as pump stations
19 and gate structures along the Mississippi River flood wall
20 and the City of St. Louis is responsible for the wall
21 itself. We do have a commitment. We meet with the Board
22 annually to do inspections. These pump stations, I think
23 there's 28 of them, including gate structures, that are all
24 over 50 years old. We did a major assessment of all of
25 those within the last five years and identified about
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1 $35 million worth of work. We've been working since that
2 time working with the Board to try to get federal funding
3 to do that work. In the meantime, we've had some gate
4 failures. So what we're doing, we've done some condition
5 assessment and we have -- we've started systematically,
6 over a period of seven or eight years, programs, one or two
7 of those in the $5 million range to make those repairs to
8 avoid any issues or any failures with that system. Again,
9 not regulatorily required, but the potential risk of those
10 flood wall pumping stations and those gate structures is
11 pretty significant.
12 I mean, I've got some numbers that were put
13 together by the Corps. You know, obviously, Downtown St.
14 Louis could be impacted, so the financial impact of a
15 failure of that system as evidence of the current flood
16 that we're in is prudent. Again, we still continue to work
17 with our federal legislators in trying to get funding that
18 would allow us to work with the Corps and get that funded,
19 but currently we cannot sit around and wait to spend that
20 35 million.
21 MR. NEUSCHAFER: Okay. I think that's all
22 I've got. Thank you. If you don't mind, I'll take that
23 back here. Thank you.
24 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Neuschafer.
25 Ms. Stump, do you have any questions for Mr. Unverferth?
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1 MS. STUMP: I do have a couple.
2 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Please come forward.
3 EXAMINATION
4 QUESTIONS BY MS. STUMP:
5 Q Good morning.
6 A Good morning.
7 Q So as you know, my job is a little bit more at
8 the upper level of just trying to clarify some of the
9 things for the record. So I'm just going to ask you a few
10 questions based on your surrebuttal testimony and the other
11 surrebuttal testimony. Did you have the opportunity to
12 review Mr. Gorman's surrebuttal testimony?
13 A Yes, I did.
14 Q Do you have that one or I can just --
15 MR. NEUSCHAFER: Yeah, we have them.
16 Q (By Ms. Stump) On page five of Mr. Gorman's
17 surrebuttal testimony, he discusses that -- you'll see at
18 the top of the page, in effect certain projects currently
19 planned for fiscal years '23 and '24 can be deferred until
20 '25 and '26, and MSD will not be in conflict with its
21 regulatory obligations. The actual selection of which
22 projects could be deferred can be left up to MSD staff,
23 which can be managed in a way which means the consent
24 decree obligations, other regulatory obligations can manage
25 impacts on water rates. Can you tell me what you think of
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1 that statement in the testimony?
2 A I do not agree with that statement. The
3 District really doesn't -- we have planned the projects we
4 feel that would allow us to meet our regulatory and consent
5 decree requirements. I think in my prior questioning here,
6 we've identified that, and I think Mr. Gorman basically is
7 asking that we try to move $70 million from '23 and '24
8 into '25 and '26. There's only one project that could even
9 come up with that 140 million, and that's the incinerators.
10 And if we do not build those incinerators, obviously we
11 wouldn't be in compliance with our air permits.
12 Q So if the Rate Commission were to adopt
13 Mr. Gorman's proposal, do you think that -- Would it be
14 your opinion that the resulting rate change proposal would
15 impair the ability of the District to comply with
16 applicable federal or state laws?
17 A It certainly would.
18 Q Can you explain that just a little bit? Sorry
19 if you're being repetitive.
20 A Again, our -- If we do not upgrade our
21 wastewater incinerators, we will be out of compliance with
22 our current air permits based on the regulations for sewage
23 sludge.
24 Q And then one other question: Is there any --
25 As you noted, this proposal is to remove $70 million a year
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1 for those two years from -- to the two later years. Do you
2 have any feasibility concerns beyond the regulatory
3 requirements of doing that? Would that have any effect on
4 the sequencing of projects or anything else outside of
5 regulatory?
6 A It had already come up with an additional 70
7 million each of those two years. Even if I took out the
8 non-CD projects or the regulatory projects, we would have
9 to end cap the incinerators in. We would then have to
10 defer consent decree projects, which obviously would defeat
11 the purpose while we wouldn't be meeting our consent
12 decree. In fact, our consent decree -- I think I answered
13 that.
14 MS. STUMP: You did, at least what I thought
15 you answered. So I am good. I have no further questions.
16 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Ms. Stump. Ms.
17 Myers, do you have any further questions for the witness?
18 MS. MYERS: I do. I have one.
19 EXAMINATION
20 QUESTIONS BY MS. MYERS:
21 Q Rich, you've already talked a little bit about
22 Mr. Gorman's surrebuttal testimony. In that testimony, he
23 states that MSD does not take customer wastewater rates
24 into consideration when developing the CIRP; is that
25 accurate?
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1 A No, that would not be accurate. Anything we
2 do regarding the development of our CIRP, we always take
3 our rate payers into consideration. I think we've shown
4 that with our original negotiation of the consent decree,
5 getting 23 years what at the time was probably one of the
6 lengthier consent decrees out there at the time with the
7 amount of financial commitment we had, with our -- the
8 occurrence of having to upgrade our sewage sludge
9 incinerators in the middle of the consent decree. We went
10 back to those regulators and said, hey, this isn't going to
11 work. It's going to really be a problem for our rate
12 payers putting this incinerator project right on top of our
13 major CSO program.
14 We were able to have them agree to an extra
15 five years of moving back CSO controls in order to do that.
16 I think I talked a little bit about it earlier. We really
17 scrutinized the work outside of consent decree, the asset
18 major work or the treatment plants and pump stations. We
19 work hard at identifying what really has to be done in
20 order to stay in compliance. I think I mentioned, you
21 know, probably between pump stations and treatment plants,
22 we have identified another 75 million that are plants and
23 pump station that -- work that needs to be done. It's
24 reached the end of its useful life, but we feel like we can
25 maintain and operate over some period of time and generally
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1 schedule it as we have.
2 We are really taking a good hard look at that.
3 And another thing with the consent decree, with the way we
4 approached our SSO master plan, with the infiltration and
5 inflow program where we went out and tried to get storm
6 water out of our system, we originally estimated the
7 sanitary sewer overflow program of up around -- two
8 hundred -- I'm sorry, $2 billion dollars. As we've gone
9 through and maintained and operated our system, done some
10 of the I&I work, we are seeing some of the capacity issues
11 that were identified as the master plan go away. We are
12 seeing some savings initially. We are seeing about
13 $30 million of projects that we're not having to do going
14 forward.
15 As we continue to do that work, which is
16 ongoing right now, we monitor that, we go back, we remodel,
17 we look at any of our future projects, we see future
18 projects potentially. So I just want to make sure that it
19 was known that we do take that into consideration in
20 everything we do.
21 MS. MYERS: I don't have any further
22 questions.
23 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Ms. Myers. Do
24 any members of the Rate Commission have any questions for
25 this witness? Commissioner Stein.
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1 EXAMINATION
2 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER STEIN:
3 Q Mr. Unverferth, just a few questions. With
4 respect to the alleged health effects of the incinerator
5 emissions at Bissell Point, has the DNR or EPA spoken to
6 the District about that? Are they investigating that or
7 where does that stand?
8 A I don't know specific details, so I'm probably
9 not the one to describe that, but we have had conversations
10 with DNR. They're aware of where we are at with our air.
11 Actually, I take that back. Is -- I think our air permit
12 is actually with EPA. Again, I'm not totally familiar, but
13 we have had conversations with them. Obviously, when the
14 rule changed in 2012, we made some modifications. I would
15 be tough to speak to it in detail. Right now, there are no
16 violations that we have been cited for.
17 Q You did your master plan on solids handling
18 back in, you said, six years ago?
19 A I don't know the exact date, but it's probably
20 been in the five-year range, yeah.
21 Q So at that time there were no neighborhood
22 issues with respect to alleged health effects related to
23 the air emissions; would that be correct?
24 A Again, I'm not sure I'm good enough to answer
25 that. I would have to go back and read the report again.
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1 Q If you were to conduct that master plan
2 evaluation of solids handling today, would you be looking
3 at additional air emissions factors that you might not have
4 considered six or seven years ago?
5 A I mean, when we developed the plan for the
6 current incinerators, the fluidized bed incinerators, we
7 did go back and review that. There was another study done.
8 So again, everything we're doing is driven by our air
9 permit that we have for our incinerators, and in order to
10 comply with that permit, the incinerators will require an
11 upgrade before the next permit renew.
12 Q My point is that permit, as it's written
13 today, may not address health issues that are yet to be
14 discovered, and is it not possible that health issues
15 related to whatever could be coming out of the incinerators
16 could cause EPA to say incineration is no longer
17 appropriate?
18 A Regulations change all the time, so you would
19 be asking me to predict what that might look like. Right
20 now, we're not seeing it. I mean, we're seeing very
21 similar technology being utilized across the nation today.
22 Q Would it be appropriate to get EPA's opinion
23 if it's prudent to move ahead on this project without a
24 full understanding of whether there might be additional
25 permit conditions that might be coming up in the future to
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1 address the health concerns that might point you in a
2 different direction than incineration?
3 A I mean, we're just now getting started with
4 our formal plan for this, but things like that are taken
5 into consideration during the design study process, which
6 is the process we're in right now.
7 Q I would like to shift gears for just a minute
8 and talk about the trickling filter meter replacement at
9 Bissell Point. How many trickling filters are there at
10 Bissell Point?
11 A That's not something -- I'm not as familiar
12 with that. I couldn't answer that. I don't know for a
13 fact.
14 Q Are they -- Is the work going to be done all
15 at once or is it going to be sequenced, and if so, in what
16 way would it be sequenced? Would you do one at a time, two
17 at a time?
18 A That plan hasn't been formalized yet. But
19 obviously, it's an operational plant, so it wouldn't happen
20 all at once. We would have to make sure that we could keep
21 the plant operational.
22 Q So if that plan has not been formulated, how
23 is it possible to come up with a detailed schedule plan?
24 Because, obviously, the time it takes to do those
25 filters -- the filter meter replacement is going to affect
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1 the length of the project.
2 A Yeah. Again, we've identified what we feel
3 like the cost is going to be and programmed that over the
4 time frame we feel like we can do it. Again, I don't have
5 the preliminary studies sitting right in front of me.
6 Q The question is, there is -- is there some
7 flexibility in the timing of this, whether you do it at --
8 all at once or you do a third of them at a time and then
9 the next third and then the next third and do it in a more
10 phased approach?
11 A Again, we will again -- Again, we've got the
12 total dollar amount over the four-year period. In other
13 words, it could adjust and we would phase the funding, but
14 that's the dollar amount we feel like it's going to take.
15 Q My point is, instead of a four-year period, it
16 might be a five-year period or a six-year period or
17 seven-year period, depending on how you sequence the work.
18 A And again, we're dealing with a filter media
19 that's beyond five years over what its life is supposed to
20 be, so we will start making that replacement as quick as we
21 can in order to do that. Again, there's not a defined --
22 In other words, we're in, again, another project where
23 we're just now starting the design process that would
24 dictate what that phase looks like.
25 Q Have you done any engineering analysis of the
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1 media to determine whether it has a two-year life, a
2 four-year life, a six-year life?
3 A It has no life based on what I am being told.
4 In other words, we're seeing signs of failure now. That's
5 why we're moving on it. That's why we programmed it.
6 Q What will you do if there's failure?
7 A It would have to be addressed via an
8 emergency. And again, in other words, we hope that all the
9 trickling filters wouldn't fail at one time, that you could
10 manage flows until you could get them replaced, but that's
11 why we're trying to get the project off and moving.
12 Q Thank you.
13 A That's why we scheduled it the way we did.
14 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Stein.
15 Mr. Palans.
16 EXAMINATION
17 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER PALANS:
18 Q Thank you. Mr. Unverferth, I do want to
19 switch gears just a little bit. Can you tell us in view of
20 the widespread flooding that we're experiencing currently
21 in our region, including our District, the Mississippi,
22 Missouri, Meramec Rivers, what impact, if any, has this
23 flooding had upon MSD's service requirements in the
24 District?
25 A Obviously, we're in flood control mode now.
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1 We continue to be. It would be difficult for me to say
2 exactly what the financial impact, I guess, until the flood
3 is over because we're still in flood mode. But I know on
4 the operational side, it's fairly significant. We are on
5 24-hour duty along the Mississippi River and along the
6 River Des Peres. I'd probably have to defer -- Again, I
7 don't know that we would even be able to put those numbers
8 together since we're right now continuing to be in that
9 flood mode.
10 Obviously, post flood, we do analysis of any
11 of our facilities that maybe were flooded or damaged. It
12 particularly impacts -- All of our pump treatment plants
13 are seeing additional flows, so there's impacts to those.
14 They're seeing more flows. We have pump stations that get
15 flooded during higher river like this. There will have to
16 be assessments made. It might be something Marion would
17 know. We've had flooding on the Meramec. We've had some
18 floods in '15 and '17 on the Meramec. We kind of have an
19 idea of what those costs were to us. And obviously, we
20 lost a treatment plant in 2015, the Fenton treatment plant.
21 We haven't had anything major like that this time, but
22 again, we're still in flood mode, so it's difficult to say.
23 Q Have you had discussions with your financial
24 group as to what the potential impact of the current
25 flooding conditions may be?
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1 A I would probably defer to Marion. He sees the
2 operating budget, and he probably sees what impact.
3 Obviously has impact again on the operations or operational
4 costs, primarily manpower, additional costs to run pumping
5 stations, additional costs for some of our temporary things
6 we put into place to address the flood.
7 Q Okay. I will ask Mr. Gee about this, but my
8 question to you is, have you had discussions with the
9 financial group about the potential impact of the current
10 flooding conditions upon the District's finances?
11 A At a fairly high level. I don't know that
12 we've got in to see if we're going to have budget
13 shortfalls or anything like that. Not to that detail.
14 Q You made reference to the flooding conditions
15 that existed in 1993, I believe. Looking back, do you have
16 an estimate as to what the cost of remediation of that
17 flooding condition was to the District?
18 A I wouldn't have that number. I was here in
19 '93, but I mean --
20 Q Mr. Unverferth, there has -- I think you've
21 been pretty clear in your testimony that the District does
22 not have discretion to defer the CIRP projects that are
23 presently scheduled during this rate cycle; correct?
24 A That's correct.
25 Q And it's your testimony that these have to be
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1 done pursuant to the consent decree; correct?
2 A Correct.
3 Q Mr. Neuschafer asked you to recite a
4 particular provision in the consent decree that required
5 this, and you referenced one of the whereas clauses on
6 page three. In that whereas clause, it states that the
7 federal plan requirements for sewage sludge incineration
8 units constructed on or before October 2010 issued by EPA
9 in 2016 required MSD to replace its multiple hearth
10 incinerators. The replacement of these incinerators will
11 occur in fiscal years 2021 through 2026 time frame;
12 correct?
13 A That is correct.
14 Q And this was a preamble that was a basis for
15 EPA to agree to amend the consent decree; correct?
16 A That is correct.
17 Q And a consideration was the impact to rate
18 payers during this cycle; correct?
19 A Yes.
20 Q So that the basis, as I understand it, was
21 that you agree to do this in exchange for obtaining an
22 extension of the time for compliance with consent decree,
23 that is one of the elements?
24 A That is correct.
25 Q Mr. Gorman made some statements. I just want
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1 to see what you think about them. Mr. Gorman said on
2 page two that MSD does not have regulatory obligations that
3 require it to have a spike in CIRP spending in these two
4 years, these two years being -- fiscal year '23 and '24.
5 Further discovery indicates that MSD did not consider
6 impact on wastewater cost of service or retail rates in
7 prioritizing CIRP projects; is that correct?
8 A I think I answered that just a little bit ago.
9 We do not have that discretion.
10 Q Mr. Gorman also states in the next page that
11 MSD has failed to use wastewater cost of service as a
12 planning factor in establishing priority for projects. Is
13 that a true statement?
14 A No, that is not a true statement.
15 Q Mr. Gorman also says that the deficiency in
16 your planning process is not to the best benefit of
17 customers and should be implemented in order to ensure that
18 rates are managed in a reasonable and prudent manner, along
19 with modernizing your wastewater infrastructure in line
20 with regulatory objectives and good wastewater planning.
21 Is it your position that you have, in fact, modernized your
22 wastewater infrastructure in line with regulatory
23 objectives and good wastewater planning?
24 A Yes, it is.
25 Q Mr. Unverferth, I understand that this rate
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1 cycle proposes to borrow $500 million; correct?
2 A I believe that's the number. I would have to
3 defer to my financial, either Tim or Marion, to give the
4 various specifics, but, yeah, I do believe that's what the
5 plan is.
6 Q And the record has been established that MSD
7 must spend $6 billion dollars in 2019, in present dollars,
8 to comply with the consent decree over the next 20 years;
9 correct?
10 A Yeah, that's the correct number.
11 Q So in the words of an old commercial, Fram oil
12 filter, you can either pay me now or you can pay me later.
13 Is that a fair characterization of compliance with the
14 consent decree?
15 A Correct.
16 Q And in your surrebuttal testimony on
17 page four, you identified the dollars that are allocated to
18 be spent for each fiscal year '21 through '24 under the
19 consent decree and under regulatory requirements. Do you
20 see that?
21 A Correct. Yeah, on page three? Yeah.
22 Q Page four of mine.
23 A Yeah. Mine printed out a little different.
24 Oh, I don't have the final one. Yeah, it's the same table.
25 Q I took the liberty of adding up the numbers,
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1 and the total -- approximate total of dollars spent under
2 the consent decree and regulatory compliance over the next
3 four fiscal years are approximately $1.4 billion; is that
4 about correct?
5 A Yes. That would be correct.
6 Q So of the $1.5 billion total to be spent over
7 the next four fiscal years, 1.4 billion is for consent
8 decree and regulatory compliance; correct?
9 A That is correct.
10 Q If you believe my comment that you can either
11 pay me now or pay me later to comply with a consent decree,
12 if you were to -- Strike that. If the District were to
13 borrow an additional $100 million during this rate cycle,
14 would the District be able to complete more CIRP projects?
15 A If there was additional funding, I think the
16 District would look at some of the backlog infrastructure
17 work that we have that I spoke of earlier and assess the
18 criticality of expending additional dollars on that. I
19 don't know that you would see a whole lot of change with
20 the consent decree projects because they're fairly
21 scheduled out. You know, I guess you could potentially
22 slide some of the work that we slid out, slide that back
23 in. We would have -- There's other things to take into
24 consideration.
25 Q But you could make more progress on the
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1 scheduled projects that are currently scheduled during
2 the -- this current rate cycle if you had a $100 million?
3 A Yes, that would -- Yes, that would be nice.
4 COMMISSIONER PALANS: Thank you. I have no
5 further questions.
6 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Palans. Any
7 other Rate Commissioners? Yes, Mr. Beckmann.
8 EXAMINATION
9 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER BECKMANN:
10 Q Yes. I would like to ask, say MSD has
11 approved sanitary rates, and two years from now a
12 $20 million immediate need for a project pops up. What do
13 you do? Do you look at deferring something that's in the
14 cycle now or is there some supplemental appropriation?
15 That's what it would be in my world. I'm just interested
16 in how that is handled.
17 A We would take a look. I mean, based on what
18 we've seen, obviously we're trying to create savings within
19 the CIRP. We have projects that we're analyzing all the
20 time, hope that you gain some of that back through good
21 bids and things like that. So hopefully that 20 million,
22 maybe it's only 10 million, and then you can spread it out.
23 But we would probably have to defer something. You're not
24 going to spend $20 million, you know, overnight. You may
25 not even spend it within one fiscal year, so you're talking
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1 about spreading $10 million out over two years. But based
2 on what we've seen over the rate cycles, 20 million might
3 be something we would be able to absorb within that rate
4 cycle. But again, if it's unplanned, similar to the
5 incinerators, depending on what it is, if it was a true
6 emergency, in other words, to keep our plants up and
7 running, obviously we would have to deal with it. We had
8 to rebuild the Fenton wastewater treatment plant due to
9 flooding. We were able to absorb that. We would look
10 anywhere we could for savings and we would look again,
11 probably to prioritize some of our infrastructure work.
12 Q Has the District experienced emergency
13 projects of that magnitude?
14 A Probably the largest would have been the
15 Fenton wastewater treatment plant that was flooded. And
16 again, with insurance and FEMA, we were able to recoup some
17 of those costs.
18 Q What was the spend on that?
19 A I think I'll defer to Marion on that. He's --
20 I'm sure he has those numbers. He probably has them right
21 in his head.
22 COMMISSIONER BECKMANN: Nothing further.
23 Thank you.
24 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Beckmann.
25 Ms. Croyle.
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1 EXAMINATION
2 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER CROYLE:
3 Q Mine is just a little bit on the 77I, on
4 page five-1 and five-2. It was a discussion of a
5 disinfectant.
6 MS. MYERS: MSD 77I?
7 COMMISSIONER CROYLE: Yes.
8 MS. MYERS: Is that rebuttal?
9 COMMISSIONER CROYLE: These are part of --
10 A We've got it.
11 Q (By Commissioner Croyle) Okay. One comment is
12 that you are proposing chlorine in the disinfecting
13 process, and it's a caveat from my point of view. In 1979
14 when I was working in the infectious disease laboratory at
15 the University of Iowa on TV, our Biosafety Code 3 was
16 certified with UV lights. They were two years old. They
17 said they were fine, that I could reposit it because the
18 lights were failed. So you can't really necessarily -- You
19 need to check the lights. The other concern is, you
20 haven't really discussed the safety or security concerns
21 with the chlorine gas and its storage. I assume those are
22 in the budget, but I just wanted to confirm that.
23 A Yes, both of those will be evaluated during
24 the final design process, which is actually ongoing right
25 now for that expansion. Yeah, we have both. We have
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1 chlorine at some plants and we have -- In fact, Lemay has
2 UV and chlorination, so we have some accommodations. We
3 try to -- A lot of it depends on the wastewater that comes
4 to the plant. Missouri River has a UV, but then we were
5 starting to see some darker effluent due to the influent
6 coming in, which makes it not as effective. So we try to
7 address that as part of the design process.
8 Oh, Brian just said something. We use
9 chlorine in liquid form.
10 COMMISSIONER CROYLE: Thank you.
11 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Any further questions from
12 any Rate Commissioners? I have one question.
13 EXAMINATION
14 QUESTIONS BY CHAIRMAN TOENJES:
15 Q During the prior testimony, the solids study
16 was referred to, the incinerator permit was referred to,
17 the preliminary incinerator study was referred to. Are any
18 of those three documents part of the record right now?
19 A I'm sure the permits. I think we provided
20 those initially. I do not believe the solids handling and
21 then our update study probably have not, that I'm aware of,
22 but we can put those in there.
23 Q I think to inject some fact into feelings, it
24 would be great to have those as part of the record.
25 A We can do that for you. We can do that.
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1 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Any further questions for
2 this witness? Thank you, Mr. Unverferth. I appreciate
3 that. We will take a break until 10:30.
4 (Whereupon, a short break was taken.)
5 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Ms. Myers, do you have any
6 further witnesses to call?
7 MS. MYERS: Yes, our next witness is Tom
8 Beckley.
9 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Mr. Beckley, will you come
10 forward, please?
11 (Witness sworn in.)
12 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you. Does any member
13 of the Rate Commission have any questions for Mr. Beckley?
14 Hearing none, Mr. Neuschafer, do you have questions for
15 Mr. Beckley?
16 MR. NEUSCHAFER: Yes.
17 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Please come forward.
18 * * * * *
19 THOMAS A. BECKLEY,
20 being produced, sworn and examined, deposes and says:
21 EXAMINATION
22 QUESTIONS BY MR. NEUSCHAFER:
23 Q Good morning.
24 A Good morning.
25 Q Hopefully, we will be less than an hour long.
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1 It was a joke. It was a joke.
2 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: We will not hold you to
3 that. You have up to three hours.
4 Q (By Mr. Neuschafer) Thank you. You submitted
5 some surrebuttal testimony on extra strength surcharges; is
6 that correct?
7 A Yes.
8 Q You have a copy of that in front of you. You
9 testified that the -- in the fiscal years 2018, '19 and
10 '20, rates were increased less than necessary because of
11 some inaccurate assumptions; is that correct?
12 A So when we did the 2017 rate proposal, most of
13 the rates were increased by the across-the-board rate
14 increase, the 10.75 percent rather than the requirement.
15 But there was some discussion while we were preparing the
16 rate proposal that we felt that that might be inaccurate,
17 in particular, for extra strength surcharges because we
18 thought that would be driven more by operation maintenance
19 expense increase than by capital expenditures. And as it
20 turns out, that wasn't quite accurate, but neither was
21 across-the-board. Either one would have been inaccurate.
22 If we had done across-the-board increases, it
23 would be lowering the extra strength surcharges in this
24 rate proposal as opposed to now where we -- we undershot
25 the mark and now we're having to given increases, in
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1 particular with BOD having gone almost 25 percent, TSS
2 going up nine and a half percent.
3 Q So help me understand. You said -- I guess
4 I'm -- I want to understand the difference between the O&M
5 cost and capital cost. Dive down into that. Dig down a
6 little deeper. Why would that be incorrect?
7 A Well, the rate increases, in particular in the
8 last rate proposal, were driven primarily by capital
9 expenditures. That's why the 10.75 percent average annual
10 increase in the last rate proposal was driven by capital
11 expenditures more so than O&M, which increased by about
12 2.8 percent, I believe it was, per year, and then the rest
13 of the increase was primarily attributable to capital
14 expenditures. And again, there was some discussion among
15 ourselves, you know, us as the District's rate consultant
16 and District staff that there was concern that giving extra
17 strength surcharges at 10.75 percent increases across the
18 board for the non-test years, '18, '19 and '20, would have
19 overshot the mark, and it actually would have been correct.
20 Now, we would have overshot the mark less than
21 we undershot the mark at least for BOD. On TSS, we would
22 have actually overshot the mark more by using across the
23 board than we did by using the O&M.
24 Q It sounded to me a lot like the first answer
25 that you gave.
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1 A I don't know.
2 Q I'm trying to understand. So the increase
3 last time around was driven more by capital expenditure
4 than O&M?
5 A The total revenue increase that was in the
6 rate proposal of 10.75 percent was driven by capital
7 expenditures.
8 Q In the end, looking back, we've got a little
9 hindsight now, what was it that led to the extra strength
10 surcharges not being what they should have been?
11 A It was increasing them for the three non-test
12 years, '18, '19 and '20, by the O&M increase instead of
13 some other number. But really even -- For instance, Ms.
14 Lemoine has made recommendations we should use
15 across-the-board instead of O&M increases. But if we had
16 used across-the-board, we would have overshot the mark.
17 This is a challenge we face when we do multi-year rate
18 plans because there's a few different approaches you can
19 take.
20 The approach we use is probably the most
21 common, which is you do a test year that does cost of
22 service and then for however many more years you want to do
23 it, you do across-the-board increases, and that's what we
24 have traditionally done here in St. Louis. The other
25 option is, you do multiple test years. You do a test year
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1 for each of the four years, which may provide -- I would
2 say it would provide perceptually more accuracy, but the
3 reality is, you're still making assumptions for those
4 following test years that aren't going to turn out to be
5 exactly correct. So to some extent, it provides more
6 perception of precision that really doesn't exist because
7 there are so many assumptions that go in there. When you
8 look at we're doing a four-year rate plan now for rates
9 that are going to be in effect until almost five years from
10 as we sit here today, you know, there's assumptions in that
11 four to five-year range that, honestly, they won't turn out
12 to be accurate.
13 Q Let me come at this a different way. So what
14 I'm hearing is that for these years, '18, '19, and '20, the
15 cost of service associated with TSS and BOD is actually
16 higher than what MSD is recovering through the extra
17 strength surcharge?
18 A Correct. The cost of service would have been
19 higher.
20 Q Why is cost of service higher?
21 A Because we ended up spending more on capital
22 than the assumption we made in the 2017 rate proposal.
23 Q And did we not understand how much capital we
24 were going to be spending during those years?
25 A We had a projection of capital expenditures
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1 and, as has always been the case, we don't spend the money
2 exactly as we had planned, projects don't come in exactly
3 as they were budgeted and things like that. But in
4 hindsight, we ended up spending -- the discussion we had
5 was capital expenditures are being driven by improvements
6 in the collection system and conveyance system more so than
7 the treatment plants. So it was felt that BOD and TSS
8 would be less impacted, so using O&M would be more accurate
9 than using across-the-board. As it turns out, when you
10 look at the proportion of how much was spent at the
11 treatment plants relative to conveyance and collection, it
12 ended up being almost about the same.
13 Q So we had more capital expenditures than
14 anticipated over those periods?
15 A I wouldn't say that. I didn't say that. I
16 just said they were different. I said they were different.
17 I didn't say they were more. I honestly don't -- I don't
18 know that off the top of my head. I said they were
19 different.
20 Q Okay. You said they were different. But
21 capital expenses -- you said -- Cost of service increased
22 higher than what the rate increase was for TSS and BOD over
23 those years?
24 A TSS and BOD, correct.
25 Q Cost of service increased because of higher
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1 capital expenditures than anticipated?
2 A Than we forecasted when we did the rates, yes.
3 Q Than you anticipated?
4 A Yes.
5 Q Okay. Those higher capital expenditures, were
6 those general MSD capital expenditures or were those
7 associated with treatment of TSS and BOD?
8 A My understanding is that they were associated
9 with treatment -- when you look at the asset -- the booked
10 assets for MSD, when you book -- we ended up booking more
11 in the treatment plants -- I wouldn't even say more. We
12 thought that -- Basically, the discussions we had with
13 ourselves and staff were that the capital improvements
14 would go more proportionately into the conveyance and
15 collection system than the treatment plants, but when we
16 looked at what actually occurred from 2017 to 2021 is the
17 proportion of treatment plant assets ended up being
18 approximately the same as conveyance and collection.
19 Q Is conveyance --
20 A Part of that was actually due to depreciation
21 and not just necessarily new assets. Because when you look
22 at how we do cost of service, it's based on the net book
23 value of the MSD's assets, and so -- But when you look at
24 the change in value of the system, treatment ended up going
25 up approximately as much as conveyance and collection on a
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1 proportionate basis, not on an absolute dollar basis.
2 Q Are conveyance and collection systems, that
3 benefits the system as a whole, that's not just a function?
4 A Yeah.
5 Q Leading to treat extra -- excess strength?
6 A Correct. Those are allocated primarily
7 involving.
8 Q Is there an industry standard or a commonly
9 accepted understanding of what level of rate increase
10 results in rate shock?
11 A I wouldn't say there's an industry standard or
12 commonly accepted. Kind of, if you want just to put it in
13 simple numbers, often it's expressed as double digit
14 increases, which we subjected our retail customers to over
15 the past four years.
16 MR. NEUSCHAFER: Thank you.
17 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Neuschafer.
18 Ms. Stump, do you have any questions for Mr. Beckley?
19 MS. STUMP: One.
20 EXAMINATION
21 QUESTIONS BY MS. MYERS:
22 Q I think Mr. Neuschafer did an excellent job of
23 asking the questions that I was going to ask and getting
24 the answers out of you. But one final question relating to
25 that discussion about the surcharges. As you know, the
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1 Rate Commission has defined that the proposed rate change
2 results in rates that are fair and reasonable across all
3 classes of rate payers. Can you explain to me, looking at
4 this issue, the surcharge issue, what your opinion is on
5 that and why, on the fair and reasonableness across all
6 classes?
7 A The challenge when we do this, when you're
8 using a multi-year rate plan -- And again, this isn't
9 unique to MSD, it's anytime you're doing multi rate plans,
10 you have to make assumptions for those out years. Like I
11 said, when we had this discussion preparing the 2017 rate
12 proposal, there was specific discussion about that issue
13 that there was concern that we were going to raise the
14 surcharges too much if we applied across-the-board
15 increases to them, and that would have turned out to be
16 accurate. We would have -- We would be talking about
17 lowering the surcharges now by 13 percent for TSS, almost
18 four percent for BOD if we had done across-the-board
19 instead of going with the increases based on O&M.
20 And so in fair and reasonable, we make our
21 best estimate on a lot of assumptions and there is a --
22 there is a lot of assumptions in the rate proposal. We do
23 our best to determine what will provide fair and reasonable
24 rates for all classes, for residential, commercial,
25 industrial, all rate classes. And on this one, obviously
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1 we had a lot of discussions. We were preparing the 2021
2 rate proposal about this specific issue because there was
3 concern by MSD staff, as well as ourselves, that we wanted
4 to make sure that we understood why this was occurring, and
5 that's why even our direct testimony that we filed with the
6 rate proposal this specific issue was addressed. We
7 understand that this -- Like I said in my surrebuttal
8 testimony, we missed the mark more than we would like, but
9 sometimes that happens. And so we end up undercharging the
10 industrial customers for surcharges, and at the end of the
11 day, that means the other customers paid a little bit too
12 much.
13 Now, you have to recognize that we're talking
14 about less than two percent of the total revenue
15 requirement for the District. So, yes, they paid a little
16 bit too much, but in the grand scheme of things, it's not
17 that they were way overpaying to subsidize these industrial
18 customers, but -- We would have preferred it had been
19 closer, but it just turned out this way that we were wrong.
20 Like I said, actually on TSS, when you look at TSS, we were
21 closer on TSS by using O&M than we would have been using
22 across-the-board. If we used across-the-board, we would be
23 lowering the rates by 13 percent instead of increasing the
24 rates by 10 percent.
25 Q So for this rate change proposal, really what
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1 you're doing is a result of what happened in the last rate
2 change proposal?
3 A Right. It happens in every rate change
4 proposal. Some of the assumptions we made just weren't
5 accurate, and so that's why when you look at the percentage
6 increase, that 2.75 increase in the first year, not
7 everybody's rates are changing by 2.75 percent. These
8 surcharge rates are going up more. Residential rates are
9 going up a little less, in part because of that, because
10 they've been overpaying by a little bit to support those
11 rates over the past three years since we did -- as we made
12 those adjustments.
13 Q But if you look at this rate change proposal
14 in the years we have in this proposal, you still feel that
15 it's fair and reasonable?
16 A I believe it's fair and reasonable. And
17 again, even though we've gone -- again, for years -- for
18 the three years following the cost of service, the test
19 year and 2021, we have gone with the O&M increase.
20 However, it's important to point out this time around, the
21 difference between across-the-board and the O&M increase is
22 less than three percent, whereas last time it was almost
23 30 percent. So there is a significant difference in the
24 magnitude of difference between the two options that we're
25 talking about.
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1 Q So that's another reason why. Because my
2 other question was going to be: Are we going to be talking
3 about this in the next rate change proposal?
4 A If it is, it's due to a completely different
5 reason because the difference between the two options now,
6 like I said, it's less than three percent, whereas last
7 time the difference between across-the-board and O&M was
8 almost 30 percent. So it was a much wider range last time
9 just because the across-the-board increases were much
10 larger last time than they are this time.
11 MS. MYERS: Okay. Thank you. No more
12 questions.
13 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Ms. Stump. Ms.
14 Myers, do you have any further questions for Mr. Beckley?
15 MS. MYERS: I do not.
16 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Do any of the Rate
17 Commissioners have any questions for Mr. Beckley? I have
18 one.
19 EXAMINATION
20 QUESTIONS BY CHAIRMAN TOENJES:
21 Q Could you drill down on the specifics that
22 roll that inaccuracy of your estimate?
23 A It primarily comes down to the discussion we
24 had over primarily the 2017 rate proposal, was that it was
25 felt that when we booked the assets and booked depreciation
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1 and everything else over those three years after the test
2 year, that the relative value of the conveyance and
3 collection system would be increasing at a faster rate than
4 treatment on MSD's books. But what actually ended up
5 occurring is when all of those factors were taken into
6 account, that the proportion of MSD's assets in the 2021
7 proposal that's dedicated to treatment, it increased it
8 approximately the same rate as the conveyance and
9 collection. And so even though when you look at the
10 absolute dollars, it's -- And I'm going off the top of my
11 head. It's like a $50 million increase in treatment versus
12 $150 million increase in conveyance and collection. But in
13 terms of proportion, they both increase. And again, I
14 don't have a number. That should be in the ballpark. But
15 they increased by, say, 10 percent. They both increase by,
16 say, 10 percent, but we thought that conveyance and
17 collection was going to increase more than treatment, and
18 that just didn't turn out to be the case once everything
19 was accounted for.
20 Q So it was a depreciation?
21 A Depreciation was part of the answer because
22 our conveyance and collections, honestly, there's just so
23 much conveyance and collection depreciation, these are --
24 The conveyance and collection system have a book value of
25 approximately a billion dollars, and so when you actually
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1 account for depreciation, we're depreciating. Over tens of
2 millions of dollars each year gets depreciated.
3 Q And that was the bulk of the error?
4 A It wouldn't say it was an error, it was just
5 an inaccurate assumption. Like I said, whenever we do
6 this, we have to make an assumption on how it's going to
7 change. And for instance, like I said, Ms. Lemoine
8 suggested that we should be using across-the-board
9 increase, which I don't disagree with is a bad approach.
10 That's a reasonable approach, too. If we had done that, we
11 still would have missed the mark.
12 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Any further questions for
13 Mr. Beckley? Yes, Mr. Goss.
14 EXAMINATION
15 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER GOSS:
16 Q So if I understand this testimony, I'm not
17 sure I do, you would have missed the mark by a lot less if
18 you had used the across-the-board?
19 A We would have actually missed it by more for
20 suspended solids. We would have missed it by less for BOD.
21 Q But overall, it would have been less, if you
22 combined the two?
23 A I'm actually not sure off the top of my head
24 the proportion of TSS to BOD, but I believe that's correct.
25 Q But your testimony now is that either way,
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1 either method you choose is more or less the same?
2 A I didn't say it's more or less the same. Both
3 are reasonable approaches.
4 Q Well, I thought I heard a three percent
5 difference. What is that?
6 A That's the difference between the two
7 approaches for this rate -- for the 2021 rate proposal.
8 Q Well, in my cookbook that's more or less the
9 same. It's pretty doggone close; right?
10 A It is.
11 Q Okay. So Ms. Lemoine believes using
12 across-the-board would be preferable than these two, more
13 or less, the same approaches, because you're guessing less,
14 I think is what she said. Would you agree with that?
15 A I wouldn't call it guessing.
16 Q Well, you're making assumptions.
17 A You're making assumptions.
18 COMMISSIONER GOSS: I call those guesses.
19 They may be good guesses, they may be bad guesses. We hope
20 they're good ones. That's all I got.
21 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Any further questions from
22 any of the Rate Commissioners? Thank you, Mr. Beckley.
23 Ms. Myers, do you have an additional witness or two?
24 MS. MYERS: We do. It is Bill Stannard.
25 (Witness sworn in.)
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1 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you. Do any members
2 of the Rate Commission have any questions for Mr. Stannard?
3 Mr. Neuschafer, do you have any questions for Mr. Stannard?
4 MR. NEUSCHAFER: I do.
5 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Please come forward.
6 * * * * *
7 WILLIAM STANNARD,
8 being produced, sworn and examined, deposes and says:
9 EXAMINATION
10 QUESTIONS BY MR. NEUSCHAFER:
11 Q Good morning.
12 A Good morning.
13 Q First, I just want to check and make sure you
14 have a copy of your surrebuttal testimony.
15 A I do.
16 Q Okay. We're going to talk about I&I for a bit
17 here, and you referenced a table that has been provided by
18 Mr. Gorman about I&I allocations used in other utilities.
19 You recall that table?
20 A Yes, I do.
21 Q Okay. And you focused in on two of the other
22 utilities that are referenced in that table, Kansas City,
23 Missouri, and St. Joseph, Missouri; is that correct?
24 A Yes.
25 Q And you indicate that you think that Kansas
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1 City is a good model for St. Louis because of its size,
2 topography and climate?
3 A And also its similarity in the nature of the
4 system being both a proportionate system that's combined
5 sewer system and a portion that's separated sewer. So
6 we're dealing with similar consent decree requirements, but
7 CSO and also SSO.
8 Q Okay. Do you know, how does the Kansas City
9 system compare to the St. Louis system in terms of age?
10 A Don't know.
11 Q How about miles of sewer collection,
12 conveyance and infrastructure?
13 A Off the top of my head, I don't know.
14 Q But I think you indicated that they are under
15 a consent decree roughly similar to St. Louis?
16 A Yes, they are.
17 Q Do you have any direct experience with the
18 Kansas City system?
19 A Historical experience.
20 Q What do you mean by historical experience?
21 A Back in my prior life at Black & Veatch, I did
22 water and wastewater rate work for Kansas City, Missouri,
23 and then with my current employer, Raftelis, we did a
24 wastewater cost survey study probably about 12 years ago.
25 Q Okay. You also indicate that you didn't think
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1 St. Joseph, Missouri, was very comparable. I would like to
2 understand the basis for that.
3 A Principally size.
4 Q And by size, you mean size of
5 collection/conveyance system, geography of the city? I
6 don't think St. Joseph's has a metropolitan area.
7 A Correct. The geographic area, number of
8 customers, and principally the nature of their systems.
9 Q Okay. What about any of the other eight
10 systems that were identified by Mr. Gorman, did you conduct
11 any analysis as to comparability of those to MSD?
12 A I didn't really look at those, but I do know
13 that there is a wide range of how those systems allocated
14 recovery costs or assigned costs associated with I&I
15 between customers and volume, ranging from Columbus, Ohio,
16 which I believe zero percent is allocated to customers;
17 Philadelphia, it's about 15 percent allocated to customers
18 on up to something as high as 75 percent allocated to
19 customers.
20 Q Let's talk about how MSD reached its current
21 I&I allocation. And there is reference and included in the
22 record as a CDM study from approximately 2005; that's
23 correct?
24 A That's correct.
25 Q And then you also reference Exhibit MSD 65C,
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1 which is a page from the 2007 rate proposal. It has a box
2 that explains how we reach the current allocations; is that
3 correct?
4 A Yes.
5 Q We'll let them get that because I have some
6 questions about that. Okay. You've got Exhibit MSD 65C in
7 front of you?
8 A Yes.
9 Q Take whatever time you need to look at this
10 page and, in particular, the box in the middle of the page.
11 This is what you have referenced as how MSD arrived at the
12 allocation factors based on the CDM study. I'll give you a
13 minute.
14 A Yes, I recall this, and at the time, I was the
15 rate consultant for the Rate Commission for that 2007 rate
16 case.
17 Q I'm going to admit that I've read this, I
18 don't know how many times, and I'm having trouble
19 understanding it. Can you help explain to me what this is
20 saying, how MSD, I guess, arrived at a
21 40 percent/60 percent split for I&I?
22 A It's a very complicated approach that they
23 use, but this was done in part with the engineering
24 consultant, CDM, that had been engaged by the city for that
25 prior study, and then the lack of issue as the rate
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1 consultant for the commission -- or to the MSD and working
2 through to determine what the appropriate distribution of
3 costs associated with -- or assignment of costs associated
4 with infiltration/inflow. So this was their explanation of
5 how they got to the 40/60 split.
6 Q Okay. So let's walk through this just a bit.
7 It looks like they started with or the split at the time
8 was 60 percent customer-related -- I'm not sure. I'm
9 reading that incorrectly. What I want to know is, how do
10 we get from all of the data in the CDM report, which
11 doesn't actually recommend a certain split, it just
12 provides a bunch of data, to the current 40 percent
13 distributed based on the number of customers within the
14 class and 60 percent based on volume? For example, say
15 that the bill versus treated volume is currently 50/50.
16 I'm understanding that prior to this, this rate cycle
17 referenced in here was a 50/50 split, not a 40/60 split; is
18 that correct?
19 A No, I think this was -- The bill volume as a
20 percentage of the total treated volume at the time was
21 50 percent from sanitary sewage, 50 percent from extraneous
22 sources including, principally, the infiltration and
23 inflow.
24 Q So then it says, in order to adjust the
25 33 percent wet weather volume and the 60 percent customer
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1 capacity allocation. Where does 33 percent wet weather
2 volume I&I come from?
3 A That was, I believe as I recall from the
4 testimony at the time, that goes back to the work that CDM
5 was doing relative to the portion of flow that was
6 occurring during wet weather periods. Again, when you look
7 at a system, there are multiple sources of infiltration and
8 inflow, including what's commonly called a dry weather
9 infiltration which occurs at a constant rate just by the
10 nature of the system. We have river-induced infiltration
11 for those segments of the collection system that are near
12 rivers that the river flow and the level of groundwater
13 will be -- as that increases, then that will increase the
14 river-induced infiltration, and then there's during wet
15 weather periods where there's storm flow and other causes
16 of flow that gets into the system through surface water
17 runoff.
18 So those were all the components that CDM
19 looked at, and that was -- I didn't go back, and I don't
20 recall the details in their study. I would have to go back
21 and examine that to see if there's any substantive backup
22 information with regard to the determination that
23 33 percent of the flow of wet weather flow was -- how they
24 made that determination of the total volume that they did.
25 Q I'm going to approach this a different way.
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1 So if we look at the first paragraph, it appears that prior
2 to 2017, the I&I split was 60 percent customer-related and
3 40 percent volume.
4 A Yes.
5 Q Is that correct?
6 A Yeah, that's the allocation that had been used
7 in prior rate proposals by MSD.
8 Q And in this rate proposal in 2007, they
9 switched goals. They switched from 60 percent customer to
10 40 percent customer, 40 percent volume to 60 percent
11 volume, so we ended up with a 40 percent
12 customer-related/60 percent volume-related?
13 A Correct.
14 Q The rest of this box purports to explain
15 how -- the justification for switching those. Can you help
16 explain that?
17 A I'll do my best. But again, this was a
18 detailed analysis that was done by Black & Veatch and CDM,
19 and it was adopted in that rate change proposal. We did
20 not question that. I don't believe there was any testimony
21 that disputed it or -- I'd have to go back and look at the
22 actual transcripts of that, but it was also stated the same
23 in every rate change proposal since then without in-depth
24 discussion.
25 Q Okay. So was the -- As part of the current
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1 rate proceeding, did MSD itself or did MSD cause you all to
2 do any reanalysis of whether this is the appropriate I&I
3 allocation?
4 A No.
5 Q And why is that? Do you believe that there
6 could be factors that could have changed the I&I allocation
7 in the past 12 years?
8 A That's going to be -- Most significantly with
9 regard to the distribution of investment that's done on
10 the -- I would say the trunk sewers and interceptor sewers
11 that -- and the sources of I/I that occurred in those
12 systems versus the customer-induced I/I, which -- where
13 there is a -- Mr. Unverferth said earlier, a substantial
14 amount of effort in the separated areas to remove that
15 infiltration/inflow from customer properties. So there's
16 that investment going on that would reduce the amount of
17 the infiltration/inflow that would be customer-related, but
18 then the impact of what the amount of infiltration and
19 inflow in the more common areas, which are those trunk
20 sewers and interceptors, the river-induced types of
21 infiltration/inflow, and other elements of the systems that
22 require -- that result in increased levels of wet weather
23 entering the system during rain events.
24 So we did not talk about the hydraulic
25 modeling that the District has done and asked to model and
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1 understand their collection system, but that is something
2 that I think I need to identify in my direct testimony was
3 that it was recommended that they take a look at
4 reexamining this issue for the next rate case, the next
5 rate proposal in four years, so that we can have a better
6 understanding of what the impact has been on the nature of
7 the flows entering the system as a result of the capital
8 investment that we're making to comply with and reduce the
9 amount of lines for overflow as well as reducing the
10 separated sewer overflows as well. All of those things
11 will come into play. But it's -- As Ms. Kumar said in her
12 testimony, that's an expensive study to do. Great Lakes
13 Water Authority is spending millions of dollars in their
14 modeling and metering of their system to get a better
15 understanding of the sources of flows entering their
16 system.
17 Q As we all know, MSD is in the middle of a
18 pretty significant capital expenditure program relating to
19 the system as a whole; right?
20 A Right.
21 Q So the system probably looks a lot different
22 now than it did 15 years, doesn't it? 15 years ago?
23 A They've made investments, yeah, both in --
24 both in terms of the separated sewer, trying to eliminate
25 separated sewer overflows which are much more significant
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1 from a scheduling standpoint than the CSO compliance. But
2 all of those things pull in together, and we will have --
3 In some ways, if we reduce the amount of overflows, the
4 amount of extraneous flow in reaching the treatment plant
5 will increase.
6 Q You mentioned Ms. Kumar's testimony a few
7 times. If you look at your testimony at the bottom of
8 page two and the top of page three, you take issue with her
9 referring to something called WEF MOP 27 as a guideline; is
10 that correct?
11 A That is correct.
12 Q So putting aside how we refer to that
13 document, do you have any disagreement with the substance
14 of her testimony with respect to the, I guess, example that
15 WEF MOP 27 provides?
16 A That's just an example. I will say that the
17 issue of infiltration/inflow and how it should be recovered
18 from customers has been even part of the Environmental
19 Protection Agency regulations, user charge regulations,
20 which are part 35 of the Code of Federal Regulations
21 dealing with user charges. But over the years as it
22 changed, what the final version was that utilities -- This
23 question was being asked of the EPA, how should we do this?
24 And the EPA determined that they can be recovered a hundred
25 percent on customers or a hundred percent on volume or
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1 anything in between, so they gave a lot of leeway to
2 wastewater utilities to determine how they should recover
3 those costs. Most systems have not done even the studies
4 that MSD has done back approaching 15 years ago. Most
5 systems -- And I suspect that I would not be surprised if
6 any of the other systems that were included or most of
7 those systems that were included in Mr. Gorman's Table 5,
8 his testimony, had done even the study that MSD had done.
9 Q You don't know that because you told me
10 earlier that you didn't do an analysis of those other
11 systems; right?
12 A I did work for them over the years. My prior
13 role was at Black & Veatch in terms of Columbus, Ohio,
14 Cincinnati MSD, Philadelphia. So I know what others have
15 done, and I know having done this for 47 years now and
16 working with wastewater utilities around the United States,
17 I know how this issue is being addressed and how they're
18 dealing with it. So only now as we get better metering and
19 modeling capabilities, the utilities started to do even
20 more in examining the sources of wet weather flow and dry
21 weather infiltration and inflow metering systems.
22 MR. NEUSCHAFER: Thank you. That's all I've
23 got.
24 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Neuschafer.
25 Ms. Stump, do you have questions for Mr. Stannard?
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1 MS. STUMP: One again.
2 EXAMINATION
3 QUESTIONS BY MS. STUMP:
4 Q Good morning, still. Just picking up on your
5 conversation with Mr. Neuschafer. So I think we all know
6 that the last study was done in 2005. The District has
7 changed a lot since then. I think you admitted to that.
8 And you also said that you are recommending that the
9 District do another study before the next rate change
10 proposal that it would do; correct?
11 A Yes.
12 Q Why -- And I'm back now, still looking at this
13 rate proposal and whether this rate proposal is fair and
14 reasonable with respect now specifically to the I&I. If
15 you're going to recommend that for the next rate proposal,
16 why would you say that this one is fair and reasonable?
17 A I would say that in given the -- Looking at
18 the changes in the system and how those have focused both
19 in terms of removal of property-related infiltration and
20 inflow and from individual customers into the separated
21 systems and then the investment that's been done in the
22 trunk sewers and interceptors, that that balance of impacts
23 may not be -- it's difficult to say how much it changed
24 since 2005. In total, it's changed. It's really
25 proportional to the sources of infiltration and inflow.
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1 So as far as where we are today, I think this
2 is a reasonable representation of the responsibility based
3 on some -- not any arbitrary determination of should it be
4 zero percent customer and 100 percent volume, or 75 percent
5 volume and 25 percent customer or vice versa, that this is
6 at least based on some technical analysis that has been
7 done, but that next time we can take a new look at that,
8 MSD can take a new look at that analysis in that study and
9 update it based on how the system is being operated at that
10 point.
11 Q And when you say technical analysis, you're
12 saying from 2005; correct?
13 A Yes. And what we didn't talk to MSD about
14 this time is whether in terms of modeling of the system,
15 the hydraulic modeling of the system, how those -- modeling
16 reviews to help support some of these analyses.
17 Q And if you were a rate payer in this system,
18 would you feel like the way that the I&I is treated in this
19 rate change proposal is fair and reasonable based on the
20 2005 study?
21 A Yes.
22 MS. MYERS: I have no further questions.
23 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Ms. Stump. Ms.
24 Myers, do you have questions for Mr. Stannard?
25 MS. MYERS: I do have a couple.
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1 EXAMINATION
2 QUESTIONS BY MS. MYERS:
3 Q Bill, are you familiar with Mr. Gorman's
4 recommendation in his surrebuttal testimony that the I&I
5 allocation should be 50 percent to customers and 50 percent
6 to volume?
7 A Yes. I read his surrebuttal testimony and
8 noted that he had made that recommendation that the -- in
9 his opinion that we should shift to a 50/50 split with no
10 basis for that.
11 Q So your testimony is that he did not have any
12 technical support to support that recommendation?
13 A I did not see any technical basis referred to
14 in his testimony. It appeared to me that he was looking at
15 the ranges in his table five in his earlier testimony and
16 saw that the 50/50 would be kind of in the ballpark, in the
17 middle of what others are doing.
18 Q Okay. And would this proposed 50/50 split per
19 I&I have an impact on customers' bills?
20 A If we took our proposal and changed it solely
21 for a 50/50 split, it would shift the impact of the
22 increase on bills of all customers. And -- Yeah. So
23 actually for, say, a small customer, say, a small
24 residential customer using one CCF per month, an individual
25 on their own would be using 30 gallons of water per day.
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1 If we shifted from the current 40/60 to a 50/50 split, they
2 would see a rate increase of about -- almost 17 percent for
3 their bill as opposed to a one percent increase under the
4 proposed change in the rate proposal. A typical customer
5 for MSD uses six CCFs, which a CCF is 100 cubic feet, which
6 is always an interesting term. Most people understand
7 gallons, but one cubic foot of water has about 7.48 gallons
8 of water in that cubic foot. So under the 50/50 split, if
9 we did that, their rates -- their bill would go up
10 6.7 percent as opposed to a 1.8 percent under the rate
11 change proposal, and that's just for the first year in the
12 rate change for 2020. On the flip side, the larger
13 customers, so not -- It's a large amount of residential
14 customers that uses 100 CCFs per month.
15 Under the 50/50 split, they would get nearly a
16 five percent decrease in their bill as opposed to the
17 three percent increase that is being proposed by the
18 District, so it would have some significant impacts
19 shifting us from large-volume users to small-volume users.
20 MS. MYERS: I have no further questions.
21 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Ms. Myers. Do
22 any members of the Rate Commission have questions for
23 Mr. Stannard? Mr. Stein.
24 EXAMINATION
25 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER STEIN:
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1 Q Mr. Stannard, it's been stated this morning
2 the EPA says that you can have an allocation anywhere from
3 a hundred percent customer to a hundred percent volume; is
4 that correct?
5 A That's what the user charge regulations state.
6 Q Okay. And if we had not looked at this in 14
7 years, why wouldn't it be reasonable to split the
8 difference and make it 50/50?
9 A I'm not sure that 50/50 has -- would be any
10 more valid than a 40/60. A 40/60, at least, is based on
11 analysis, technical analysis that was done, even though it
12 was 15 years ago. Again, looking at the investment that's
13 been made in the system and how that proportionate
14 investment relative to reducing and eliminating
15 infiltration/inflow from properties versus that what's part
16 of the collection system, that split of investment is
17 probably -- We can get back and take a look at that, but I
18 think it's probably -- that proportion would have not
19 changed significantly since that study was done before.
20 Q It's also been stated in prior testimony,
21 maybe not in this rate case, but in past rate cases, that
22 MSD has the fourth largest collection system in terms of
23 miles. And if I do my math right, if we look at the ratio
24 of customers to miles of sewer, that's going to be a fairly
25 low ratio compared to most other municipal systems; would
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1 that be correct?
2 A I would not -- I wouldn't argue that.
3 Q You wouldn't argue that?
4 A I think that's probably a reasonable
5 presumption to make.
6 Q And I believe it has been agreed in past
7 testimony that infiltration/inflow correlates to miles of
8 sewer, and particularly miles of small diameter sewer, just
9 because of the sheer number of pipe joints and other
10 structures that have a tendency to leak; is that correct?
11 A There's two components to that. One is the
12 miles of private sewer laterals that are on private
13 property, which are the source of the customer-induced
14 infiltration/inflow coming from their properties, as
15 opposed to the collection system in total, which is -- has
16 the smallest collection sewers, maybe eight inches in
17 diameter on up to multiple feet in diameter. But there's
18 the connections, there's the joints, but then there's
19 manholes, manhole covers, those things that can -- over
20 time can deteriorate or age and be sources of infiltration
21 as well as the -- where the pipes are adjacent to streams
22 or rivers or where the groundwater table rises and there's
23 a break in a pipe where the water will just enter the
24 system until that's investigated or -- It's very difficult
25 to find it. So until they are televised and examined as
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1 part of the ongoing CMOM, what's called the capacity
2 management and operation maintenance protocols for the
3 collection system, until that's done, they can't be found.
4 So the size of the sewer lines and the length
5 of sewers has a direct impact, but those, generally, would
6 be things that would be done on a volume of use as the
7 objective of the system is to recover the costs from
8 customers in proportion to how they are using the system.
9 Q It just seems to me, thinking out loud here,
10 that if I have a large system with a lot of sewers in terms
11 of mileage with lots of joints and lots of manholes and all
12 the other things that, as you said, create opportunities
13 for inflow as well as all of those private connections with
14 tree roots and everything that create opportunities, that
15 that would tip the scale toward more infiltration/inflow
16 being associated with customers as opposed to volume; am I
17 wrong there, and if so, why?
18 A Well, that could be -- That's an assumption
19 you could make, but there's other assumptions that could be
20 made because the nature of the system could be that the
21 larger sewers that are close to the streams could be
22 sources of even higher levels of infiltration/inflow. So
23 without an analytical and detailed analysis, the changes
24 would just be based on very broad assumptions what feels
25 right.
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1 COMMISSIONER STEIN: That's all that I have.
2 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Mr. Goss.
3 EXAMINATION
4 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER GOSS:
5 Q Mr. Stannard, did you go back and read the
6 2005 study in preparing for this rate testimony?
7 A I reviewed it back at the time the original --
8 we prepared the original testimony, yes.
9 Q So roughly six months ago or something?
10 A Yes.
11 Q So I pulled up the 2005 study and was looking
12 at it while you were giving testimony, and the background
13 investigation data collection section says that the basis
14 of this study, the information used, included the daily
15 flow data for each MSD wastewater treatment plant. Did you
16 go back and compare the current daily flow data for MSD
17 wastewater treatment plants today to what was used in the
18 rate study -- or this study in 2005?
19 A I did not look at the daily flow, but did look
20 at the annual flows and monthly flows.
21 Q Well, that wasn't my question.
22 A That's what we did look at. We didn't look at
23 the daily number.
24 Q This study looks at the daily flow. That's
25 what they used. So did you look -- Next, they looked at
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1 the rainfall data from the MSD rain gauges. Do you know
2 if -- Did you go and look at the current data for rainfall
3 MSD rain gauges and compare to the data they used in the
4 2005 study?
5 A We didn't compare it with the 2005 study, but
6 we did examine the rainfall over the last three years.
7 Q Right. That's not my question.
8 A But we looked at the --
9 Q I'm trying to get to the meat of it. Did you
10 look at this study and the data from this study, what was
11 the basis for this study, and the current data and compare
12 the two? That's what I'm trying to get at. I'm going to
13 go through each one of these and ask the same question. So
14 I'm not really interested in the fact you just looked at
15 two years, three years of the current stuff. I want to see
16 the comparison to the old.
17 A Well, what they were doing was to determine
18 the 50/50 split between the total flow at the plant and
19 bill flow. So we did the same thing using monthly data for
20 the last three years to see how the impact of rainfall has
21 impacted the total flows at the plant. The last rate
22 change proposal was based on -- That split was based on the
23 most recent year.
24 With this rate change proposal, we examined
25 the model. We used a three-year average of the amount of
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1 flow being received at the plant. So again, looking at
2 similar data for determining the total percentage of flow
3 that can be determined to be from non-sanitary sources.
4 Q Okay. And you believe that's an accurate way
5 to evaluate this; right?
6 A Yes.
7 Q So why are you recommending that they go back
8 and redo the 2005 study?
9 A We've already --
10 Q You made that recommendation twice.
11 A Right. But that's for the determination of
12 the portion of the flow, for infiltration/inflow coming
13 from customers versus coming from the collection system as
14 a total.
15 Q Okay.
16 A Not the total percentage of the total flow at
17 the plant that's infiltration/inflow. So we shifted from
18 the 50/50 that was 50 percent sanitary flows and industrial
19 flows and 50 percent extraneous flow, looking at the
20 average over the last three years, which was a higher
21 percentage.
22 Q I understand what you did and what you didn't
23 do. And what you didn't do, I think what you said is --
24 the MSD needs to go back and redo -- If I've heard your
25 testimony correctly, they need to go back and evaluate it;
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1 is that accurate?
2 A That's what I said.
3 Q Okay. Now, you didn't go and look at the data
4 that was used in the 2005 report for flow monitoring data
5 within the collection systems; is that right?
6 A I'm sorry. Could you repeat that, please?
7 Q Did you go back and look at the data for the
8 flow monitoring that was used in the 2005 report? Did you
9 evaluate that?
10 A No, I did not.
11 Q Did you evaluate the impervious area data for
12 all service areas that was used in the 2005 report?
13 A No, I did not.
14 Q Did you evaluate the collection system data,
15 such as pipe length and diameter for the entire collection
16 system, that was used in the 2005 report?
17 A No, we were not asked to redo that study.
18 Q I understand. I just want --
19 A I am not --
20 Q I'm just asking if you went --
21 A So with --
22 Q I don't want to talk over you. All I want to
23 do is know if you evaluated this data. If you did, fine.
24 If you didn't, that's what I'm asking you. I'm not asking
25 what they asked you to do, I'm asking what you did.
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1 A We used that study.
2 Q You used the 2005 study?
3 A We used the results of that study, which was
4 put into the 2007 rate case, rate proposal, that shifted
5 the recovery and responsibility from -- to 40/60. So we
6 used that and did not change that determination of the
7 relative responsibility for infiltration/inflow.
8 Q But you did not go back and compare the data
9 that formed the basis for the 2005 study conclusions and
10 compare it to the current data? That you did not do?
11 A Did not do that.
12 Q And that means you didn't go back and look at
13 the bill volume or number of billable units for all
14 accounts in 2005 and compare that to the current counts;
15 correct?
16 A There was no reason to go back and look at
17 what it was then.
18 Q So the answer is no?
19 A No.
20 Q Am I am correct?
21 A It would be -- You are correct.
22 Q Thank you. And you didn't go back and look at
23 significant industrial user data from 2005 and compare it
24 to the current data; is that correct?
25 A I did not make that comparison.
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1 Q And you didn't look at the influent wastewater
2 strength data at all MSD wastewater treatment plants in
3 2005 and compare that to the current influent wastewater;
4 is that correct?
5 A We're looking at that data, but not as a
6 comparison to that 2005 data.
7 Q The 2005 report has some data in terms of what
8 the impervious area and square feet is in the system. And
9 for example, it says it's 855,000 -- excuse me.
10 855,071,716 square feet of impervious area that's
11 commercial. Do you have any idea how that may have changed
12 to today?
13 A Not off the top of my head, but we did look at
14 data with the storm water rate proposal last year.
15 Q Okay. But you didn't take that data from the
16 storm water proposal and compare it to this data to see if
17 that would change the assumptions of this 2005
18 recommendation, did you?
19 A No.
20 Q Do you know what the plant inflow volume is at
21 the Bissell plant?
22 A Not off the top of my head.
23 Q Do you have any idea if it's the same as the
24 average annual volume between 2001 and 2003 that was used
25 for the 2005 report?
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1 A Don't know.
2 Q So the 2005 report actually is using data from
3 2001, 2003, but it's not even 14 years old. It's almost 20
4 years old. It's a generation that's gone by since the data
5 from this study was created. And you would agree with me
6 that there have been significant changes in the system
7 since that time; isn't that true?
8 A There have been changes in the system since
9 that time.
10 Q I guess the same question Ms. Stump had. I
11 don't know if we're relying on the 2005 report and this
12 data is actually from 2001 to 2003, and we admit that
13 there's been significant changes in the system, why
14 wouldn't we now for this rate go and reanalyze this so that
15 we're certain we have a reasonable allocation in
16 recommending a fair rate? Why wouldn't we do that now,
17 particularly when you're recommending that it ought to be
18 done three years from now?
19 A Well, I think that based on discussions with
20 MSD staff, we felt it was still a reasonable way to recover
21 those costs without changing the -- without doing that
22 analysis because, again, that would take effort and time,
23 and will we have better information even for next time, but
24 I feel -- I believe that the result of this study is still
25 a fair and reasonable determination of the cost of
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1 providing service to the various customers and customer
2 classes of MSD.
3 Q But you have no way of really knowing that
4 because you didn't go back and look and compare the 2005
5 stating the assumptions and data it used? I mean, you're
6 using something that you think may be right, but it's --
7 The comment you made to Mr. Stein, it was, you're making
8 assumptions. And you said to him you would be making an
9 assumption. I don't want to do that. And you're making
10 assumptions now that's not based on current data that this
11 report used to come up with its allocation, so I don't
12 understand how you can come to that conclusion.
13 A Well, I think that at least it's based on an
14 analysis that was performed and the investment in the
15 system and the work that MSD has done. Again, it's a
16 proportionality of that investment, not how the system has
17 changed in totality, that has the impact on the
18 determination of proportion of the infiltration/inflow that
19 can be reasonably allocable to individual customers as
20 opposed to total use of the system based on volume.
21 Q Do you know how much money we've spent to date
22 to eliminate CSOs in this effort to comply?
23 A We've spent a lot of money on CSOs and SSOs.
24 Q Right. So we've made some significant changes
25 in the system?
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1 A Right.
2 Q And this 2005 report doesn't account for any
3 of those changes, does it? It can't --
4 A Right. Right.
5 Q So the answer is, no, it didn't; right?
6 A Right.
7 COMMISSIONER GOSS: I don't have anything
8 further.
9 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Goss. Any
10 questions from any other Rate Commissioners? I have one.
11 EXAMINATION
12 QUESTIONS BY CHAIRMAN TOENJES:
13 Q Mr. Stannard, could you describe the process
14 and a general cost for performing this I&I study?
15 A Based on what I've seen more recently is
16 examining the -- in looking at the hydraulic modeling
17 nature of the system where the data is, I don't know if we
18 have flow meters within the collection system, but I know
19 Great Lakes Water Authority, which is the Detroit
20 metropolitan area, which has combined systems serving the
21 City of Detroit and separated systems serving the suburban
22 communities, there has been several million dollars doing a
23 similar analysis.
24 Q Sir, could you define several?
25 A I would estimate it's around $2 million that
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1 the -- but they're doing part of their master plan, their
2 sewer master plan that is underway, but they're trying to
3 determine the amount of infiltration/inflow and storm flow
4 that is being created within the Detroit system, the City
5 of Detroit, which is combined, relative to what is
6 happening within the suburban communities that are all
7 separated systems. So I can't really give an estimate of
8 what the level of effort that -- You would have to go back
9 and define a scope of services in looking at the
10 information that would be available for MSD today with
11 regard to the system and how we can use that data for an
12 updated analysis. But that's not something -- That's an
13 engineering analysis that would not be something that my
14 firm would do. I would have -- It's like it would have to
15 be done by an engineering firm.
16 Q So it's something that needs to be done, in
17 your opinion, it's just a case of when?
18 A And again, I'm not sure -- Time-wise, yes,
19 it's just -- I don't know how long it would take to do this
20 analysis and in getting the data and then doing whatever
21 metering, flow metering would be necessary to augment that
22 and the sources of those -- that infiltration/inflow and
23 other elements of extraneous flows that enter the system.
24 Q Would you guess this is a six-month, 12-month,
25 18-month process? Any opinion?
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1 A It would be just a guess. I would say it
2 could be approaching 12 months, six to 12-month time frame
3 to do that effort.
4 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Any other questions from
5 any of the Rate Commissioners? Thank you, Mr. Stannard. I
6 think we will begin the next testimony. We will break a
7 little bit later for lunch. We will continue on for a
8 little bit here.
9 MS. MYERS: The District's next witness is
10 Marion Gee.
11 (Witness was sworn.)
12 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Do any members of the Rate
13 Commission have any questions for Mr. Gee at this point?
14 Hearing none, Mr. Neuschafer, do you have questions for Mr.
15 Gee?
16 MR. NEUSCHAFER: Nothing at this time.
17 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Ms. Stump, do you have any
18 questions of Mr. Gee?
19 MS. MYERS: I do not have any questions.
20 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Mr. Myers, do you have
21 questions for Mr. Gee?
22 MS. MYERS: Yes, I do have a few.
23 * * * * *
24 MARION GEE,
25 being produced, sworn and examined, deposes and says:
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1 EXAMINATION
2 QUESTIONS BY MS. MYERS:
3 Q Mr. Gee, has MSD changed the allocation of
4 infiltration and inflow to customers in volume that was
5 used during the 2015 Rate Commission process?
6 A No, we have not made a change to that
7 allocation. For the prior rate proposals, I think it was
8 two rate proposals prior to this one, we used 40 percent
9 allocation to customers and a 60 percent allocation to
10 volume. We have continued with that for this rate proposal
11 as well.
12 Q And what would the impact on the proposed
13 rates of a typical residential customer be if the I&I
14 allocation to customer and volume was changed to 50 percent
15 to 50 percent as recommended by Mr. Gorman? And to assist
16 Marion in his answer, he has put together an exhibit that I
17 would like to pass out to the Rate Commission at this time,
18 if that's appropriate.
19 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Certainly. Let's
20 distribute it.
21 MS. MYERS: It's Exhibit MSD 85.
22 MS. STUMP: Ms. Myers, can I ask you a
23 question?
24 MS. MYERS: Sure.
25 MS. STUMP: So this is the same -- You're
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1 asking him now something that's already in his testimony.
2 This is the same thing that's in his testimony?
3 MS. MYERS: Yes, this has been part of his
4 rebuttal testimony.
5 MS. STUMP: His surrebuttal, just to clarify.
6 Q (By Ms. Myers) Mr. Gee, on page one of your
7 surrebuttal testimony?
8 A That's correct.
9 MS. STUMP: Okay. Thank you. I just want
10 to --
11 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: So this is a duplicate
12 document with what was submitted as part of your
13 surrebuttal?
14 A The numbers are the same. I think I changed
15 the description a little bit so that it was more accurate.
16 MS. MYERS: So let me go ahead and re-ask the
17 question.
18 Q (By Ms. Myers) Looking at Exhibit MSD 85, can
19 you explain to us the impact on the proposed rates of a
20 typical residential customer if the infiltration and inflow
21 allocation was changed to 50 percent to 50 percent as
22 recommended by Mr. Gorman?
23 A Yes. As Mr. Stannard pointed out earlier, the
24 typical MSD customer uses six CCFs, and so this chart
25 depicts what the rate increase is that we're proposing for
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1 FY21 through FY24. So for example, in FY21, we are
2 proposing a 1.9 percent rate adjustment for our typical
3 residential customer. If that allocation was changed to
4 50/50, that rate increase would be 6.7 percent. The impact
5 on the bill would be -- Under our current proposal of
6 1.9 percent, the customer's bill in FY21 for a typical
7 customer would be about $56.60. It would increase under
8 the 50/50 proposal by Mr. Gorman to about $59.30. If you
9 take a look at FY22 to FY24, our rate proposal is
10 requesting 3.8 percent increase for each of those years.
11 If that allocation was changed to 50/50, the impact on our
12 typical residential customer, our increase would need to be
13 approximately 8.7 percent. So we have a significant
14 increase that more than doubles if we were to make that
15 change to the allocation.
16 Q As you testified to in your surrebuttal
17 testimony regarding extra strength surcharge, can you kind
18 of re-explain what the purpose of the extra strength
19 surcharge is?
20 A Yes, wastewater customers that are discharged
21 from businesses, they typically have a higher strength of
22 wastewater than what you would find for a typical
23 residential customer. There are more chemicals and other
24 substances in their wastewater streams that you would not
25 find in a typical residential customer. So it costs more
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1 to remove that additional strength of the wastewater from
2 those customers than it would, again, for a typical
3 wastewater customer. So utilities, wastewater utilities
4 typically charge an extra strength surcharge in order to
5 recover the cost of removing that additional strength of
6 wastewater.
7 Q Okay. And are customers not subject to the
8 extra strength surcharge rate currently subsidizing the
9 amount paid by those customers that are?
10 A Yes, they are. Per our current wastewater
11 proposal, the one that is from FY17 to FY20, from FY17
12 through FY19, our customers that are not commercial
13 customers that are subject to this surcharge, they are
14 subsidizing that by having to pay $1.1 million more than
15 they would if that rate would have been distributed to
16 those customers that are subject to the surcharge. So
17 they're -- Again, they're paying an additional $1.1 million
18 through FY19 that really should be charged to those
19 customers with the higher wastewater strengths.
20 Q Okay. And what would be the anticipated
21 revenue during FY21 through FY24 if the proposed change to
22 the extra strength surcharge rates were approved, and how
23 does this compare to MSD's most recently audited fiscal
24 year, FY18?
25 A Okay. So to give you an example, our extra
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1 strength surcharges would increase in our projected amount
2 of about $5.9 million in FY20, which is the last year of
3 our existing rate cycle, to about 7.1 million in FY21. So
4 that differential of $1.2 million is basically the
5 additional amount that would be needed to cover that amount
6 that's been currently subsidized. And I want to point out,
7 when we did our calculations for this upcoming rate cycle,
8 we didn't go back and look to see -- we didn't go back and
9 try to necessarily recover the amount that was not being
10 charged currently. We based that on numbers for the next
11 rate cycle. So the $7.1 million is actually what would be
12 needed to treat that extra strength surcharge that's coming
13 from those customers. We're not going back trying to
14 recover what we've lost in the current recycle. Again,
15 it's based solely on what it's going to cost to service
16 those customers for the next four-year rate cycle.
17 In FY18, which is our last audited year, there
18 were 118 commercial customers that were billed an extra
19 strength surcharge. And again, for FY18, that amount was
20 $5.7 million. The largest customer that was subject to
21 that surcharge paid $1.6 million or 28 percent of that
22 amount. So 28 percent of that surcharge is paid by our
23 largest commercial customer. I looked at our top ten
24 customers that paid a surcharge, and they were billed
25 $4 million of the 5.7 million, which is 70 percent. So our
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1 top ten commercial customers subject to that surcharge paid
2 70 percent of the amount of 40 percent. The remaining 110
3 customers paid the 1.7 million. Our smallest customer
4 that's subject to a surcharge only paid $137.
5 Q In his surrebuttal testimony, Mr. Gorman
6 indicated that the impact on the wastewater rates was not a
7 factor in establishing the timing of MSD's CIRP spend. Do
8 you agree with this statement?
9 A No, I do not. As Rich mentioned earlier, when
10 we negotiated the amended consent decree with the EPA, the
11 impact on our customers with respect to the rate increase
12 was definitely a consideration. At the time, prior to our
13 negotiations with EPA, we were projecting that the rate
14 increases for this current rate proposal, FY21 to FY24,
15 would have been 11.4 percent. With the amended consent
16 decree, we were able at the time to project rates on
17 average over that four-year period that were about five and
18 a half percent. So that amended consent decree allowed us
19 to reduce that rate increase by about a hundred percent.
20 If not for that, the rate increase would have been doubled
21 what we were asking for at the time. So we definitely did
22 consider the impact on our customers when we negotiated
23 that amended consent decree.
24 Q Okay. And you've heard a little bit this
25 morning about the current flooding conditions that we have.
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1 Will these conditions or the current flood event impact the
2 current rate proposal?
3 A No, it will not. The existing flood event
4 that is currently going on, we were really fortunate in
5 that there's not been a significant amount of damage to any
6 MSD facilities, unlike our 2015 flood event. To give you
7 an example, the event we had in late December, early
8 January of 2016, that was approximately a $24 million event
9 for the District. And of that amount, we were able to
10 recover about 13 million of it from insurance, $6 million
11 of it from FEMA and the remaining $5 million actually
12 related to water -- wastewater backup claims that the
13 District had to pay.
14 We had another flood event two years later,
15 unfortunately, in April of 2017, but that event was much
16 smaller in terms of scale and dollar-wise. We incurred
17 about $2.6 million worth of expenses for that particular
18 flooding. A lot of that, I think, had to do with what we
19 learned from the 2015 flood event. There are some
20 protective measures that were put in place. We got dollars
21 from FEMA that were mitigation dollars to help us to better
22 flood-protect our facilities. All of that kind of
23 contributed to that. I'm certainly not seeing that it made
24 up for that difference. We were fortunate in that I don't
25 think that rain event was as significant.
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1 With respect to the event that's going on now,
2 the bulk of what we're seeing is an increase in overtime
3 expenses in our operations area. We are now projecting
4 that they are going to be about $700,000 over budget in
5 overtime. Our electricity costs are also going to be
6 higher. But even with the projected amounts for additional
7 electricity to operate our flood pumping stations, we're
8 still projecting to be within our budget for electrical
9 costs, so that in itself is a good thing.
10 The most significant expenditure that we were
11 anticipating to carry as a result of this flood event has
12 to do with our wastewater backup claims. Just the claims
13 associated with the floods are projected to cost about
14 $3 million right now.
15 MS. MYERS: That's all I have.
16 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Prior to taking questions
17 from the Rate Commissioners for Mr. Gee, we will take a
18 break until 12:30 and have lunch, and then we will have
19 questions from the Rate Commissioners.
20 (Whereupon, a short break was taken.)
21 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Well, I guess if there's no
22 objection, we will start two minutes early. We will resume
23 our testimony from Mr. Gee, and we are at the point of
24 having questions from the Rate Commissioners for Mr. Gee.
25 Mr. Palans first.
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1 EXAMINATION
2 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER PALANS:
3 Q Thank you. Mr. Gee, just picking up where we
4 left off on the flooding conditions, I think you testified
5 that the current flood conditions have a -- I won't call it
6 minimal impact upon the District, but not a material impact
7 upon the District; correct?
8 A That's correct. That's a fair assessment.
9 Q And the primary costs that you have seen
10 associated with the current flooding conditions relate to
11 overtime costs; correct?
12 A Correct.
13 Q Additional electricity costs?
14 A Correct.
15 Q And wastewater backups?
16 A That's correct.
17 Q I believe you also did a comparison to
18 flooding that occurred in 2015 and '16?
19 A Yes, sir.
20 Q As I recall, the current flooding conditions
21 are reported to be most similar to the great flood that our
22 region experienced in 1993; is that correct?
23 A That's my understanding. But to be honest
24 with you, I would have to defer to our operations people.
25 Q Did you do any look back to the costs that the
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1 District incurred in '93 in response to that flooding
2 situation?
3 A No, sir, I did not. No.
4 Q And if you were to look back at those costs,
5 would they be considered material at that time or you just
6 don't know?
7 A I am not certain. We would have to pull
8 financial records from 1993, and truthfully, if we pulled
9 our audit, it's probably not going to be detailed enough to
10 tell me exactly how much of that related to the '93 flood,
11 but I did not try to do that, though.
12 Q Okay. Mr. Gee, the testimony has been
13 established that the District has no discretion to defer
14 CIRP projects during the rate cycle under the requirements
15 under the consent decree; correct?
16 A Yes. As I understand it, there is very little
17 in terms of what we can defer that's non-regulatory or
18 non-CD related.
19 Q And in fact, as Mr. Unverferth's testimony
20 indicates, about 1.4 billion of the 1.5 billion in costs
21 that are associated in this rate cycle relate to mandatory
22 requirements under the consent decree; right?
23 A That is his testimony, as I recall.
24 Q And our current rate cycle proposes that the
25 District borrow $500 million; is that correct?
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1 A Actually, the $500 million is borrowed funds
2 from a new authorization. In total, I think the borrowed
3 funds is approximately 970 million. Of it, 500 million
4 would be in a new bond authorization.
5 Q So that if this proposal is approved and the
6 voters approve it, the total borrowings with this proposal
7 under this rate cycle would increase to roughly $1.4
8 billion?
9 A Not -- Are you referring to the total
10 outstanding borrowing? I just want to make sure.
11 Q The bonds. I'm talking about bonds.
12 A Our bonds right now, we're at about
13 $1.8 billion.
14 Q 1.8 --
15 A Billion dollars of outstanding bond debt. We,
16 of course, would make principal payments on that between
17 now and the end of the four years, but just -- If we were
18 just to do a rough calculation, add another $970 million to
19 that 1.8.
20 Q So you would be at about 2.7?
21 A Somewhere around that level. I don't have my
22 rate change proposal in front of me, but we actually have
23 that identified in the document.
24 Q So the $500 million that you're requesting
25 approval on under this rate cycle is an incremental amount
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1 that will bring the total borrowings up to 1.8 billion?
2 A The total borrowings for the rate cycle would
3 be about $970 million. Of that, we have authorization for
4 470 million of that now. We would have to obtain voter
5 approval to issue an additional 500 million.
6 Q What is the incremental costs from a P&L
7 standpoint, an annual cost to increase those bonds to
8 $500 million? Why $500 million borrowed?
9 A Okay. Are you asking if we issued a
10 $500 million bond issue, what would that be?
11 Q Yes, sir.
12 A I'm going to defer that question to Tim
13 because I believe he's actually done some research on it --
14 to Mr. Snoke when he comes up to testify to better address
15 that question.
16 Q Okay. Well, don't you have your financial
17 forecast available?
18 A We do, yeah. And I'll point you to where you
19 can find that information in the rate proposal. Give me
20 just a second here. So on page -- I don't know if you have
21 your rate proposal, but on page 4-17 of the rate proposal,
22 it outlines our capital improvement financing plan, and it
23 gives you a breakdown of the sources of funds. So it shows
24 you how much we would issue in terms of both senior and
25 subordinate debt and kind of what those amounts would look
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1 like.
2 Q And point out the line that specifically would
3 relate to this 500 million in increased borrowing?
4 A Well, there's a couple of lines that would
5 relate to that. So if you're looking at that table 4-8,
6 you will see line numbers two, three, and number six and
7 seven identify the borrowings.
8 Q So you're saying that Mr. Snoke could identify
9 the annual cost impact of increasing the authority by
10 $500 million?
11 A That is correct. I believe there is another
12 table. Give me just a moment here. If you turn to
13 page 4-19, it identifies the projected wastewater debt
14 service requirements by year so you can see what both the
15 existing amounts are and what those incremental amounts
16 would be on line one. And two, it shows you the existing
17 amounts for our senior bonds. Line two actually shows the
18 proposed increased associated with debt service for those
19 senior bonds. But we also have SRF funding that we get and
20 also WIFIA funding as well.
21 So in lines four and five, it would show you
22 the projected increase in debt service related to those
23 subordinate items in a WIFIA loan in existing -- as well as
24 the existing amounts that were paid. So in total, it looks
25 like from FY21 to FY24, the additional increase in debt
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1 service would be about $138.5 million.
2 Q Would be $38.5 million?
3 A 138.5. What I'm looking at is the total of
4 line two, that far right-hand column for the proposed bonus
5 or senior bonus, and then the proposed bonds on line five,
6 so that 100 million dollar figure plus the $38.5 million
7 figure.
8 Q And if you were to increase the amount of the
9 requested authority from 500 million to 600 million, would
10 that be approximately a 20 percent increase over what is
11 indicated here?
12 A Not necessarily because -- and the reason I
13 say that is, that $100 million, we would have to calculate
14 the impact of the debt service on our debt service
15 coverage. So it's not as simple as saying, okay, you're
16 increasing it by 20 percent. So would your debt service
17 increased by 20? Probably could, using a rough estimate,
18 but it wouldn't be exact.
19 Q We've heard testimony that if we were to have
20 additional funds available during this rate cycle, I used
21 the number $100 million, we could accelerate our CIRP
22 projects. Were you present and heard that testimony?
23 A I don't recall who exactly said that, but I
24 would say yes, if we had an additional $100 million, we
25 could do one or two things. We could either -- if you're
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1 referring to $100 million of additional debt, we could do
2 additional projects.
3 Q And if we were to increase the rate from what
4 is currently proposed, 1.9 percent in 2021 and then
5 3.8 percent thereafter during the cycle, if we were to
6 increase that rate to five percent, do you have any idea as
7 to what that dollar amount would be in terms of increased
8 revenue annually?
9 A Well, I can tell you right now our budgeted
10 revenues are about a little bit over $400 million, so
11 five percent of that, of the existing amount to date, would
12 be another $20 million.
13 Q And the difference between that $20 million
14 and the proposed rate increase would be what amount?
15 A I would have to do some calculations. Off the
16 top of my head, I don't know.
17 Q To comply with the consent decree, what is the
18 amount of the debt that the District must increase its
19 borrowing level to over the next 20 years?
20 A Well, the consent decree itself, it's
21 approximately a $6.1 billion consent decree, and I think
22 we've spent roughly about two billion of that. So we would
23 need to fund about $4.1 billion. Now, of course, all of
24 that would not be in debt. If we keep our current 60/40
25 debt to cash funding, you're looking at 60 percent of an
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1 additional $4 billion, which would be $2.4 billion, if my
2 math is correct.
3 Q Borrowing more now, increasing the borrowing
4 level now will allow us to accelerate CIRP projects under
5 the consent decree. At this time, the record indicates
6 that we have historically favorable interest rates;
7 correct?
8 A That's correct, and that interest rates are
9 low.
10 Q And we have historically favorable CIRP
11 pricing; correct?
12 A I think we've received favorable bids for some
13 projects. I don't know if I would characterize it as
14 historically favorable bids, but we have -- We've gotten
15 bids that have been above estimates, and we've gotten some
16 that have been below what we estimated.
17 Q And the District currently enjoys a favorable
18 credit rating from the rating agencies; correct?
19 A That is correct. And again, that's based on
20 our -- of course, our current debt levels plus what we
21 projected and what we projected for coverage and cash on
22 hand, so there's a number of factors that go into that
23 favorable rating.
24 Q And the District currently has what I would
25 characterize as a good liquidity position; correct?
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1 A I would agree.
2 Q And if the District would increase its
3 borrowings by $100 million and increase its rates, let's
4 just say to five percent over what is currently forecasted,
5 it would nevertheless improve its liquidity, would it not?
6 A I think if we increase rates, we would improve
7 liquidity to the extent that if you're just going to turn
8 around and spend that on capital projects, then, you know,
9 if I increase the rates and I get $100 million, well, if I
10 spend 100 million on capital, that really doesn't improve
11 my liquidity.
12 Q Well, under the consent decree, the District
13 is required to comply with this consent decree over the
14 course of the next 20 years; correct?
15 A Yes. I think the consent decree ends in 2038,
16 I believe.
17 Q And so if the consent decree is performed, if
18 there are CIRP projects that are required and the
19 regulatory requirements are complied with in advance of
20 2039, it would be a favorable outcome for the District,
21 would it not?
22 A It could be. What we basically would be
23 doing, though, is increasing rates on customers really
24 earlier than we perhaps would need to. So you're saying
25 that maybe we should consider accelerating projects, but we
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1 also have to look at what the impact would be on our
2 customers. Our last four-year rate cycle, our average rate
3 increase was double digits, as I think has been pointed out
4 later. It's 10 percent up to 11 percent. At some point in
5 time, I think customers do experience rate fatigue. So I
6 think what we have traditionally tried to do is to propose
7 rates for projects that we need to get done at as low of a
8 rate as we possibly can while still maintaining a good
9 financial condition as well as favorable bond ratings.
10 But I know it's been -- It sounds like if we
11 proposed our rate increases and we were able to get
12 projects done quicker, EPA may view that as favorable, but
13 I'm not so sure that our rating indices would do that
14 favorably because we would be borrowing more. Certainly,
15 the money we certainly borrowed, we would try to make sure
16 that we had adequate debt service coverages and other
17 ratios that were needed.
18 One thing, too, we have to consider is, what's
19 going to be the impact on that customer to actually paying
20 those increasing bills.
21 Q Well, the Board of Trustees during the last
22 cycle anticipated a 10 percent rate increase to customers,
23 did it not?
24 A During the last rate cycle, the rates actually
25 again were increased by 10 percent to 11 percent during the
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1 four-year rate cycle.
2 Q So merely increasing them now to five percent
3 in lieu of what is currently proposed, 1.9 and 3.8 for the
4 remaining three years, is not an appreciable increase over
5 what was previously anticipated and approved by the Board;
6 correct?
7 A Well, yeah. You have to look at that
8 independently. And what I mean by that is, at the time
9 that the Board approved the rates for the existing rate
10 cycle, they had to consider what were the required projects
11 that needed to be done because our CIRP primarily drives
12 our rate increase to a certain extent. So they had to look
13 at financially what did we need in order to comply with our
14 regulatory requirements with the CD, while at the same time
15 ensuring that we had funds for operational expenses. Well,
16 that has changed for this four-year rate cycle.
17 So again, what our primary focus is, is what
18 are the expenditures that we need and how can we get there
19 with the lowest rate possible so that we have the least
20 impact on customers.
21 Q So your focus has been the lowest rate
22 possible as opposed to completing the CIRP projects in a --
23 or accelerated fashion?
24 A Well, actually, I think as I understand it, I
25 was not here for the last wastewater Rate Commission cycle,
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1 but the Rate Commission itself requested that Stefnotics
2 (sic) accelerate projects.
3 Q Given the historical low interest rate
4 environment, given favorable CIRP pricing, given the
5 liquidity position of the District, given the credit rating
6 of the District, do you consider it good prudent business
7 management to accelerate the CIRP projects given these
8 opportunities?
9 A Again, I think you have to look at what we're
10 trying to accomplish in totality. It's not just about
11 accelerating consent decree projects. We have to look at
12 how our expenditures will impact our customers as well. So
13 it's a little bit more to it than just accelerating those
14 projects.
15 Q Now, I used that analogy before, Fram oil
16 filter, you can either pay me now or pay me later. Would
17 you not agree that paying me later may cost more money than
18 the favorable conditions we have today?
19 A It could, yes. I would agree if we had to
20 borrow money, that could potentially cost more. But again,
21 you also have to look at affordability. I'm sure that when
22 folks go out and they look at buying a home, for instance,
23 and they buy a $200,000 home, most people can't afford to
24 pay cash for a $200,000 home, so they have to borrow in
25 order to make it affordable. We kind of have to do the
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1 same thing here. When we look at the expenditures, and
2 especially our capital program, we try to look at what's
3 going to be the impact on our rates, what is it that
4 customers can afford to pay. And I get what you're saying,
5 that if we could get the consent decree done quicker,
6 long-term would it save us money. Potentially it could,
7 but you also have to look at what can people afford to pay.
8 COMMISSIONER PALANS: Thank you. I have no
9 further questions.
10 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Palans.
11 Mr. Schoedel.
12 EXAMINATION
13 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL:
14 Q Back to the I&I question. Something that we
15 discussed at great length in some of the previous testimony
16 brought up some interesting details that you probably
17 haven't become aware of, that if we went to the 50/50 as
18 currently proposed, the residential rates would increase
19 and the commercial rates would go down. Would the total
20 revenue still maintain?
21 A Yes, the total revenues would not change.
22 It's just who pays that proportion of the revenues.
23 Q I'm curious as to the District's decision as
24 to not to do a different study if one of the things we have
25 to look at is being fair, reasonable to all rate payers,
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1 and to why we didn't look at maybe defining that study that
2 has been stated from back in 2005, is there time to do
3 that. It didn't seem like there's an exorbitant amount of
4 money or time to do something about that to get better,
5 accurate data. Not that I want residential rates to go up,
6 but is it time to get that data, and why did the District
7 decide not to do it during this rate?
8 A Well, again, I think Mr. Stannard kind of
9 discussed that point. At the time, we rely on our
10 technical experts, at least I do, to advise us on do we
11 really -- is -- or have there been substantial changes that
12 would move the needle in terms of this ratio that we're
13 talking about, and they felt confident that the results of
14 that study, while I agree that the information is -- is a
15 little bit dated, would not result in a rate proposal that
16 would be unfair to customers. So we made the decision not
17 to do a study for this particular rate cycle. It's been
18 pointed out we do anticipate -- or it's been recommended
19 that we do a study for the next rate cycle.
20 COMMISSIONER SCHOEDEL: Okay. Thank you.
21 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Questions? Mr. Brockmann
22 and Mr. Goss?
23 EXAMINATION
24 QUESTIONS BY MR. BROCKMANN:
25 Q Mr. Gee, if we were to increase, say, a
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1 million dollars a year, if we were to increase a million
2 dollars a year for construction projects, does MSD have the
3 staff to react to that increase in volume?
4 A For a million dollars?
5 Q I mean 100 million. I'm sorry. A 100
6 million.
7 A That's probably more of a question for Rich.
8 I would say it depends on how many projects that we're
9 talking about. If we're talking about two $50 million
10 projects, then we probably do have the staff for that, but
11 if we're talking about a hundred projects at a million
12 dollars each, maybe not. It really depends.
13 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Mr. Goss.
14 EXAMINATION
15 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER GOSS:
16 Q Mr. Gee, if I could refer you to your
17 surrebuttal testimony, if you could look at that.
18 A Yes, I have that.
19 Q Look at question eight, please. Would you
20 elaborate on your answer? Could you explain that a little
21 bit more fully for me, please?
22 A Sure. And just for the folks that don't have
23 my surrebuttal testimony, what the question is, is the
24 question asked: Why should the District not increase the
25 rates in the proposed FY21 through 24 rate cycle to prevent
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1 potential spikes in rates in FY25. First of all, our rate
2 proposal is for this existing four-year period of time, so
3 that is really what we are focused on. My answer was, is
4 that for the FY25 data that is in the models, we did not go
5 through and analyze that data from FY25. I think we
6 actually showed years going out, I think another 12 years
7 or so in the model. We didn't apply the same level of
8 scrutiny on those numbers for that particular rate cycle or
9 for those particular years that we did for the existing
10 rate cycle.
11 Q Sir, when you say the same level of scrutiny,
12 what does that mean, that analysis? Because that was what
13 I wanted you to explain going forward.
14 A For instance, we didn't go through and try
15 to -- we didn't have data, for instance, for inflation
16 rates that would go out that far over a 16-year period. We
17 didn't apply those rates in the rate model. We didn't go
18 through, for instance, and try and look at our capital
19 program and go into the same level of scrutiny that we made
20 in terms of trying to prioritize projects that were placed
21 in FY25 or in FY30 that we may have the ability to
22 either -- we may have to accelerate some stuff or change
23 things out. We didn't go through that level of exercise
24 because, again, our focus was just on what we were asking
25 the Rate Commission to approve.
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1 Q Okay. So in the second sentence of your
2 answer, you say that given the District's history of
3 projective rate increases beyond previously proposed
4 four-year rate cycles being less than expected, it would be
5 prudent to not increase the rates in the current four-year
6 cycle to mitigate a potential spike in rates in fiscal year
7 '25.
8 A Correct.
9 Q So when I read that, what I take away from
10 that is, while we've done better over four years
11 historically than what we thought, and so since we're not
12 certain what's going to happen in the 2025 year, we really
13 shouldn't try to adjust for something in 2025 because we
14 simply don't know.
15 A That's correct. Yeah, we don't want customers
16 paying a higher rate unnecessarily.
17 Q So the 2025 projected increase is pretty
18 speculative, is what I got out of this; is that a fair
19 statement?
20 A It is at this point, and again, we have not
21 gone through and done the same calculations that we did for
22 the rate cycle.
23 Q When you get to that rate increase or that
24 rate -- that request for rate increase, you will go through
25 that analysis --
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1 A We will.
2 Q -- and you'll -- You're going to know that
3 better, but my takeaway from this is, we just don't know
4 enough to trust that 2025 increase number as solid, so we
5 don't think we should be adjusting the rates in this rate
6 cycle to prevent the current spike?
7 A Correct.
8 COMMISSIONER GOSS: Thank you.
9 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Any other questions by any
10 of the Rate Commissioners? Mr. Gee, I have one question.
11 EXAMINATION
12 QUESTIONS BY CHAIRMAN TOENJES:
13 Q You gave us this exhibit in this D 85?
14 A Yes, sir.
15 Q Do you have similar projections for other
16 classes of rate payers based on this 50/50 change?
17 A I think Mr. Stannard had pointed out some
18 impacts on some of the larger industrial customers at
19 various levels of usage. But the answer to your question,
20 yes, we do have that in the models.
21 Q Okay. Is that part of the current exhibits?
22 A It is not in the exhibit that I provided. I
23 think it's -- Mr. Stannard, in his testimony, I thought
24 referenced an increase, but we did -- I think when we were
25 asked to go back and calculate what the rates would look
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1 like at a 50/50 split, there is a table that's in that rate
2 model that shows what that looks like at various usage
3 levels.
4 Q And it does include all classes of rate
5 payers?
6 A Yes, because we have -- What we do is we
7 project at various usage levels, and the reason we do that
8 is, if you're looking at our commercial customers, there
9 are some commercial customers that use less water than the
10 typical residential customers, so there's a wide range in
11 terms of what that would look like. We have folks from
12 your mom and pop store on the corner to an Anheuser-Busch
13 that's way off the scale. So we have to look at, here's
14 the various levels of usage. But it's not identified
15 necessarily as, here's the residential and here's
16 commercial. Now, we have identified in the rate model what
17 a typical residential customer would look like, but then we
18 have usage levels beyond that as well.
19 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Ms. Stump.
20 EXAMINATION
21 QUESTIONS BY MS. STUMP:
22 Q Mr. Gee, I think the material that you're
23 referring to, from what I understand, is in the rate model
24 itself, which is going to be difficult for the commission
25 to access. Could we get a separate exhibit with that
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1 information so it could be easily --
2 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: That's really what I'm
3 seeking is if you've gone through the exercise for a
4 typical residential customer. And I know what you're
5 saying, there's no such thing as a typical commercial
6 industrial user, but if some sort of groupings could be
7 developed that would reflect those impacts on those other
8 classes of customers similarly, then I think that would be
9 helpful for us to frame our discussions.
10 A Yes. In general, if you're moving from a
11 40 percent customer to 60 -- I'm sorry. Going from what we
12 have right now, which is 40 percent customers/60 percent
13 volume, and you're looking to go to a 50/50, obviously the
14 more volume you use under our 50/50 proposal, the less your
15 wastewater rates would be, but we can produce that.
16 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Any further questions or
17 comments? Mr. Gee, that completes your testimony. Thank
18 you, Mr. Gee.
19 MS. STUMP: Mr. Chair, we need a minute.
20 Mr. Ratzki dropped off. Can we give him a quick call?
21 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Certainly.
22 (Whereupon, a short break was taken.)
23 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Ms. Myers, I see you have
24 another witness.
25 MS. MYERS: Our next witness is Bethany Pugh.
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1 (Witness sworn in.)
2 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you. Do any members
3 of the Rate Commission have questions for Ms. Pugh at this
4 point? Hearing none, Mr. Neuschafer, do you have questions
5 for Ms. Pugh?
6 MR. NEUSCHAFER: We do not.
7 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Ms. Stump, do you have
8 questions for Ms. Pugh?
9 MS. STUMP: I do not.
10 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: And, Ms. Myers, do you have
11 questions for Ms. Pugh?
12 MS. MYERS: I do have a couple.
13 * * * * *
14 BETHANY PUGH,
15 being produced, sworn and examined, deposes and says:
16 EXAMINATION
17 QUESTIONS BY MS. MYERS:
18 Q Bethany, can you briefly restate your role
19 with the District?
20 A I'm with PFM Financial Advisors, LLC, serving
21 as financial advisors to the District in that capacity. We
22 assist on both debt transaction management, i.e., assist
23 with the negotiation and bond pricings, but also the
24 development of a financial plan. I personally have worked
25 with the District since -- or became the lead advisor to
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1 the District since 2012 and have been working in the
2 industry, working with municipal entities, particularly
3 public utilities with respect to long-term financial plans
4 for 20 years.
5 Q And to your knowledge, does MSD have a
6 financial policy targeting capital funding at 70 percent
7 debt and 30 percent cash funding?
8 A No. The District does have a debt management
9 policy, which is provided and available on our website, and
10 it's dated March 22nd, 2004. And while it does state that
11 there should be a mix of debt and capital funding, it does
12 not specify a percentage. What it says is that the
13 percentage should be determined in conjunction or in
14 consideration on affordability of rates and charges and the
15 impact on the debt burden, so there should be a balanced
16 approached to analyzing what the right mix of debt and cash
17 funding of capital should be. It does also speak to
18 liquidity levels in terms of the minimum balance of 45 days
19 of operating expenses.
20 Q And do you believe it is prudent to target a
21 specific percentage of debt and capital funding?
22 A I think what I have observed is it is
23 customary for entities to have a targeted mix, and that's
24 usually in the context of multiple financial metrics,
25 including, for example, debt service coverage and liquidity
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1 targets, and so you will often find that in addition to
2 those other targets, there will be some sort of debt to
3 PAYGO mix that entities are targeting. And I would say
4 that for the way that we've gone about developing the
5 District's rate proposal, the driving financial metrics
6 have been debt service coverage with respect to the
7 District's senior revenue bonds, debt service coverage in
8 aggregate, which is both the senior bonds and the state
9 revolving bond debt of the District, so an aggregate
10 coverage as well as liquidity. And what we've seen is that
11 that is driven the PAYGO mix, i.e., the mix of debt versus
12 cash funding to a result of outcome of these other
13 financial metrics that we have developed in consideration
14 of ratings as well as the debt policy of the District.
15 Q Okay. In the rate proposal process conducted
16 in 2015, your recommendation resulted in a debt to PAYGO
17 mix of 70 percent/30 percent. Did your recommendation to
18 the District change from 2015 to 2019?
19 A No. There was no fundamental change in the
20 recommendations to the District. Similar to the approach
21 we took in 2019, back in 2015, we had a number of financial
22 metrics that we were targeting, 2.5 times coverage with
23 respect to senior debt, which is the same, 2015, 2019.
24 Targets with respect to the amount of cash on hand, which
25 is liquidity metrics. Excuse me. In 2015, given the level
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1 of rate increases that were projected in the double digit
2 range, and in consideration of the debt policy, language
3 around trying to balance rate impact on customers, we did
4 have a target of 1.6 times for aggregate debt service. So
5 that's debt service for both the junior and -- excuse me,
6 for the state resolving fund debt as well as the revenue
7 bond debt.
8 What happened in 2015, which is similar to
9 what happened in 2019, is that the other financial metrics,
10 like the need to have a 2.5 times senior debt service
11 coverage is really what grows revenues. So even though we
12 had a 1.6 times target back in 2015, the need to generate
13 revenues for the senior bond target 2.5 for liquidity, so
14 on and so forth, actually resulted in a coverage number
15 that was significantly higher than 1.6 times. So when you
16 have multiple targets that you're trying to meet at any
17 given time, one target is really what's going to drive the
18 revenue requirements for any given year, which would have
19 caused you to exceed perhaps the minimum of another target.
20 And that's what happened in 2015, and that's what's driven
21 some of the numbers in 2019.
22 And I would say even if we look at the model
23 that Mr. Gorman presented where he's emphasized a target of
24 1.6, but in his calculations, at least the initial models
25 that we saw, the numbers, the targets were a lot higher --
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1 I'm sorry, the results were higher than 1.6 because there
2 were other revenue requirements that are driving those
3 targets higher.
4 MS. MYERS: That's all I have.
5 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Questions from other Rate
6 Commissioners? Mr. Stein.
7 EXAMINATION
8 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER STEIN:
9 Q Ms. Pugh, a few questions about bond ratings.
10 I think from what we've heard, not just in this proceeding,
11 but in earlier proceedings that the District very jealously
12 guard its high bond ratings. It would appear that to do
13 that, one of the things that they are focused on is staying
14 on the conservative side of the debt service coverage
15 ratios that the bond rating agencies put out there. Would
16 you agree with that?
17 A No, I don't think it's conservative. I think
18 the language that all rating agencies have used specific to
19 the District are pretty explicit in that our expectations
20 for you, St. Louis, Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District
21 are this, and so that's really what has driven our targets.
22 And I would have to go back and look, but I believe some of
23 our targets are actually even lower than the median for the
24 particular rating category that we are in. So in the
25 context of the AA rating category, I don't -- I would have
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1 to go back and check to affirm what you're saying. I'm not
2 sure that that's necessarily the case with respect to each
3 of our targets in terms of the metrics.
4 Q If the District elected to go with a lower
5 debt service coverage for X-period of time and the rating
6 agencies then reduced the rating of the bonds, how
7 difficult would that be to say, come back two or three
8 years later at the next bond issue, adjust the ratio back
9 up and reclaim the earlier rating?
10 A As you might expect, it's a lot easier to
11 maintain a level of rating than it is to try and reacquire
12 to build yourself back up because we've set a standard in a
13 history of behavior, which you're getting credit for from
14 the rating agency, but I should say the District is getting
15 credit for in terms of multi-rate cycles and planning for
16 certain coverage levels.
17 And so the management and governance component
18 of the rating, which is a strong portion of how they
19 evaluate ratings, one of the qualitative metrics, you're --
20 as long as you repeat the same behaviors, you're getting
21 credit for that. If you take a step back or the District
22 takes a step back from that behavior and altered that, it
23 would change their expectations for the future. So I don't
24 think you can go back and say, okay, we're going to reduce
25 coverage for 2020, just making up a date, but then we will
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1 come back in 2022 with a new philosophy. I think it would
2 take a lot longer time to re-establish, if you will, a
3 reputation of rate setting within a certain metric. Does
4 that answer your question?
5 COMMISSIONER STEIN: Yes. Thank you.
6 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Mr. Palans.
7 EXAMINATION
8 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER PALANS:
9 Q Good afternoon.
10 A Good afternoon.
11 Q We have before us a proposal that the District
12 proposes to authorize $500 million of additional wastewater
13 revenue bonds; correct?
14 A Yes.
15 Q That's what the --
16 A Well --
17 Q Go ahead.
18 A The request is for an additional authorization
19 of 500 million.
20 Q An additional authorization of 500 million.
21 So an additional authorization of 500 million does not
22 equate with an actual borrowing of the full $500 million;
23 correct?
24 A Correct.
25 Q This is just an authorization; correct?
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1 A Correct.
2 Q And this authorization, as I understand it, in
3 this proposal is going to cost approximately $138.5 million
4 a year?
5 A So the numbers that were referenced in
6 Mr. Gee's testimony are the aggregate incremental increases
7 to debt service over the proposed rate cycle, so that would
8 be fiscal '21 to '24. So it's not an annual number, is my
9 only point.
10 Q You are correct. It is issued during the
11 study period, which is the rate cycle, which would be
12 $138 million over the rate cycle?
13 A Correct.
14 Q And does that assume that the entire
15 $500 million of additional wastewater revenue bonds which
16 are authorized are, in fact, issued and outstanding?
17 A I believe that's right. So the only thing I
18 would say is if there's a 2024 issue, I'm not sure how much
19 of that would be a partial amount of debt service as
20 opposed to a full 12 months. But give or take, that's
21 probably accurate.
22 Q So in lieu of requesting authorization for
23 $500 million, if the District were to request authorization
24 at this vote for $600 million, that does not necessarily
25 mean that the District will borrow all $600 million;
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1 correct?
2 A That's right.
3 Q It just has authority to borrow up to $600
4 million?
5 A Correct.
6 Q What would be the approximate carry cost if
7 the full $100 million of additional bonds were issued?
8 A That's a great question. About six million,
9 give or take. I mean, a lot of -- Obviously, there's a lot
10 of assumptions in terms of interest rates and so on and so
11 forth. So that's annual incremental debt service.
12 Q $6 million --
13 A In incremental debt service.
14 Q -- to borrow an additional $100 million;
15 correct? To issue an additional $100 million of wastewater
16 revenue bonds?
17 A I missed the first part of your question. I'm
18 sorry. Say it one more time.
19 Q Could the court reporter repeat the question?
20 (The requested portion of the
21 record read by the reporter.)
22 A Okay. So assuming the $30 million bond
23 issuance to fund $100 million of proceeds, current market
24 rates with a little bit of an interest rate cushion, your
25 annual incremental debt service cost is approximately
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1 $6 million. So six million times 30, $180 million.
2 Q And would this additional cost materially
3 adversely impact the liquidity of the District?
4 A Are you asking without a rate -- without an
5 incremental rate increase, what would an additional
6 $6 million impact?
7 Q I'm asking what the impact of an additional
8 $6 million cost would be upon the liquidity of the
9 District?
10 A Without any changes to the rates?
11 Q Correct.
12 A Let me put it this way, without any changes to
13 the proposed rates, the rates as proposed but with an
14 additional $100 million worth of debt?
15 Q Yes.
16 A Well, it would have a direct impact on
17 liquidity because the way we've structured this now, right,
18 is we're meeting all of our kind of coverage targets with
19 $500 million in additional authorization. You add an
20 additional $100 million, and we assume we issued that all
21 upfront, that's an additional $6 million dollars each year.
22 That's $24 million over the rate cycle that's going to come
23 right out of liquidity, if I'm thinking about this
24 correctly, and is also going to have a disproportionate
25 impact on coverage. And I don't think it's going to be
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1 enough to move the needle from -- Again, this is all off
2 the top of my head without doing an analysis. I don't
3 think that in and of itself over a four-year period is
4 going to necessarily move the needle on some of the ratings
5 components, but it will have a direct impact on liquidity.
6 Q So the additional -- borrowing of additional
7 $100 million of wastewater revenue bonds would not
8 adversely impact the credit rating of the District?
9 A I would say -- We'd want to do more analysis
10 on that. I wouldn't advise it, right, without an analysis
11 on whether the rates should increase.
12 Q Understood.
13 A Because over the long term, it would have an
14 impact on coverage. I would just think if we're looking at
15 it in the context of this particular rate proposal over a
16 four-year time -- and to be fair, I was answering the
17 question in the context of liquidity initially, not
18 necessarily in the context of rating impact. So that's a
19 bit of a different analysis because then you're talking
20 about adding an additional $100 million to the amount of
21 debt you have outstanding and how would the rating agencies
22 look like that. I don't think it's going to have a huge
23 impact on these four years on coverage. It will have a
24 direct impact on liquidity. I would want to do more
25 analysis before I could answer your question about a
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1 ratings impact.
2 COMMISSIONER PALANS: Thank you. I have no
3 further questions.
4 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Palans. Any
5 other questions for Ms. Pugh? Thank you very much.
6 THE WITNESS: Thank you.
7 MS. MYERS: The District's last witness is Tim
8 Snoke.
9 (Witness is sworn in.)
10 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Do any members of the Rate
11 Commission have questions for Mr. Snoke at this point? I'm
12 going to ask you one.
13 THE WITNESS: Okay.
14 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: I'm going to really break
15 the model here.
16 THE WITNESS: Okay.
17 * * * * *
18 TIM SNOKE,
19 being produced, sworn and examined, deposes and says:
20
21 EXAMINATION
22 QUESTIONS BY CHAIRMAN TOENJES:
23 Q We heard earlier from Mr. Beckley about this
24 depreciation calculation and the variances therein. Could
25 you discuss that issue a little bit?
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1 A Yeah. That's actually probably a question for
2 Marion, maybe.
3 MR. GEE: I'm not sure what his question is.
4 A So if you have a debt question, I'm the person
5 to ask. If you're talking about something from the
6 financial statements in the District, it's probably more
7 Marion.
8 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: So maybe I will ask the
9 District through you to provide some additional detail on
10 those depreciation calculations from the prior rate case
11 interrogations therein.
12 MS. MYERS: Okay.
13 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you. Any questions
14 from any of the other Rate Commissioners at this point?
15 Mr. Neuschafer.
16 MR. NEUSCHAFER: Yes.
17 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Do you have questions for
18 Mr. Snoke?
19 EXAMINATION
20 QUESTIONS BY MR. NEUSCHAFER:
21 Q Okay. We've talked a lot about bond ratings
22 this afternoon.
23 A Yes.
24 Q And what I -- What I want to start out asking
25 about is, have you done an analysis of what the impact is
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1 if MSD were to slip a notch in a bond rating?
2 A I don't remember if PFM put something together
3 in the past that showed what it would be, but we should
4 expect higher costs. I think at this point it is ample
5 basis points, 15 basis points, 20 basis points is what
6 we've seen historically, maybe higher. I'm looking at you.
7 We stayed within the AA category. So right now we're, you
8 know, AA plus. If we go to AA, that's a lot smaller
9 increase than if we drop to something of a single A
10 category. But of course, we don't get to choose what our
11 ratings are. So once you go down, we're at the mercy of
12 the ratings.
13 Q And if you were -- If MSD were to drop down,
14 it is possible to -- you're aware Ms. Pugh talked about
15 this a little bit, that it might be difficult to come back
16 up or more difficult to come back up and to maintain. But
17 it's not impossible to improve your credit rating?
18 A It's not impossible to come back at some
19 point. I think, as you mentioned, it would just take time.
20 Those ratings usually are set -- using outlook over a
21 couple of few years, if you look at some of the ratings, it
22 will say this is what we expect over the next few years.
23 So you know, one change or improvement in one year is not
24 going to have them swing ratings up. It will take a
25 sustained period of time before I believe a ratings
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1 increase would be considered.
2 Q Generally, does revenue stability have a
3 positive impact on your bond rating?
4 A I think -- I think it does, but its revenue
5 stability also plays a factor in the key metrics that they
6 look at, which would be things like debt coverage and
7 liquidity. So if you don't have revenue stability, you're
8 going to see it in those factors as well. But I think
9 rating agencies and some of the reports have mentioned that
10 if we saw a big dropoff in the usage, for example, that
11 would be a factor they would consider at that point.
12 MR. NEUSCHAFER: That's all I've got. Thank
13 you.
14 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Neuschafer.
15 Ms. Stump, do you have question?
16 MS. STUMP: Yes, I do.
17 EXAMINATION
18 QUESTIONS BY MS. STUMP:
19 Q Good afternoon.
20 A Good afternoon.
21 Q Just a couple of questions. Do you have your
22 testimony on surrebuttal in front of you?
23 A I do.
24 Q On page -- Well, really starting with your
25 question four. You talk about the potential impact if you
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1 would have to come back to the Rate Commission if the
2 approved rates are not to cover the CIRP?
3 A Right.
4 Q And on page four, you say the need for more
5 frequent rate proposals should be expected to be seen as a
6 deterioration in the financial strength and stability of
7 the District. Could you explain that a little bit, please?
8 A Sure. So in our discussions with the rating
9 agencies -- and I'm the primary contact for the rating
10 agencies for PFM and the ones that have the most direct
11 contact -- Our four-year cycle is a huge strength for our
12 District. It is viewed positively by the ratings agency,
13 it's viewed positively by the debt investors because they
14 have certainty now or some certainty in what our rates of
15 revenue would be over a multi-year period. To do that more
16 frequently adds a lot of uncertainty into the process, and
17 they can't be sure of what rates will be in a couple of
18 years.
19 So I think when you look at entities that do
20 maybe annual rates -- have annual rate cycles, that's is a
21 lot more uncertainty and you probably see more lower
22 ratings.
23 Q Okay. Thank you. And then on page five,
24 there is just a sentence. I'm struggling with it, and I
25 just want you to -- I don't know if it's me or if you could
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1 explain it.
2 A Sure.
3 Q At the end of question five, you say,
4 "Overall, wastewater user charges for this cycle are
5 actually projected to be lower with the 60/40 debt PAYGO
6 mix than they would be with the historical average of 75/25
7 due to the higher projected debt service and resulting DSC
8 ratios associated with the 75 percent debt/25 percent PAYGO
9 mix."
10 A Right. So the Intervenor claims that we have
11 historical 75/25 mix, that that's a policy. It's not a
12 policy. That's more of an average. We modeled at both
13 levels. The rates that we were proposing are actually
14 lower at 60/40 because if we went to more debt service, if
15 we -- I'm sorry. If we did more debt funding, it would
16 increase debt service. In order to maintain our targeted
17 coverage ratios -- In order to maintain to those ratios, we
18 would have to increase revenue even more. So what you see
19 over time is the amount that we are proposing, the debt
20 from the CIRP has gone down. It was 85 percent in fiscal
21 years '13 to '16 rate proposal. It was 70 percent in the
22 last rate proposal. It's 60 percent in this one, and each
23 of those are resulting in lower rate increases to the rate
24 payer than it would if we did more debt. That's what that
25 means.
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1 MS. STUMP: Okay. Thank you. That's all the
2 questions that I have.
3 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Ms. Stump. Ms.
4 Myers, do you have any further questions?
5 MS. MYERS: Yes, I do.
6 EXAMINATION
7 QUESTIONS BY MS. MYERS:
8 Q Mr. Snoke, did you review the Intervenor's
9 surrebuttal testimony?
10 A Yes, I did.
11 Q And did you review the Intervenor's revised
12 model that they submitted?
13 A Yes, I did.
14 Q Okay. And at the previous testimony, the
15 Intervenor admitted that there were errors in that model.
16 Did he correct the errors that he noted in his original
17 model?
18 A Well, he did adjust the coupon rates on the
19 new debt to a standard -- to a level that's more in line
20 with current market standards, so I was glad to see that.
21 But he did not use the model that he asked for in discovery
22 to calculate premiums, nor did he use the calculations that
23 he asked us to prepare for different yield levels to
24 calculate premium and debt service. And so the result is
25 the model, the premiums that he's showing are using a piece
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1 of the model that was never intended to be used to
2 calculate premiums. It was a piece that we had turned off
3 and overridden with premiums from PFM's model.
4 Q Is that what the impact of not using the model
5 correctly was?
6 A Right. So the impact is that he's calculating
7 the premium in a flat 12 and a half percent, whatever the
8 par amount of the debt is. So that's resulting in an extra
9 $66 million of premium in his model. That is $66 million
10 of premium that if rates go up above the low yield that
11 he's projecting, if yields go up from there, that 66
12 million starts to disappear as a funding source. And if
13 rates move to the level that we have in our model, that 66
14 million disappears entirely.
15 And so that would be money that would have to
16 come from either additional debt funding or from cash
17 financing, and since he doesn't have a contingency in his
18 model for rising rates either, it's a flat 12 and a half
19 percent every year, there is no way to get that additional
20 funding without a deterioration in our credit metrics.
21 Q And his model still assumes a lower overall
22 level of CIRP spending?
23 A That's right. So the 140 million that we've
24 talked about, that Rich has testified that we do not have
25 flexibility to move, that is out of his model. So if you
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1 add 140 million of capital funding back in, that increases
2 the risk actually.
3 Q Have you reconciled this with the Intervenor's
4 claim that MSD's interest rate assumptions imposed
5 significant cost on customers?
6 A No, I would say it's the other way around.
7 Actually, in our model we're showing less total debt
8 service cost than he's showing in his model because of
9 timing of debt. But overall, I think his model adds
10 significant risk to our financial stability and financial
11 health. Again, if rates rise, and we're talking just to
12 levels that we saw -- the implied yield in his model is at
13 levels we saw just last October and November of last year.
14 So if rates rise beyond that, the premium
15 that's in his model, like I said, starts to shrink and
16 eventually disappears. So there is a lot more risk in
17 getting that premium calculation wrong than there is if
18 you -- if rates don't rise as high as what's in our model,
19 that would be, you know, could be up to a couple million
20 dollars in debt service costs. His model could be tens of
21 million dollars of CIRP funding that's at risk.
22 Q Are there any other options for handling the
23 shortfall in funding that would arise if interest rates
24 increase?
25 A Not any that are feasible. We've already
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1 testified that we don't have the flexibility to delay
2 projects. Ms. Stump just asked about another or internal
3 Rate Commission hearing. That takes a lot of time. It's
4 roughly a year from the time we start preparing these to
5 the time that the Board, you know, accepts or rejects a
6 Rate Commission recommendation. It's expensive, it's
7 time-consuming and, as I said in my surrebuttal testimony,
8 I do believe that that would be seen as deterioration in
9 our financial strength and stability.
10 Q Are there any other material differences
11 between MSD's CIRP funding model and the Intervenor's?
12 A Yes. The biggest one that comes to mind is
13 the debt service coverage target. So our debt service --
14 I'm sorry. Debt service coverage target is two and a half
15 times on senior debt. So debt service coverage is the
16 amount of revenue we have after operating expenses to cash
17 fund the CIRP and to pay for debt, interest and principal.
18 So we target a number of two and a half times on senior
19 debt cost and 1.8 times on total debt cost. That's based
20 on, you know, feedback we've received from the rating
21 agencies. The Intervenor shows levels of 2.4 in his model
22 and wants to change our 1.8 target to 1.6 times, which is
23 not only below our historical averages, it's below industry
24 medians and below the rating agencies' expectations that
25 they've outlined for us in their reports.
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1 Q Has debt service coverage exceeded targets in
2 the past?
3 A Yes. The targets have changed slightly as our
4 debt burden has grown and as the rating agencies'
5 expectations have changed. So they've communicated that to
6 us not only verbally, but also in the reports that they put
7 out for the investing community. So not only have our
8 targets changed, I would say modestly, but the industry
9 medians have also changed much more quickly. So we're
10 actually behind the industry medians now, as Bethany
11 alluded to.
12 Q Are there any other material differences
13 between MSD's CIRP funding model and the Intervenor's?
14 A I think the debt service coverage is probably
15 the biggest one. There was the funding portion of the
16 CIRP, which again I think I answered that question when Ms.
17 Stump asked about it. But the 60/40 model actually
18 produces lower revenues. There are, I think, flaws in his
19 model and in his assumptions that don't let him see that
20 right now or he recognizes and states in his rebuttal
21 answer, rebuttal testimony that he does expect the cash
22 funding of the CIRP to increase over time. It's just --
23 It's happening now.
24 Q And have MSD's debt service coverage targets
25 changed over the last few rate proposals?
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1 A So they have changed. Like I said, they have
2 changed modestly. So two proposals ago, we targeted 2.3
3 total debt service coverage and 1.6 -- I'm sorry. 2.3
4 senior debt coverage and 1.3 total debt coverage. In this
5 one, we are at 2.5 and 1.8, so modest increase. In the
6 middle there, right in the middle, we were 2.5 and 1.6.
7 And as I also mentioned, the medians have moved a lot
8 faster. So when we were at 2.3 and 1.6, the -- I'm going
9 to use Fitch's medians because they publish the most robust
10 set of medians. Their AA medians were at 2.3 and 1.9, so
11 we were a little below at 2.3 and 1.6. They were 2.3, 1.9.
12 For fiscal year '17/20 when we were at 2.5 and 1.6 targets,
13 the medians for AA ratings were actually 2.5 and 2.0. So
14 we're falling just a little bit more behind there. But in
15 this cycle, while we are projecting 2.5 and 1.8, which I
16 think is reasonable based on what the rating agencies have
17 said about our credit, I think we do need to recognize that
18 the Fitch ratings are 3.2 and 2.5, which are significantly
19 higher than where we are today.
20 Q And what do these rating agencies say their
21 expectations are for us?
22 A The rating agencies are pretty clear about
23 what they expect from us. We have the -- I think it's
24 Exhibits 38 through 40 are the ratings reports from our
25 2017 aid debt. So in those, Moody states that narrowed
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1 liquidity or debt service coverage would be a factor that
2 could lead to a downgrade as well as inability to
3 successfully manage the consent decree. Just for a
4 context, when they say narrow liquidity or debt service
5 coverage, this is on the heels of several years where our
6 actual reported coverage metrics were around 2.9 and 1.9.
7 So when they're saying narrow, they're talking about from
8 where we've been reporting our coverage interest.
9 Fitch is a little bit more straightforward.
10 So in Exhibit MSD 40, Fitch, first of all, notes that
11 they -- their debt coverage calculations for us was 1.8. I
12 think we said we reported 1.9. So they tweaked that
13 coverage, and they very specifically said they expect
14 coverage levels to come in at around 1.9 times over the
15 next few years. Fitch also notes that even that is
16 somewhat of a deterioration in our coverage over the last
17 few years. And I'm going to quote from their report, they
18 say that, "Ongoing retail support will be critical to
19 maintenance of the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District's
20 rating given the rapid escalation in system debt. Coverage
21 margins," which is what we're talking about, "are leveraged
22 weaker than the forecast levels," that's their 1.9, "or
23 decline in liquidity below historical norms would be
24 expected to result in negative rating actions." So I
25 believe this directly contradicts the Intervenor's
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1 testimony that 1.6 is adequate.
2 Q And does MSD have a policy that sets its debt
3 service coverage target?
4 A No, there is no -- There is no set policy. We
5 have to be flexible and change as the investor rating
6 agencies' expectations for us change.
7 Q Is there a policy that sets the amount of the
8 CIRP that is debt-funded?
9 A No. Also, you know, in order to minimize
10 revenue increase, we need to be flexible with the amount of
11 CIRP that is debted-funded as well. So the 60/40 debt
12 versus cash funding that we're proposing in this model is
13 not due to a policy, it's more of an output from the model
14 than an input. So as Bethany mentioned, there's a lot of
15 different financial factors that we're trying to balance.
16 And so it came up that in this cycle, a 60/40 split
17 actually allowed for lower revenue increases than 70/30
18 would.
19 Q How has the amount of the capital plan that is
20 funded by debt changed over time?
21 A So as I mentioned earlier, a couple of rate
22 proposals ago, it was 85 percent funded. The last rate
23 proposal was 70 percent debt funding. This one is
24 60 percent debt funding. So again, it's just a result of
25 managing rate increases and trying to stay within the
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1 target financial increase.
2 Q Does Mr. Gorman see this the same way?
3 A Well, he might say he doesn't, but as I
4 mentioned, in his rebuttal and surrebuttal testimony, he
5 acknowledges that over time this is going to happen.
6 Again, I think there's flaws in his model and his
7 assumptions to keep him from recognizing that it's
8 happening now.
9 Q And what are those?
10 A We talked about some of them. For example,
11 the 140 million of CIRP that's not in his model is a
12 factor. I believe ignoring the rating agencies' statements
13 and expectations for us is a factor. One we haven't
14 touched on is the level of operating reserves. So his
15 operating references are much higher than ours. I think if
16 you correct for those things, you would see that his plan
17 would also have close to 60 percent debt-funded rates.
18 Q And you mentioned more than once how financing
19 decisions impact wastewater rates. Is it fair to say that
20 MSD does consider the impact of higher wastewater rates in
21 its decision-making?
22 A Absolutely. So every day we're making
23 decisions that we don't have to make, but we do them
24 because it lowers future rate increases. For example, just
25 on the debt financing, just since the last proposal, some
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1 of the things that we've done is refinance debt for
2 savings. We didn't need to do that to stay in compliance
3 with debt coverage or to maintain our ratings, but doing so
4 lowers future debt costs and maybe we can lower future
5 revenue increases. Unfortunately, the tax law changed and
6 so we can no longer advance your fund debt. That's a
7 refinancing for savings before the call date, tax exempt
8 rates. So we're going to be a little bit more limited
9 there going forward.
10 The fact that we pursued with the funding,
11 that we tried to get more SRF funding than we proposed.
12 Those are other factors that lowered that service cost and
13 lowered rates as well. There have been times we haven't
14 issued debt even though we would have -- the proposal would
15 have shown it. That's because we didn't need the funds
16 that would have locked in debt service costs. These are
17 all factors that are part of why we're showing you lower
18 rate increases today than what we projected to show a few
19 years ago. It's not all an accident.
20 I think the biggest one is the consent decree
21 extension. There were regulatory changes that meant that
22 the incinerator project had to be moved up. We didn't have
23 to go to the EPA to ask for an extension, but we did. And
24 rate affordability was a key and central theme to that
25 request and one of the reasons I think that the EPA granted
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1 the extension.
2 MS. MYERS: I have no further questions.
3 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Ms. Myers.
4 Questions from Rate Commissioners?
5 EXAMINATION
6 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER PALANS:
7 Q Mr. Snoke, what is your title or position with
8 the District?
9 A My title is secretary/treasurer.
10 Q And could you describe what the scope of your
11 duties as secretary and treasurer of the District is?
12 A Sure. So I'm going to split it up. So the
13 treasurer part is a little more straightforward. So I am
14 responsible for overseeing the safety and liquidity of the
15 District's funds. So I manage our borrowing programs, our
16 investing programs, our bank accounts and liquidity. Those
17 are all within my group on the treasury side. And then on
18 the secretary piece, I report directly to the Board of
19 Trustees, and so I help run the board meetings, I am the
20 keeper of records for the District. All the Sunshine
21 requests come through my group. So I think those are kind
22 of the high level things.
23 Q Do your duties include being familiar, more
24 than familiar, but intimately familiar with the financials
25 of the District?
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1 A Yes. So my -- I would say overall, yes. I
2 don't study them probably as closely as Marion does since
3 his group puts together all the financial reports, but --
4 So I bring Marion along when I go and talk to the rating
5 agencies, but definitely on the debt and investment side
6 and overall position, I think, yes, I'm very familiar with
7 the District's financials.
8 Q And in your surrebuttal testimony with respect
9 to interest rates, you say that not making a sufficient
10 allowance for the possibility of rising interest rates over
11 the next five years is dangerous to the integrity of MSD's
12 financial plan and to its strong AA ratings?
13 A That's correct.
14 Q And you go on to say that interest rates are
15 extremely difficult to forecast and they are volatile.
16 A That's correct.
17 Q And you also say that rates are near historic
18 lows today.
19 A That's also correct.
20 Q The current proposal is to authorize -- You
21 want District voters to authorize $500 million of
22 additional wastewater revenue bonds; correct?
23 A Correct.
24 Q And merely authorizing those bonds is not
25 tantamount to borrowing all of them at once and paying for
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1 all of them at once, is it?
2 A It is not, that's correct.
3 Q And is there -- Is there any additional costs
4 associated with seeking voter approval to authorize
5 $600 million of additional wastewater revenue bonds?
6 A Just asking for $600 million will cost no more
7 than asking.
8 Q No more ink on the ballot; right?
9 A Correct.
10 Q And you indicate that the debt service for the
11 senior revenue bonds and SRF financing proposed to be
12 issued during the study period, this is the rate cycle,
13 will be approximately $138.5 million; correct?
14 A That's correct.
15 Q If we were to seek approval for an additional
16 $100 million, and if that additional $100 million of
17 additional bonds were issued, what would be the approximate
18 cost of that additional $100 million?
19 A As Bethany said, it would be about $6 million
20 a year for the life of those bonds.
21 Q Do you consider $6 million cost per year to be
22 a material cost to the District?
23 A I don't think from the liquidity standpoint it
24 would have a -- It would obviously reduce the amount we
25 have to spend by $6 million per year. I'd be a little more
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1 concerned on the debt coverage side because every dollar of
2 debt service cost we want to cover by two and a half times
3 of its senior debt. So $6 million of additional debt
4 service at the senior debt level would have to come with
5 $15 million of additional revenues in order to keep the
6 debt service coverage level the same, exactly the same.
7 Q Would issuing an additional $100 million of
8 wastewater revenue bonds result, in your opinion, in a
9 downgrade of rating from the credit rating agency?
10 A I think it would depend on other factors, but
11 not necessarily by itself.
12 Q Would the increase of $100 million of
13 additional wastewater revenue bonds result in additional
14 loss of liquidity to the District?
15 A There would be some loss of liquidity. I
16 would say on the liquidity side it wouldn't be more, it
17 wouldn't be material. I would be more concerned on the
18 debt coverage side.
19 Q So it wouldn't be a material on the debt
20 service side?
21 A On the liquidity side, it would not be
22 material.
23 Q Given the historic low interest rates, the
24 favorable pricing that the District has enjoyed with regard
25 to bidding on CIRP projects, do you not believe it would be
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1 good and prudent business management to request an
2 additional authorization of $100 million of wastewater
3 revenue bonds?
4 A Well, I think there's a couple of ways to look
5 at it. So if I were in the -- in maybe the corporate
6 world, I could definitely see, you know, borrowing money
7 while it was low. But I agree with what Marion said, we do
8 have to balance that with rate payer impacts. So when we
9 talked about going to the EPA for consenting to an
10 extension, we look at affordability. And so we look at our
11 rates as a percentage of median household income within our
12 service area. And for the last, not just the last rate
13 cycle, but the one before that, too, we saw double digit
14 rate increases, and so our rates were really much higher
15 than wages were, the median household income was. And so
16 while we're not near affordability limit, you know, we were
17 gaining ground on where those limits were.
18 And so I don't -- I can see why you would
19 think it makes sense to borrow more when rates are low, and
20 as the person who is in charge of borrowing, I can support
21 that. But I also understand why some might argue that it's
22 time to have lower rate increases and just let wages and
23 median household income catch up a little bit so that we
24 can make sure that we maintain affordable rates into the
25 future.
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1 Q Given that interest rates and your
2 acknowledgment in your surrebuttal are volatile, would it
3 not be good, prudent business management to seek
4 authorization for an additional $100 million? I'm talking
5 authorization for $100 million.
6 A The authorization, as I mentioned, would not
7 cost any bit more. We chose 500 million because, based on
8 the proposal we've put in front of you, we actually only
9 plan to use about, I think, 366 million of that. That was
10 in my original direct testimony a couple of months ago, I
11 guess, at this point. And so 500 million seems sufficient
12 so that we had even a little bit left over as we started
13 the next cycle. But as I mentioned, it wouldn't cost any
14 more to do 600 million.
15 Q So we're talking about a $6 million hit to
16 liquidity on an annual basis if we were to authorize and,
17 in fact, borrow the additional $100 million; correct?
18 A That's correct.
19 Q Mr. Snoke, one more question. Do you have an
20 estimate as to what the annual discretionary expenses that
21 the District incurs a year are?
22 A That I do not. I'm sorry. That is a detail
23 beyond what I use in my debt investment management
24 functions. I'm sorry.
25 Q No opinion on it?
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1 A Not an informed one, no.
2 Q How about an uninformed one?
3 A I would rather not. Thank you.
4 COMMISSIONER PALANS: I have no further
5 questions.
6 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Palans. Mr.
7 Goss.
8 EXAMINATION
9 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER GOSS:
10 Q Mr. Snoke, in 2016, the District was assigned
11 bond ratings in connection with bond issue in 2016. You
12 recall that; right?
13 A Yes.
14 Q And the bond rates are standard as far as AAA
15 and AA, plus for Fitch and AA1 for Moody's --
16 A Yeah.
17 Q -- investors. So prior to that, what was the
18 bond rating for the District, do you know?
19 A So for the 2015 issuance, they were the same.
20 I did not -- I started in 2014. We did not issue bonds
21 that year. We had sufficient liquidity in bond proceeds
22 from a previous debt authorization, so we didn't issue
23 bonds in '14. And there was at some point -- We were AAA
24 with Fitch at one point after 2010, and so we were
25 downgraded from AAA to AAA plus at some point. I want to
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1 say --
2 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: I will date myself. When I
3 came on the Rate Commission, we were AAA rating.
4 A Okay. So that was probably within the last
5 ten years. So we've had these ratings for multiple years,
6 the current ratings.
7 Q (By Commissioner Goss) And the bond rating has
8 changed at least once, we just talked about. Has the bond
9 rating for the District ever changed other than that?
10 A PFM. Bethany, you've been here longer than I
11 have.
12 MS. PUGH: So I think in 2013, they switched.
13 One of the rating agencies actually gave us an upgrade --
14 THE REPORTER: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I can't
15 hear.
16 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Based on the information,
17 I'm not sure what year it was. But could you identify
18 yourself?
19 MR. SCHNACKENBERG: Matt Schnackenberg with
20 PFM.
21 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you.
22 MR. SCHNACKENBERG: One year, and I'm still
23 looking up what year it is, but the ratings actually
24 switched where Fitch, we received a downgrade, and SMP, we
25 received an upgrade to AAA.
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1 Q (By Commissioner Goss) So I guess we had the
2 same ratings, just distributed a little differently?
3 A And I'm not sure at some point it sounds like
4 we may have been AAA. I think we started borrowing in
5 2004.
6 Q So prior to 2004, the District didn't have any
7 bond ratings because it wasn't following --
8 A Yeah, for the years immediately prior to 2004,
9 there is no debt outstanding. If you go back in history,
10 there was some District debt, but not the same.
11 Q Do we have a table or information that would
12 show us the bond ratings over the three agencies from the
13 District from 2004 to the present?
14 A We could gather it pretty easily if we don't
15 have it.
16 Q And if there's any changes in those rates,
17 would you be able to tell us why you believe the agency
18 changed those rates?
19 A They probably, when they issued the reports,
20 told us why.
21 Q Would that be information that you could
22 supply us as well?
23 A Absolutely.
24 COMMISSIONER GOSS: Thank you. I'd appreciate
25 it very much. That's all.
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1 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Goss. Any
2 other questions from any Rate Commissioners? Hearing none,
3 thank you, Mr. Snoke. We will take a break until 2:00
4 o'clock.
5 (Whereupon, a short break was taken.)
6 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Let's reconvene here, and
7 our next witness does not appear to be in the room right
8 now, Mr. Neuschafer. Yes. Good afternoon, Mr. Neuschafer,
9 and good afternoon, Mr. Gorman.
10 (Witness sworn in.)
11 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you. Do any members
12 of the Rate Commissioners have questions for Mr. Gorman at
13 this point? Hearing none, Ms. Myers, do you have questions
14 for Mr. Gorman?
15 MS. MYERS: We do not.
16 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Ms. Stump, do you have any
17 questions for Mr. Gorman?
18 MS. STUMP: I do. Just a minute.
19 * * * * *
20 MICHAEL GORMAN,
21 being produced, sworn and examined, deposes and says:
22 EXAMINATION
23 QUESTIONS BY MS. STUMP:
24 Q Good afternoon.
25 A Good afternoon.
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1 Q You will recall this morning that I spoke to
2 Mr. Unverferth about your testimony, specifically on
3 page five of your surrebuttal testimony --
4 A Thank you.
5 Q -- about deferring. And I just wanted you to
6 give the -- he gave his feelings on that paragraph, and I
7 wanted you to have the opportunity to explain it or
8 respond.
9 A Thank you. We asked specifically for the
10 priority MSD employed in determining the amount and the
11 annual spend related to their annual CIRP program. In that
12 response, they did provide two documents that outlined
13 priorities and outlined scheduling protocols. In neither
14 of those documents did either the priorities or the
15 scheduling protocols include an assessment of managing cost
16 of service and identifying the annual level of CIRP
17 spending. From that standpoint, I concluded that their
18 formal protocols do not include a wastewater cost of
19 service protocol in identifying the annual level of
20 expenditures programs.
21 This morning, Mr. Unverferth and several other
22 witnesses did tell us that wastewater rates is a factor
23 that should be considered in designing the annual level of
24 CIRP spending. Very glad to hear that for the first time
25 this morning. I was also pleased to hear that MSD has once
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1 before sought authority with the EPA to delay capital
2 expenditures that had to be implemented in accordance with
3 their consent decree in order to manage the impact on their
4 wastewater customers. My recommendation in this proceeding
5 is essentially they do the same thing one more time.
6 If you look at my testimony, on page four, it
7 outlined their budgeted level of CIRP spending now through
8 2028, and it is significant that there is a significant
9 jump in annual CIRP spending for fiscal years '23 and '24.
10 To the extent they are capable of deferring some of those
11 capital expenditures to periods between 2025 and 2028 to
12 levelize the annual spending, that will have a very
13 significant reduction in the increase in wastewater rates
14 that would be necessary to support a higher level of CIRP
15 capital expenditures in those two years.
16 Q And, Mr. Gorman, in the testimony you heard
17 this morning, and you heard them say that they do not
18 believe that they have the discretion to move the projects
19 from '23 and '24 to '25 and '26. Do you disagree with that
20 statement?
21 A I do, I think, for two reasons. First, the
22 commitments on a lot of the incinerators goes out through
23 the calendar year 2026, so I believe they do have some
24 discretion to delay some of their capital expenditures. I
25 also learned this morning, again for the first time, that
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1 it might be possible to negotiate an extension in the
2 permitting with the EPA to allow them a little more
3 flexibility to try to spread out this annual level of CIRP
4 spending. I think there may be opportunities available to
5 MSD staff, particularly if the Rate Commission directs them
6 to pursue them to allow them to better vantage the cost of
7 service impact on their wastewater customers in this case
8 than what they currently propose to do.
9 Q And then as we talk about just the issue of
10 changing and spreading out CIRP for two more years,
11 spreading out those projects, I will use the words of
12 Mr. Goss who frequently says, well, as far as the rates are
13 concerned, what does that mean to me and do I care. So
14 what would be the effect -- Have you computed what the
15 effect on the rates would be if changing those -- removing
16 that 70 million each year out?
17 A Yeah. The 70 million delay two years in a row
18 will reduce revenue requirements by the end of the
19 four-year period by roughly about $20 million per year in
20 wastewater revenue, and you can easily confirm that. What
21 we've heard today is MSD staff is proposing a 60/40 rate
22 revenue funding and debt funding in capital expenditure
23 programs. If you reduce your amount of CIRP spending by
24 $70 million, that's $24 million of reduced rate revenue
25 funding alone. There's also a reduction in the amount of
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1 additional debt service they would have to take on.
2 Now, there's some offsets to that because
3 there's a lot of moving parts in the model, apparently a
4 model that isn't working correctly, according to Mr. Snoke.
5 But just from that one standpoint alone, by taking the
6 spike in CIRP funding, '23 and '24, and reducing it by
7 $70 million and maintaining a 30/70 equity and funding mix
8 for CIRP funding as I proposed, would reduce the amount of
9 revenue funding needed to fund that capital expenditure
10 program by about $20 million, which is right in line with
11 the way I modeled it using the model that the MSD staff
12 gave the Rate Commission under the understanding that there
13 was a rate model that was wired up and would allow parties
14 to use it in the way that vantaged the revised estimates
15 what the wastewater cost service would be.
16 Q Can you turn to page 18 of your testimony, 18
17 and 19? And this is where we talked about the impact of
18 I/I, and you have run what you believe the impact would be
19 based on a 50/50 allocation. Have you had the chance to
20 look at this in comparison with what Mr. Gee provided?
21 A He did it a little differently, so I could
22 have read the rate impact, but it's not directly
23 comparable. This is a class cost of service impact.
24 Essentially, it measures the impact on all residential and
25 non-residential customers. In comparison, Mr. Gee
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1 estimated the rates from the allocation of cost and then
2 used those rates to measure the impact on the typical
3 customer. So this just kind of measures the residential
4 customers as a group for any measure of the impact on a
5 typical residential customer based on typical load
6 characteristics.
7 Q Do you disagree in any way with Mr. Gee?
8 Because I know he just gave us that today, but his chart
9 was in his surrebuttal testimony.
10 A No, I think it's -- It seems pretty much in
11 line with what I have estimated it would be, yes.
12 Q Okay.
13 A Although, I want to be clear that this is not
14 the rates I proposed because I did not propose to move
15 rates across the service. I get them closer, I believe,
16 because I'm proposing to put more of the increase on the
17 fixed cost and less on volume charges, which is more
18 consistent with what I believe to be a more accurate class
19 cost of service study, and I also believe it produces a
20 more stable revenue collection for MSD because the fixed
21 charges don't vary from month to month as much as the
22 volume charges do, which is significant, I think, for a
23 utility that's taken on more debt than more stable revenue
24 collection.
25 But the impact on the residential customers
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1 under my rate proposal would not be as significant as Mr.
2 Gee has estimated because I have not proposed to remove
3 everybody all the way across the service.
4 MS. STUMP: Okay. I have no further
5 questions.
6 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Any other Rate
7 Commissioners have questions for Mr. Gorman? Mr. Palans.
8 EXAMINATION
9 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER PALANS:
10 Q Mr. Gorman, on page two of your surrebuttal,
11 paragraph one, talking about interest rates, your second
12 sentence you say, "I found that MSD's projected interest
13 rates or new bond issues during the period exceeded current
14 and likely prospective market rate costs of these new bond
15 issuances." Interest rates is speculative, is it not?
16 A It is.
17 Q It's subject to many external factors, is it
18 not?
19 A It is.
20 Q It could be impacted by some Korean dictator
21 launching a missile, could it not?
22 A It could, and we don't know if that would
23 cause them to go up or down.
24 Q So would it not be prudent to recommend at
25 least some adjustment for the possibility of future upward
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1 pressure on interest rates and not based solely on current
2 economic conditions?
3 A Well, in my assessment of interest rates, I
4 did rely on independent consensus economists projected
5 changes in interest rates in my direct testimony. I did
6 remove that proposed change and the cost of service and
7 revised my model to reflect what their interest rate
8 assumptions were when they provided that model to me, so
9 that would include the change in the bond premiums as well
10 as the interest rates on the bonds. So it is a difficult
11 forecast. There is a lot of uncertainty. I will
12 acknowledge that. But the uncertainty doesn't just mean
13 that interest rates could go up. It does mean that they
14 could stay at relatively low levels like they've been. And
15 if you listen to what the federal reserve told us
16 yesterday, interest rates may go down again, for part of
17 the forecast period anyway.
18 So there is a lot of uncertainty, but the
19 uncertainty doesn't simply mean that interest rates are
20 more likely to go up than they are to stay flat or to even
21 decrease.
22 Q Do you agree with Ms. Lemoine's statement that
23 the rate change proposal should include at least some
24 adjustment for the possibility of future upward pressure on
25 interest rates and not be based solely on current economic
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1 conditions?
2 A Like I said, I agree with her because I did
3 look at projected changes in interest rates in arriving at
4 what I thought to be more reasonable outlooks for interest
5 rates in the forecast period. But unlike MSD, I did not
6 rely on my individual projections, I instead relied on
7 consensus economists' outlooks for changes in interest.
8 Q Do you agree with Ms. Pugh's supplemental
9 surrebuttal that it is prudent to assume a rise in interest
10 rates?
11 A Well, I did do that in this case, but I don't
12 necessarily agree that it's always reasonable to assume an
13 increase in interest rates, particularly over relatively
14 medium-term forecast. Three to five years typically is
15 what I would refer to as a medium forecast. So a
16 significant increase in interest rates over the next three
17 to five years I don't think is reasonable because I don't
18 think there's any market evidence that would support that
19 much of a conservative estimate in measuring MSD's cost of
20 service in this case. Possibly some increase relative to
21 current levels would be appropriate, only because there is
22 always a little bit of an outlook for an increase in
23 interest rates by independent economists. But right now,
24 independent economists' projections of interest rate
25 changes over the next two years in particular is not for
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1 significant change. Over the next three to five years is
2 maybe a little increase, but not a significant increase.
3 Q Do you agree with Mr. Snoke's statement that
4 not making a sufficient allowance for the possibility of
5 rising interest rates over the next five years is dangerous
6 to the integrity of MSD's financial plan and to its strong
7 AA ratings?
8 A I believe it's reasonable to make reasonable
9 projections of what the cost of service will be. I'm not
10 sure that they fully recover their cost of service and
11 bring out adequate debt service coverage ratio and maintain
12 adequate liquidity to support their bond rating. But
13 there's a whole host of factors that go into that,
14 including ensuring that customers pay only just and
15 reasonable rates for the services provided to them. So I
16 think there is a balance that needs to be exercised by the
17 Rate Commission in ensuring that financial integrity of the
18 MSD is preserved, but at the same time, rates charged
19 through their retail customers are reasonable and don't
20 reflect too many contingencies of highly uncertain unknown
21 facts that may or may not impact cost of service over the
22 next four years.
23 COMMISSIONER PALANS: Thank you. I have no
24 further questions.
25 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Palans. Any
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1 other questions? Mr. Goss.
2 EXAMINATION
3 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER GOSS:
4 Q Two questions. In your surrebuttal testimony,
5 you cited that MSD 59 percent of the storm -- of the flow
6 into the treatment plants comes from I&I. Do you recall
7 that in your surrebuttal?
8 A I assumed 50/50 because I thought that's about
9 as balanced as -- Yeah, I'm sorry. Yes, page 17. That's
10 correct.
11 Q On page 17 you said, "For MSD, I&I represents
12 about 59 percent of the total wastewater flow reaching the
13 treatment plants each year." Do you see that?
14 A Yes.
15 Q Where did you get that data?
16 A That came out of one of the company's work
17 papers.
18 Q Do you recall which exhibit that came from?
19 A I can provide that to you. I don't have it
20 with me.
21 Q I would like to see that. I would like to
22 know the citation if you could give it to us. And in your
23 experience, is that typical to the District to have that
24 percentage of I&I in their wastewater level? Do you have a
25 basis for giving that opinion?
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1 A It depends on the age of the wastewater
2 system. I don't know if there is a standard. It depends
3 on when the measurement is made, what the weather
4 conditions are when it's made. So it can vary over time.
5 It can vary based on, you know, how modern the
6 infrastructure is. It can certainly vary based on how much
7 distribution pipe length they have, how many lift stations
8 they have, how many manhole covers they have. The actual
9 infrastructure itself is a big factor. But I really can't
10 say that that's what you typically see across all
11 wastewater utilities. I think it's more an individual
12 utility perspective and the weather conditions that existed
13 when that amount of inflow was measured.
14 Q Do you know if the 2005 study used that
15 percentage?
16 A I would have to double-check that. I do not
17 know off the top of my head.
18 Q And do you know if -- Ms. Stump, you were
19 raising your hand?
20 MS. STUMP: I was just going to tell you that
21 I did find, Mr. Goss, the statement on the 59 percent is
22 actually in the rate change proposal on page 431,
23 "District-wide I/I is approximately 59 percent of the total
24 wastewater flow reaching the treatment plants on an annual
25 basis." Sorry to interrupt.
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1 COMMISSIONER GOSS: That's all right. When
2 they gave -- When they made that statement in the rate
3 proposal, did they cite to any data or supporting data for
4 that, or that's just a statement in the proposal?
5 MS. STUMP: It's just a statement in that
6 section of the proposal.
7 Q (By Commissioner Goss) And do you have any
8 knowledge about the Kansas City system? We were talking
9 about the Kansas City system, I believe with Mr. Stannard,
10 would be a comparable system to MSD as opposed to St. Joe.
11 So do you know what the I&I is in the Kansas City system?
12 A I do not know what the Kansas City system is,
13 but I do have quite a bit of experience in the Indianapolis
14 system, and that is a city that's along the river. Not the
15 Missouri River, but a significant river. It also is an I&I
16 study that is only a few years ago, and that I&I study
17 indicated it would be appropriate to assign I&I cost on the
18 basis of 75 percent customers/25 percent volume. And also,
19 it's -- it's also a wastewater system that is in the midst
20 of undertaking a very consistent capital improvement
21 program based on EPA consent decree, including
22 installations of storm water tunnel systems. So from that
23 standpoint, it's very similar to MSD, and the I&I study is
24 relatively new.
25 Q I know that the City of Atlanta has also gone
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1 through a significant capital improvement program because
2 of the EPA -- an EPA consent decree. Do you have any sense
3 of what the Atlanta sewer system I&I --
4 A I never worked on that system.
5 Q And to obtain the data from Indianapolis, is
6 that something that you could supply us with?
7 A If it's not confidential, I can, yes.
8 Q I don't want you to violate any
9 confidentiality clauses.
10 A It is a Black & Veatch study, so I mean, with
11 a Black & Veatch witness in the room, I would be able to
12 comment.
13 COMMISSIONER GOSS: Thank you.
14 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Any further questions? Mr.
15 Gorman, I have a couple.
16 EXAMINATION
17 QUESTIONS BY CHAIRMAN TOENJES:
18 Q During Mr. Snoke's testimony, he talked about
19 this 1.9, two and a half times, you know, for the debt
20 service and the debt coverage and your model being 1.6.
21 How would you speak to that particular concern?
22 A Well, first, I would appreciate it if we could
23 at least describe each other's testimonies' correctly.
24 When I spoke to 1.6, I was referring to rate-making policy
25 and MSD stats have undertaken at least the last three rate
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1 increases. When I proposed my revenue requirement in this
2 case, I did not adjust the revenue requirement down to 1.6
3 times. That's a disingenuous representation. It's not
4 true. When I -- When I developed the revenue requirement
5 for this utility, I specifically designed it for about
6 30 percent rate revenue funding and 70 percent debt
7 funding. That produced a debt service coverage that ranged
8 from 1.7 up to about 1.9 times. Nowhere in my testimony do
9 I recommend a revenue requirement of 1.6 times. That's a
10 disingenuous representation.
11 In modeling the revenue requirement, I used
12 MSD's model, the model they provided to this Rate
13 Commission when you asked them for a model that had all the
14 formula intact that allowed for a participant in this rate
15 proceeding to model the changes in the revenue requirement
16 based on whatever issues we would want to take with what
17 the MSD did.
18 So the suggestion by Mr. Snoke that I provided
19 a model with incorrect numbers was also a little
20 disingenuous because I used his model. I simply adjusted
21 the model from data inputs provided by the rate consultant
22 to instead allow the model to calculate the financial
23 parameters themselves. And again, the model that was
24 requested by this Rate Commission was intended to be a
25 fully functional model to allow for just that kind of
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1 manipulation, and in order to make recommendations to this
2 commission on different revenue requirements based on
3 different assumptions on what the cost of service would be.
4 So I'm a little taken aback by that representation.
5 But my testimony based on the model MSD
6 provided this Rate Commission, adjusted the revenue
7 requirement based on roughly 30 percent rate revenue
8 funding and 70 percent bond funding mix of the CIRP
9 program. Just like MSD said, they were able to negotiate
10 with the EPA, they modified their annual CIRP program,
11 mitigated the impact on customers' rates before. My
12 recommendation is for them to do that one more time, in '23
13 and '24, to find a way to move about $140 million, 70
14 million each year of capital programs, only two years, and
15 when you do that, you do significantly reduce the revenue
16 rates of the last two years of the rate cycle,
17 approximately $20 million per year. If you can do that
18 without comparing the utility's ability to meet its EPA
19 obligations or its other regulatory obligations, then
20 you'll significantly decrease the revenue increase and rate
21 increase on MSD's customers in this case.
22 All of that was modeled in the rate model, the
23 functioning rate model that MSD staff provided this Rate
24 Commission to accommodate those changes. I withdrew my
25 interest rate change because there seemed to be a lot of
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1 concern about not giving enough contingencies in the -- in
2 the MSD's uncertain outlook of what certain factors may be
3 their cost of service going forward, so I removed that. So
4 when I adjusted, reversed that adjustment, I simply put
5 back in the rate -- interest rate assumption MSD originally
6 had in the model.
7 The only other model change I made was the
8 funding mix of rather than 60/40, it was 70/30, and
9 apparently the model didn't correctly adjust for the amount
10 of bond proceeds when you made that change in the model,
11 even though it was presented to the commission as a fully
12 functioning rate model.
13 Q Does that impact that premium that Mr. Snoke
14 referred to --
15 A Yes. He suggested that --
16 Q Is that the $600 million premium?
17 A I'm sorry. He suggested that when I adjusted
18 the rate revenue funding for issue of additional bonds that
19 the premium on those bonds should have also adjusted.
20 Well, when I increased the amount of bonds, that may
21 suggest that the premium might go up. But in any event,
22 the rate model wasn't fully functioning correctly, so it
23 didn't make those adjustments in sync with one another,
24 again, even though it was a model provided by MSD staff
25 under the understanding that it was a fully functioning
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1 rate model.
2 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Any other questions for Mr.
3 Gorman? Mr. Neuschafer, do you have any questions for Mr.
4 Gorman?
5 MR. NEUSCHAFER: Yes, I do have a few
6 questions.
7 EXAMINATION
8 QUESTIONS BY MR. NEUSCHAFER:
9 Q Mike, you have heard questions about whether
10 the I&I study and allocation are reliable and can be used
11 for cost of service. Do you have an opinion on whether
12 there is a way to ensure that rates are fair and reasonable
13 for all customers given concerns about the age and quality
14 of that study?
15 A I do, and I think it's generally consistent
16 within the industry when a regulatory commission is faced
17 with a situation where it doesn't have a cost of service
18 model that it has confidence in, the accuracy of the model
19 in question, that the regulatory commission typically will
20 simply adjust rates on an equal percent basis to ensure
21 that no customer is harmed by the utility offering it at a
22 rate the cost of service model was based on in some way,
23 some data that is not reliable. I believe that's
24 consistent with the rate consultant witness, the loans
25 recommendations in this proceeding. And I think if there
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1 is concern about the accuracy of that cost of service
2 model, then I would agree with her that that typically is
3 the methodology that most often is employed by regulatory
4 commissions to ensure that no customer is harmed by the
5 utilities' failure to provide a reliable cost of service to
6 them.
7 Q Mr. Gee provided us what MSD labeled as
8 Exhibit MSD 85 earlier today. If the I&I study is not
9 reliable, does this schedule show what might be a more
10 reliable application for classes of customers?
11 A Yeah, I think it -- Essentially you can use
12 this and try to gauge just what the impact on a residential
13 customer would be with an equal percent change. Under the
14 companies' current proposal, it would be around 1.9 percent
15 in the first year. I believe that the increase was a
16 little less than three, so -- and under the 50/50 I&I
17 study, the increase would be about 6.7, with an equal
18 percent change would be three percent, which would be
19 roughly right in the middle of these two proposals. And
20 then if MSD was directed to perform an I&I study before its
21 next rate case, then at least there would be more
22 confidence that there was some concern about ensuring that
23 no customer group specifically was harmed by use of this
24 study that no longer was reasonably representative of the
25 utility system in this case.
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1 Q We've talked some about extra strength
2 surcharges today and wanted to know if you had any response
3 to the testimony on extra strength surcharges being
4 underestimated or understated in the last cost of service
5 study and now being used to justify?
6 A Yeah, I do, and Mr. Beckley's testimony
7 essentially is that he performed some analysis they
8 considered depreciation expense on capital investments of
9 certain plant investment to determine that surcharge
10 revenues were not adequate to recover the cost of extra
11 strength particles delivered to the wastewater treatment
12 plant. And he's also the witness sponsored the class cost
13 of service study.
14 His explanation didn't make sense to me. The
15 rate design for utilities should recover the wastewater
16 revenue requirement of the utility. The wastewater revenue
17 requirement developed in this case does not recognize
18 depreciation expense as a cost of service for any elements
19 of the wastewater system. Depreciation expense is removed
20 from class cost of service, and it is replaced with
21 principal payments on bonds. It is replaced with rate
22 revenue funding, which is the whole financial policy
23 arguments that we've been talking about. Those are what
24 goes into developing the wastewater revenue requirement,
25 and the rates then should be designed in which all classes
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1 pay a fair share of that revenue requirement for wastewater
2 service. Again, depreciation expense is not in that mix.
3 So his entire explanation kind of distorts how
4 he determined that waste surcharge revenue was not
5 adequately recovering the utility's cost of extra strength
6 surcharges relative to how the utility's recovering
7 developing a revenue requirement allows it to recover all
8 of its element of providing service, including the extra
9 strength surcharges. None of that includes a depreciation
10 expense component. So he's -- Truly he's mixing apples and
11 oranges and arriving at what his proposed rate design is,
12 as his explanation simply does not comport with the way
13 wastewater revenue requirements are being developed in this
14 case.
15 Q I know you were present for Ms. Pugh's
16 testimony on credit rating and debt service coverage ratio.
17 Do you have any response or thoughts on her testimony?
18 A Yeah, only one. I mean, she stated that the
19 rating agencies are very clear, and they are in some
20 respects, but what they're not clear on what appropriate
21 rate setting financial policy is. I've included quotes
22 from all the regulatory credit rating agencies in my
23 testimony. All of these reports are in the record. And if
24 you look at them, the credit rating agencies have been
25 looking at the rate making treatment of MSD over the last
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1 12 years and find the decisional metrics you've been using
2 to establish wastewater revenue requirements have
3 contributed to the strong credit rating of MSD. That
4 includes the old mix of 75 percent debt/25 percent rate
5 revenue funding that produced that service coverage ratios
6 that S&P explicitly noted are no less than 1.6 times debt
7 service coverage, but actually have exceeded that level
8 more recently.
9 Fitch, in particular, and I believe she noted
10 this in her comment or maybe it was Mr. Snoke, that
11 forecasted going forward debt service coverage ratios on
12 the total debt service basis would be about 1.9 times, but
13 then they explicitly stated that the rating is based on a
14 lower debt service coverage ratio, knowing that, if they're
15 familiar with the rate making process, that the revenue
16 requirement has not been set to produce at that service
17 coverage as high as MSD has actually been earning because
18 then their forecast across the service has consistently
19 exceeded what their actual cost of service is and allowed
20 them to earn a DSC that's higher than what DSC was implied
21 in the rate making forecast.
22 So all of that presumably is available to
23 credit rating agencies, but the credit rating agencies are
24 clear that the rate making protocols this condition has
25 been using are predictable and are credit supportive. And
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1 importantly, the rate setting protocols this commission has
2 complete -- consistently used for at least for the last 12
3 years has been roughly 75/25 debt pay-as-you-go funding mix
4 that ensured the debt service coverage ratio would not be
5 less than 1.6 times, which was the financial policy I still
6 embraced, although under my proposal, I proposed to bump it
7 up a little bit, recognizing that we're moving towards the
8 end of the CIRP program and that the debt service coverage
9 ratio is likely going to be the metric that is going to be
10 driving the overall level of revenue requirement very soon.
11 Q I believe there was some testimony earlier
12 from Mr. Snoke about filing rate cases, the impact that
13 might have on credit rating. Have you ever suggested that
14 MSD should change the four-year rate cycle?
15 A I have not. I believe Mr. Snoke took out of
16 context testimony at the last hearing where I was asked
17 whether or not there would be any way the MSD could respond
18 if the revenue requirement was set at a level that did not
19 fully recover the cost of service, and at that time I noted
20 that the credit rating agencies just want assurance that
21 the MSD's rates will be adjusted for cost of service,
22 assuming they manage the cost of service in a reasonable
23 and prudent way.
24 And one way to give the MSD less cushion in
25 their forecast right now would be to give them certain
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1 rights to come in if a forecast with less contingencies
2 turned out to be a little shy of what their actual cost of
3 service is. And I noted that maybe at that point they
4 could come in for an additional rate increase outside of
5 the four-year cycle. It was not my testimony that they
6 replace annual rate cases, the four-year cycle with annual
7 rate cases. It was my testimony that if the MSD needed it,
8 they could come in for an additional rate change inside the
9 four-year rate cycle in order to provide more assurance to
10 the credit analysts that rates will recover their cost of
11 service, and do so again while managing just prices to
12 wastewater customers under a just and reasonable level,
13 which is a factor I think MSD staff should give more weight
14 to.
15 Q Based on the remaining testimony you heard
16 today, is there anything else that you would like to add to
17 your testimony in response to anything that you have heard
18 today?
19 A I have not. I will say that MIEC has been an
20 Intervenor in these rate cases for every rate cycle since
21 the consent to create was implemented. We were
22 instrumental in convincing this Rate Commission that 75/25
23 was an appropriate funding mix for the CIRP program,
24 knowing that the MSD debt was going to increase
25 significantly over time. We had a lot of opposition to
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1 that testimony initially, and as we can see now with the
2 credit reports, that funding mix has delivered what we
3 thought it would deliver, that is a strong credit standing
4 for the MSD and much cheaper wastewater rates than what MSD
5 proposed when it first started the consent decree capital
6 program. At that time, the MSD wanted to fund everything
7 with 100 percent rate revenue funding. We found that to be
8 unreasonable.
9 Every step of the way through this process, we
10 have focused our attention on the adequacy of revenues to
11 provide strong credit metrics and maintain strong credit
12 standing to respect the MSD's obligation to make necessary
13 capital investments to remain in compliance with the
14 regulatory obligations, but to do all of that while still
15 managing to the greatest extent possible the level of
16 wastewater rates so they can be as competitive as possible
17 to MSD's retail customers. Our objective in these rate
18 cases has been consistent in every rate case they've had
19 over the last 12 years, and that is our objective in this
20 case.
21 MR. NEUSCHAFER: Thank you.
22 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Mr. Goss.
23 EXAMINATION
24 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER GOSS:
25 Q Mr. Gorman, I went back and I looked at the
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1 2005 study again, trying to understand it. And that study,
2 this is the wet weather cost study, was focused on trying
3 to figure out what kind of adjustments should be made in
4 the cost allocation from the 33/67 percent allocation,
5 which is where we were -- where MSD was at the time that
6 they began the study to whether a different allocation
7 should be appropriate.
8 So if I read this report right, the first CDM
9 who did this, first took MSD's proposal model and then ran
10 a lot of different alternatives from zero percent, 50/50,
11 60/40, so they were testing -- It was a sensitivity
12 analysis to try to see what impact that would have on the
13 rates for individual customers. And in the MSD model that
14 they were testing, the I&I allocation was 45 percent, and
15 that was across all the different alternative models. And
16 then CDM ran its own analysis, and the I&I allocation they
17 used was 33 percent. So those seemed to be the assumptions
18 of the two different sets of sensitivity analyses. What
19 does that mean? I mean, instead of 59 percent, they used
20 45 percent and 33 percent. How would that affect the
21 allocation?
22 A Well, they're measuring the amount of
23 infiltration and inflow into the collector system and
24 ultimately into the wastewater treatment plants, and
25 they're trying to get a sense of just -- the capacity of
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1 those -- of that infrastructure that is necessary to
2 accommodate the actual wastewater flow of the system, but
3 to have adequate capacity when the infrastructure is maxed
4 out because of wet weather conditions.
5 So it's a means of identifying just how big of
6 a collector system you have to build, how big of a
7 wastewater treatment plant that might be necessary to
8 accommodate all the volume of fluids that come into the
9 plant. Part of that study is going to be impacted in this
10 case, if it is updated, by MSD's ability to revert certain
11 wet weather condition water flows and prevent it from
12 blowing into the wastewater treatment plant under a
13 non-controlled condition. So that will have a big impact,
14 most likely, on the results of the I&I study. You have to
15 do the study, of course, to confirm that.
16 But the system we have today is very different
17 than the system back then. So the amount of waste -- the
18 amount of infiltration and inflow volume going into the
19 system is managed very differently now and will continue to
20 be managed differently over time as the MSD's ability to
21 separate wastewater from storm water becomes more advanced
22 in their ability to manage volume movement into wastewater
23 treatment, which is more of a controlled level.
24 Q So is it true that determining the proper fair
25 allocation between residential rate payers and commercial
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1 rate payers we've been talking about, it's affected by this
2 percentage we're assuming of I&I that's coming in the
3 system; is that true?
4 A That affects the utility's costs, so yeah.
5 The question is, is how much cost is attributable to it and
6 how do you identify some way of barely allocating that
7 additional cost across the customer's own system.
8 Q So is it appropriate to be relying upon the
9 2005 study if it was using 33 percent and 45 percent as
10 their two alternative I&I factors as opposed to 59 percent,
11 which is what MSD is telling us is currently the case?
12 A I don't think it is, because I think the
13 system is very different now. We won't know whether or not
14 the new study, if there is a new study, will change those
15 assumptions significantly. And if the assumptions are
16 updated and they do turn out to be the same as they were
17 back then, which I think is unlikely, then at least there
18 will be some data supporting the finding on that
19 appropriate number. But the only way you're going to know
20 what the new study will tell you is to update the study.
21 Q So is that something that you're recommending
22 be done now or was that something that can be deferred to
23 the next rate proposal?
24 A Well, I think an updated study would be ideal.
25 It depends on the cost of the updated study. We need to be
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1 careful with that because if the Board directs MSD that it
2 has to do a study, then it's almost certain the cost of
3 that study is going to be twice as much as what the cost
4 would be if MSD just decided to update their study. So I
5 think there needs to be some flexibility that they update
6 the study if they can add a reasonable cost for an updated
7 study.
8 But in terms of setting rates right now, I
9 think there needs to be recognition that a study conducted
10 14 years ago does not reasonably reflect the system that is
11 in existence today, and it's very different than the
12 results of studies that have been updated for other
13 utilities that I'm aware of that are undergoing similar
14 transformations of their systems, which may or may not be
15 appropriate for MSD.
16 So it's a double-edged sword. You want -- It
17 would be nice to have the study. You don't want to overpay
18 for it, but at the same time, you don't want to use a study
19 that you just don't have confidence in that accurately
20 reflects what the system is today.
21 Q And in fact, some of the data from this study
22 was actually based on 2001 to 2003 data, so it's really
23 more than 14 years old?
24 A The data is, yes.
25 Q Is part of the study they used a report that
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1 EPA made to Congress? I think they used that in
2 conjunction with the SSO portion of the study. Are you
3 familiar with that?
4 A At a very high level. I mean, it was not used
5 for rate setting for interclass cost allocations and that.
6 It's my understanding that it was -- it was information
7 that was useful for recessing just how much infiltration
8 groundwater and surface water into the collector system in
9 the wastewater treatment plants.
10 Q So it backs up the assumptions of 33 or
11 45 percent; is that what you're saying?
12 A Presumably, yes. That would be my -- I don't
13 know for certain what that would be.
14 COMMISSIONER GOSS: Thank you. That's all I
15 have.
16 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Mr. Palans.
17 EXAMINATION
18 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER PALANS:
19 Q I'm really confused. We've got a
20 responsibility to make findings that the rate that is
21 proposed is fair and reasonable on all rate payers. It
22 seems like we're going through a transition, and the
23 consent decree is one big transition until the systems are
24 finally upgraded. What are other municipalities -- strike
25 that -- sewer districts doing today that are operating
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1 under consent decrees that will improve their system and
2 yet make such allocation today that is fair and reasonable?
3 A Well, Indianapolis did have a more recent I&I
4 study performed, so to the extent the price of the study is
5 reasonable, then it's worth undertaking.
6 Q Would it -- Certainly when the improvements
7 are made to the River Des Peres project, to the Deer Creek
8 project, when those projects are completed, would that be
9 an appropriate time to do this study?
10 A The study would be more of a factor of the
11 collector system around the wastewater treatment plants,
12 how much of that water actually gets to wastewater
13 treatment plants. So you know, it would be worth talking
14 to the engineer performing the study, but I would not think
15 there be would a need to delay the study until all the
16 wastewater treatment plants have been upgraded.
17 Q But the system is also upgrading wastewater
18 and storm water to keep storm water out of the wastewater
19 system; right?
20 A Yes.
21 Q So until these improvements are completed, are
22 we really spending our money wisely for such a study?
23 A Again, I would talk to the engineer that is
24 performing the study, but you are fairly close to the end
25 of most of the major renovations on the system. Whether or
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1 not it makes sense to do it in the next four years or the
2 next eight years, I can't answer.
3 Q My understanding is that these projects have a
4 life that will be four and five more years for resolution.
5 What would you suggest our commission do today to make a
6 finding of fair and reasonable allocation?
7 A Well, I think a 60/40 classification of the
8 costs associated with I&I is too heavily weighted toward
9 volume, and I base that on what other utilities I've worked
10 on used for I&I cost allocations. I think there has been
11 strong suggestions that it makes more sense to have an
12 actual study of MSD system to do a more accurate
13 determination of when appropriate classification of
14 customer and volume metric components of the I&I cost
15 should be. I think that makes a lot of sense as long as
16 the study cost is reasonable. And again, I'm only
17 cautioning the Rate Commission that if the staff is ordered
18 to do the study, the study is going to be a lot more
19 expensive. And from a customer advocate, I don't want to
20 put MSD in a position where they have to spend money
21 unwisely. So I think a study upgrade is good, but when
22 it's done, it should be done at a reasonable price.
23 COMMISSIONER GOSS: Thank you.
24 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Any further questions for
25 Mr. Gorman? Mr. Gorman, I appreciate your statement about
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1 the historical involvement of MIEC in these rate cases and
2 I, for one, truly appreciate all the hard work that you and
3 MIEC have done on behalf of the customers. Thank you.
4 THE WITNESS: Thank you.
5 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Ms. Stump, are you ready to
6 proceed with those persons for whom you filed testimony on
7 behalf of the Rate Commission?
8 MS. STUMP: I am. Ms. Pam Lemoine.
9 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Please proceed.
10 (Witness sworn in.)
11 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Do any members of the Rate
12 Commission have questions for Ms. Lemoine at this time?
13 Ms. Myers, do you have any questions for Ms. Lemoine?
14 MS. MYERS: We do not.
15 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Mr. Neuschafer, do you have
16 questions for Ms. Lemoine?
17 MR. NEUSCHAFER: I do.
18 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Please come forward.
19 * * * * *
20 PAM LEMOINE,
21 being produced, sworn and examined, deposes and says:
22 EXAMINATION
23 QUESTIONS BY MR. NEUSCHAFER:
24 Q Good afternoon.
25 A Good afternoon.
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1 Q I assume you have your testimony, surrebuttal
2 testimony available in front of you?
3 A Yes.
4 Q Question four is about the proposed deferral
5 of $70 million a year spend for a couple of years, and you
6 state that, in your opinion, this shift is not a major
7 driver in the development of the revised financial plan.
8 Can you provide an explanation as to what that means?
9 A I can. In developing the financial plan for
10 the study period, the rates that have been proposed are not
11 discretely calculated for each year. It's really been
12 developed looking at the utility over the study period and
13 even into the following year that comes after this current
14 rate proposal period. In addition, the capital program is
15 not all cash funded, it's debt funded. So in debt
16 financing, capital improvement program, that's spreading
17 the cost of that capital program over a 30 year period of
18 time for all of that portion that is debt funded. So when
19 you shift out costs from '23 and '24 into '25 and '26, as I
20 was evaluating it, it does allow some downward movement of
21 the rates, but not in a material way.
22 Q What would you consider a material way?
23 A Well, the rates that have been proposed are,
24 let's see, 2.5 percent. And again, I'm talking revenue
25 increase at this point, not individual rate components.
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1 2.5 percent in '21 followed by 3, 3.75 percent increases.
2 Just in my analysis, looking at moving $70 million a year
3 from '23 and '24 into '25 and '26, and it's never in a
4 perfect alignment, but trying my best to emulate roughly
5 the same level of liquidity based cash, debt service
6 coverage so I could isolate just the impact of that one
7 change and not introduce a lot of changes. I was looking
8 at more around maybe 3.4 to 3.5 percent per year increases
9 in those years instead of 3.75 percent.
10 Q On question five, when you talk about minimum
11 debt service coverage ratios and the PAYGO capital
12 financing of 30 percent, and you state that the shift to a
13 1.6 X minimum in DSC places MSD of risk of a rating
14 downgrade. What's the basis for this conclusion?
15 A The basis for that is my review of what the
16 rating agencies reported in their rating documents. Fitch,
17 in particular, I think Mr. Snoke may have quoted it
18 earlier, and I think it's in Mr. Gorman's surrebuttal
19 testimony as well. Let me find the exact quote so I don't
20 misrepresent it.
21 In the Fitch report on MSD's rating, which is
22 Exhibit MSD 40, they state, "Any deterioration in financial
23 performance beyond projected levels would be expected to
24 result in a negative rating action." So that seemed pretty
25 straightforward to me, and they were referencing what was
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1 currently being projected at the time, which was well in
2 excess of 1.6 times.
3 Q You did go on in your answer to say that the
4 actuals produced by Mr. Gorman's proposal put us at 1.76 at
5 the end of 2024 as compared to MSD's owns proposal of 1.81;
6 is that right?
7 A That's correct. That was the model that he
8 had presented or discussed in the rebuttal testimony.
9 Q And you characterize those as not materially
10 different?
11 A Correct.
12 Q So MSD's actuals are going to be sufficient to
13 maintain the credit rating, and Mr. Gorman's actuals are
14 not materially different. How do Mr. Gorman's -- How does
15 Mr. Gorman's proposal put us at risk of a credit downgrade?
16 A At 1.76, that is true, that would not. I was
17 referencing the 1.6 target that he was ideally looking for
18 that he thought was reasonable.
19 Q But not the actuals --
20 A Correct.
21 Q -- that were used?
22 A Yes.
23 MR. NEUSCHAFER: Okay. That's all I've got
24 right now. Thank you.
25 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Neuschafer.
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1 Do any members of the Rate Commission have further
2 questions for Ms. Lemoine? Hearing none, Ms. Stump, do you
3 have additional witnesses?
4 MS. STUMP: May I ask Ms. Lemoine a couple of
5 questions?
6 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Yes, you may. The Chair
7 begs your pardon for skipping over you.
8 EXAMINATION
9 QUESTIONS BY MS. STUMP:
10 Q Pam, I just want to clarify a couple of
11 things. One thing that I am confused with after listening
12 to both the District and Mr. Gorman is the whole subject of
13 depreciation and that discussion. Could you clarify your
14 views on that?
15 A Sure. Yes. I don't want to speak for
16 Mr. Beckley, but in listening to his testimony and
17 reviewing the cost of service study and the model, the
18 discussion with the topic of depreciation came up. I
19 believe he was referencing it with regard to the change in
20 the book to fixed assets for MSD now versus four years ago.
21 So if we go back to how rates are set, how a cost of
22 service analysis is done, you know, the first step of it is
23 the financial planning piece of it so you identify what
24 your costs are that you need to recover through rates, but
25 then you allocate capital-related costs and operating costs
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1 at a little bit of a different manner. Capital-related
2 costs are allocated based on an allocation of the fixed
3 assets in the system. And when we look at that, we look at
4 the net booked value.
5 So I believe when he was talking about the
6 change he was talking about assets that had been booked,
7 and then he commented that, you know, depreciation has
8 occurred on existing assets has also brought down those
9 fixed assets, so that's the limit of where that was.
10 This -- MSD's model is a cash based revenue requirement, so
11 there are no depreciation costs in there. I just wanted to
12 make sure that that was -- that there wasn't any confusion
13 on that.
14 Q Thank you. A couple other things. The other
15 thing that was a lot in surrebuttal testimony and you heard
16 a lot about today is the surcharges, and you heard
17 Mr. Beckley discuss his opinion as to your previous
18 testimony on an across-the-board approach would be
19 preferable. I just wanted to give you the opportunity if
20 you had anything else you wanted to clarify or say about
21 the reasonableness of your approach versus his approach.
22 A Sure. The -- My testimony was recommending
23 more using across-the-board type basis, and the reason for
24 that is, as he had testified, that the rates are --
25 revenues are increasing and costs are being incurred, not
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1 only for operating-related costs, but capital-related costs
2 as well. And it is true that any assumption you make when
3 you are setting a single test year and then using some
4 other assumption for escalating rates in subsequent years,
5 you're never going to be perfect, but because looking at
6 the revenue requirements over this time period, there are
7 substantial capital investments being made, there are
8 investments being made on the wastewater side as well.
9 That was the reason why I recommended that we go with an
10 across-the-board type basis to avoid getting too out of
11 kilter.
12 Now, in this rate cycle, the difference
13 between the factors that have been put in the rate proposal
14 for O&M escalation for the surcharge rates is not
15 substantially different than what the across-the-board
16 increases are. I believe Mr. Beckley said that those
17 rates -- the across-the-board increase was higher than what
18 the operating expenses are. Let me make sure -- Let me
19 pause for a second. I want to make sure that we state what
20 the -- which direction it would go here. Since it's not my
21 model, it will take me a little bit longer to get to the
22 right table. It appears to me that in all of the years,
23 the O&M escalation is lower than the across-the-board
24 increase.
25 Q You already had a conversation with
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1 Mr. Neuschafer about the possibility of and the effect of
2 moving the projects out on a rate change proposal, which I
3 think you said was not significant. And also in your
4 testimony, I just want to clarify, on question six, you
5 talk about the MSD policy PAYGO financing, does that have a
6 significant impact on the rate change proposal, and you
7 indicated no.
8 A It does, and the reason is -- and there's been
9 testimony here today to that effect -- that is not driving
10 the financial plan at this point in time, that service
11 coverage is. So the PAYGO split is more of an outcome than
12 it is an input.
13 Q And finally, I just -- after hearing the
14 surrebuttal from all the witnesses today, I just -- is
15 there anything else that you would like to comment on or
16 explain for the Rate Commissioner?
17 A Yeah. I guess the only other piece that I
18 wanted to touch on, Mr. Goss, was related to some of your
19 questions. Just to clarify, you know, we've been -- a lot
20 of percentages that get kind of interchanged, I think, as
21 we talk about things. It gets really complicated. But the
22 59 percent -- percentage for I&I, that's not an allocation
23 factor as far as between customer and volume, that's the --
24 that's the percentage of total flow at the plant that is --
25 that is I&I or -- it's not the bill revenue, so it's the
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1 difference between the total plant flow and the bill flow.
2 That's what the 59 percent is, and then it's that
3 59 percent that has to get allocated to the customer volume
4 component. And that's the piece that's been discussed
5 quite a lot.
6 So that 59 percent changes each year depending
7 on, you know, what's happening within the system. So as
8 the consent decree program moves forward, overflows are
9 captured, you would expect that percentage to go up. But
10 at the same time, there's a lot of work being done to
11 tighten up the system and so forth, which would remove some
12 of the flow, so that percentage will -- does change over
13 the course of the consent decree program.
14 MS. STUMP: I have no more questions.
15 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Ms. Stump.
16 Mr. Goss, any questions?
17 EXAMINATION
18 QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONER GOSS:
19 Q I did understand it that way. So if you use a
20 45 percent number, which one of these alternatives looked
21 at, or use a 33 percent number, it's just changing the
22 dollar amount that you're allocating between volume and the
23 system; correct? I mean, just -- it's like the difference
24 between -- I've got $100 across that I've got to allocate
25 versus a thousand or something like that and I'm unclear as
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1 to the actual numbers as opposed to the percentages.
2 A So the total flow would be the same, it's just
3 which component, whether it's customer or volume that it
4 goes to. The CDM report, I did review it. Probably Laura
5 reviewed it a lot more in-depth than I did, but it appears
6 as though that report also is being used for an evaluation
7 of a potential impervious area base charge, so there are a
8 lot of -- a lot of the scenarios incorporated that as well.
9 And then as Mr. Stannard said earlier, it appears as though
10 the output of that model or of that report was then used in
11 the 2007 rate proposal to determine that
12 40 percent/60 percent split; however, some of the pages are
13 missing in the exhibit, so we don't really have those
14 conclusions that kind of came out of this, we just have the
15 scenarios.
16 Q Right. There was a sensitivity analysis.
17 They put in zero percent, they put in a hundred percent,
18 they put in the 37 and 66, which was where -- which is
19 where MSD for 37/63, that's where they were before they
20 adjusted for that rate. And they just ran all of these
21 different models based on 33 percent I&I and 45 percent
22 I&I. Those are two different models they ran as opposed to
23 59 percent I&I. So what I'm trying to figure out is, that
24 much, does that make a difference in terms of our
25 evaluation of a fair and reasonable rate, which is our
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1 task. That's what we are supposed to be doing.
2 A I think I see what you're saying, and, no, it
3 really doesn't because the 59 percent is the total that
4 you're trying to allocate. So the discussion of what's
5 fair and reasonable is how that then gets split between
6 customer and volume, which then flows into how rates are
7 designed. So whether that number is 59 percent or
8 65 percent or 40 percent, that doesn't have an impact
9 necessarily on how you allocate that between customer and
10 volume. The distinction would be, as has been discussed
11 today, changes in the -- fundamental changes in the system
12 that have impacted that number would drive it, but not the
13 number itself.
14 Q Okay. And so if we have those changes in the
15 system, then presumably this 33 percent number changes to
16 something else, so it would reflect the actual, which might
17 be 59, might be 45; right?
18 A Changes in the system would have an impact on
19 the amount of I&I in the system; correct.
20 Q Which is created as a number, it's an absolute
21 number that we are allocating between volume and customers?
22 A Right, and that allocation between volume and
23 customers would be -- would be determined -- it would be
24 determined by looking at, what are the sources of the I&I,
25 where is it coming from, is it coming from the private side
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1 and is the program -- consent decree program project
2 addressing that affecting that piece of it, more or less,
3 than the other piece, and that's what would lead to that
4 split.
5 Q So that's the reason you would be doing the
6 study was to try to figure out what is driving this problem
7 from volume versus --
8 A Correct.
9 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: We, in essence, have two
10 sets of numbers, the first set being a percentage of I&I,
11 the second set being the sources of that percent?
12 A Right. Correct.
13 Q (By Commissioner Goss) Right. And so if it's
14 going to be studied, the reason they went through the 2005
15 study was to try and figure out what's a reasonable way to
16 allocate that I&I based upon the condition of the system at
17 that point, and that would be why we would presumably do
18 that or MSD would do that now or at some point in the
19 future to figure out whether this 50/50 or 60/40 is really
20 fair?
21 A Correct.
22 Q And my sense -- Well, I don't know we know
23 today enough to be able to make that determination. I'm
24 kind of struggling with this because it seems to me like
25 it's really old, and it seems to me that MSD has done a
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1 great job of improving the system, a lot of work. And so
2 are we -- Do we have good data that we can make a
3 determination that's a fair and reasonable rate? That's
4 what I'm trying to get to.
5 A And I couldn't speak to what data is available
6 versus what would have to be collected in order to do that
7 kind of study that MSD is doing a lot of modeling in the
8 system, so the extent to which they have the data in place
9 to where then they could procure someone to do the analysis
10 or if that would have to be collected in order to do that,
11 I don't know. But you have to balance that out. The other
12 side that you need to balance also is, as we've talked a
13 lot about today, the customer impact. And you've got
14 different kinds of customers; right? And hence you want to
15 balance the impact so that you've got fair and reasonable
16 rates for everybody, and part of that is anytime you make a
17 change, to make a change in a meaningful way to mitigate
18 impacts over time.
19 So in my view, fair and reasonable rates
20 aren't necessarily always 100 percent cost of service
21 immediately and always, but also reflecting other concerns
22 that you have as far as, you know, rate shock on customers
23 or any other kind of impacts. And we see that a lot. A
24 lot of utilities may allocate I&I one way, but they might
25 not necessarily recover their costs in that way, so some
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1 utilities don't get to full cost of services with their
2 rates because they are addressing other concerns in
3 addition to cost of service.
4 Q If I heard the testimony right, if you don't
5 allocate that right, then the commercial side is
6 subsidizing the residential customers or vice versa; did I
7 get that right?
8 A That's correct.
9 Q I mean, either way they're recovering the
10 cost?
11 A That's correct.
12 Q The question is, who's paying for it?
13 A That's correct.
14 Q And so if I heard the testimony correctly
15 today, the difference in the rates between 50/50 and 60/40,
16 I think if I remember right, is like $3 a year -- per month
17 for the average residential customer; is that right?
18 A I believe that was in the range of what was in
19 the exhibit, yes.
20 Q Okay. So if you're worried about rate shock,
21 the question is, is that three or four bucks a month going
22 to cause rate shock as opposed to -- I guess that's part of
23 the question that we need to evaluate as well.
24 A So that was an example for residential
25 customer was six CCFs usage, but you would have to look
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1 also at the impact for, say, smaller volume customers, say
2 a retired elderly woman living alone because the cost is --
3 the way the rate structure is designed, that
4 customer-related I&I is in the service charge. And so that
5 fixed charge component becomes a very large portion of a
6 very low volume customer's bill, and so their impact would
7 be a much larger percentage impact on it then, as opposed
8 to a larger volume customer. Because if you increase the
9 service charge, you're decreasing the volume charge
10 because, again, you're recovering your costs, so that's
11 where the -- that's where the shift occurs between
12 residential and larger commercial because larger commercial
13 customers have larger volumes, so they will pay a larger
14 percentage of their bill through that volume charge
15 proportionately as compared to a residential customer.
16 Q We haven't seen any data to give us any
17 guidance in that regard. These residential classes, the
18 subclasses of residential people and the impact it would
19 have on them. We saw Mr. Gee's exhibit that was just kind
20 of blended across-the-board, but in terms of an evaluation,
21 what's the relevant costs. For your example --
22 A One CCF.
23 Q -- an elderly person living at home. I don't
24 really -- and how many people that's impacting. I don't
25 remember seeing that.
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1 A There are a few examples in the rate proposal
2 on page 5-1, table 5-1, so there are a few examples there.
3 Wait. Make sure I'm on the right page there. I believe
4 that's the right section. I want to make sure that I'm
5 not -- Yes, pages 5-1 and 5-2. 5-1 has the metered rate
6 comparison. So they've got a few examples for single
7 family residential, multi-family and non-residential.
8 Q Do those examples go through each subclass of
9 rate there? I don't think they do.
10 A Well, I guess I'm not sure what you mean by
11 subclass. It shows single family residential and then it
12 has a bill. For instance, line one is a 100 cubic foot per
13 month customer, line two has a 500 cubic foot per month
14 customer and so on. And this is obviously in dollars,
15 not -- it's not percentages, but as you look at -- And this
16 is just for the proposal. So what you don't have is a
17 similar table for Mr. Gorman's proposal, for instance, in
18 order to be able to compare the impact if you change that.
19 But that table is in the rate model, so it would get
20 produced. Under any scenario, one could go to that table
21 and pull that through.
22 MS. STUMP: Mr. Goss and the rest of the Rate
23 Commission, I would say, too, we're -- I'm sure Susan will
24 love to hear this -- but we're planning on submitting one
25 more discovery request, hopefully on Monday or Tuesday, and
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1 we could also -- so if that's what you want and that's what
2 you think would be helpful for, say, to have them run it
3 all for the 50/50 I&I or if you would like for us to
4 request Mr. Gorman to run something, I mean --
5 COMMISSIONER GOSS: Well, I do think it would
6 be helpful. I'm kind of struggling with this. I'm trying
7 to -- I want to be able to answer whether this is a fair
8 and reasonable rate, and I don't want any trouble by the
9 fact that, in my opinion what I've heard today, they don't
10 have good data or we are using 20-year-old data to reach
11 these conclusions, and that's bothersome to me, but -- and
12 so, yeah, I would like to know more so that we're able
13 to --
14 MS. STUMP: And it's easier to compare apples
15 to apples. I mean, it's difficult if we don't have the
16 actual numbers and the actual rate percentages. It's hard
17 to even compare what the different positions, what the
18 effect of them are.
19 Q (By Commissioner Goss) I've heard a couple of
20 times today that perhaps MSD has data that they could run
21 further analysis to help us in that regard. Obviously, if
22 we want to do that, that would be helpful. I just want to
23 be able to answer the question correctly.
24 A I want to manage expectations on that. When I
25 was indicating that they might have the data that would
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1 allow them to do that analysis, it would still take a lot
2 of time to actually do the analysis, but you wouldn't have
3 to -- if they have, for instance, flow meters in the right
4 places as part of their modeling to be calculating all of
5 this, then they're talking about a desktop analysis. If
6 they don't have the data necessary, then they would have to
7 perhaps put meters in certain areas, collect that data, and
8 that takes time before you can do the analysis. That's
9 what I meant.
10 Q Right. And I had that sense, and that's part
11 of why everybody has been hedging, saying it depends on the
12 cost of the study and is it reasonable or not. That's why
13 we have that kind of instruction in place. The more that
14 we can shed light on those issues I think, at least for me,
15 it would help me feel that I'm making a better decision
16 about what's fair and reasonable.
17 A We will add that to the discovery request.
18 We've got a few different items that we've identified.
19 COMMISSIONER GOSS: Thank you.
20 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: I have one question, Ms.
21 Lemoine.
22 EXAMINATION
23 QUESTIONS BY CHAIRMAN TOENJES:
24 Q Mr. Gorman raised the question about the model
25 that was provided by MSD, the rate model. Do you have that
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1 same experience with using that model?
2 A So the model is functional, and it works fine.
3 I think the issue is when the District's proposal is
4 utilizing an analysis of principal and interest payments on
5 new debt for the study period as well as deposits to the
6 construction fund and funds from premiums. So that was an
7 external PFM model, so those are inputs. In order to make
8 any changes to cash debt funding mixes, changes to the
9 overall annual spending in the CIRP, anything like that,
10 you can no longer use the PFM's numbers because you're
11 making changes to what those bonding requirements would be.
12 So you have to switch over to the model -- There's a toggle
13 where you can switch over to the model and then a model
14 automatically calculates it, but it has inputs for the
15 premium percentage, which was like 12.5 or 13 percent. So
16 if you just allow that to flow through versus making
17 adjustments, I don't know, you know, how that was
18 calculated or when it was calculated, but that really does
19 need to be updated; otherwise, as has been indicated, it
20 automatically calculates a significantly higher amount of
21 premiums than what PFM is projecting.
22 So that was the first thing I did was I looked
23 at making no changes to the model other than just switching
24 it to the model analysis versus PFM's numbers, and a
25 calculated premium was substantially higher than what PFM
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1 had calculated in their model. So you have to make an
2 adjustment to that premium percentage.
3 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Any further questions?
4 Thank you, Ms. Lemoine. I'm going to suggest a five-minute
5 break until 3:30 before we have our final witness.
6 (Whereupon, a short break was taken.)
7 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Ms. Stump, you have your
8 next witness here.
9 (Witness sworn in.)
10 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you. Do any members
11 of the Rate Commission have any questions for Ms. Young?
12 Ms. Myers, do you have any questions for Ms. Young?
13 MS. MYERS: I do not.
14 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Mr. Neuschafer, do you have
15 questions for Ms. Young?
16 MR. NEUSCHAFER: I do.
17 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Please come forward.
18 * * * * *
19 NICOLE YOUNG,
20 being produced, sworn and examined, deposes and says:
21 EXAMINATION
22 QUESTIONS BY MR. NEUSCHAFER:
23 Q Good afternoon. Do you have your surrebuttal
24 testimony available there? Okay. Let's look at
25 question four of your answer. This is about timing of
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1 projects during this cycle, and your conclusion was,
2 essentially there are four projects that you feel like may
3 be able to be moved; is that correct? It's on pages six
4 and seven.
5 A This was strictly looking at the additional
6 information that the District had provided upon consent --
7 THE REPORTER: I'm sorry. I'm having a hard
8 time hearing.
9 A So this was strictly based on the additional
10 exhibits that the District provided, but, yes, there were a
11 few projects we identified.
12 Q (By Mr. Neuschafer) You said additional
13 exhibits. Just to be clear, that's Exhibit MSD 78B?
14 A Yes.
15 Q Okay. So can you lead me through the analysis
16 that you did to determine these four projects could
17 potentially be adjusted as far as timing is concerned? And
18 for now, I'm just asking the high level. We don't need
19 each individual project.
20 A I was strictly looking at the commence
21 construction dates and the placement and service dates as
22 compared to the CIRP dates.
23 Q Okay. When you say as compared to the CIRP
24 dates, what do you mean by the CIRP dates?
25 A For fiscal years -- So for fiscal years '21
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1 through '24 as compared to the dates that were listed in
2 Exhibit 78B.
3 Q Okay. So then how did on -- how did you
4 determine that these four projects --
5 A Well, if we can, for instance -- Okay. So
6 12088, that particular project has commence construction in
7 2026 and a placement of service of 2028, so it appeared
8 that that could potentially be moved out; however, as I
9 explained, there may be other reasons why that particular
10 project is moved forward into the CIRP.
11 Q What other reasons?
12 A It could be attached to another project. For
13 phasing reasons, oftentimes there are reasons that you
14 would want to collect projects together.
15 Q And so the four that you identified, those
16 were based purely on commence construction and placement of
17 service outside fiscal years '21 to '24?
18 A That's correct.
19 Q Did you do any analysis of the deadlines
20 identified by MSD in the placement of service column?
21 A I did.
22 Q And more specifically to the accuracy of
23 those?
24 A I did not.
25 Q Okay. So you took MSD's word for it on the
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1 dates?
2 A I did, yes.
3 MR. NEUSCHAFER: Okay. That's all I've got.
4 Thank you.
5 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Thank you, Mr. Neuschafer.
6 Do any members of the commission have further questions for
7 Ms. Young? Ms. Stump, do you have further questions for
8 Ms. Young?
9 MS. STUMP: Yes. You know, Ms. Young drove
10 all the way from Florida last night through the night to be
11 here, so I'm going to ask her just one question.
12 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: We could make it worth her
13 while. She would appreciate more questions.
14 EXAMINATION
15 QUESTIONS BY MS. STUMP:
16 Q Nicole, you were able when you were in the
17 car, did you listen to Mr. Unverferth's -- one day -- One
18 day I'll get his name right.
19 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Mr. U.
20 Q (By Ms. Stump) Rich's testimony earlier today?
21 A Yes, I did.
22 Q And you know that there was -- There is a
23 disagreement in the testimony over whether there is -- the
24 MSD has any discretion to move projects into the latter --
25 in two more years more, '25 and '26. What is your opinion
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1 on that?
2 A It's difficult for me to comment on the
3 incinerator project. I have to take the District's
4 testimony on that particular project. For the consent
5 decree, I think those projects are scheduled in the consent
6 decree, and the remaining projects are somewhere on the
7 order of two to five percent, depending on which fiscal
8 year you look at. So I think ultimately at the end of
9 Mr. Gorman's testimony, he did say that if the District
10 could go and negotiate with the EPA on these projects, that
11 that would be something that they could look into. And I
12 think that, at the end of this, having heard the District's
13 testimony, where I end up on this. There's very little
14 room other than the incinerator project or the consent
15 decree projects to move the CIRP projects around, so it has
16 to be either the incinerator project or the consent decree
17 projects that would be moved.
18 MS. STUMP: Thank you. I have no further
19 questions.
20 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Anyone else have questions
21 for Ms. Young? We appreciate your dedication to the cause.
22 There's one other matter to come before the Commission
23 before we adjourn, and that is a report from Mr. Brockmann
24 on the public hearings.
25 MR. BROCKMANN: So we've had three public
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1 hearings thus far. All three, I think, were successful --
2 We've had three public hearings thus far, all three of
3 which I think were successful in their own right. We have
4 three more scheduled, one on June 27th, July 10th and then
5 the final one here on July 24th. Related to your table of
6 schedule, please let me know by Tuesday of next week if you
7 will be able -- if your name is on the list and you will
8 attend the June 27th or if your name is not on the list and
9 you're going to attend so we have enough spaces and
10 nametags available. That's it.
11 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Is there any other business
12 to come before the Rate Commission before we adjourn? Mr.
13 Palans?
14 COMMISSIONER PALANS: Mr. Chairman, if we
15 could just get a quick summation as to our future dates and
16 our next steps.
17 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: Ms. Stump.
18 MS. STUMP: I would be happy, except for my
19 microphone doesn't work. But we are -- Our next scheduled
20 event is on July 12th, which is the prehearing conference,
21 which is the time where each of the three parties will try
22 to narrow exactly what the issues are. And you'll get a
23 discussion of what each party's position is on those
24 issues, and you'll have the opportunity to ask questions to
25 the three attorneys. Also then, we will follow it with
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1 written prehearing conference reports, which are due on
2 July 19th, and then on July 29th we have the final -- I'm
3 sorry, July 24th we have the final public hearing where we
4 will submit everything into evidence, and then we proceed
5 with Rate Commission meetings starting on July 29th. But I
6 do believe, and back into discovery, we will be doing --
7 discovery responses take ten days, but we will be doing at
8 least one more discovery prior to next time. So if you
9 have anything or if you want to see what we're submitting
10 ahead of time to make sure your questions are included, I'm
11 happy to provide that; otherwise, we will plan on doing it
12 on Monday or Tuesday.
13 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: I would certainly recommend
14 that you provide that to the Rate Commission for time to
15 provide any final comments.
16 MS. STUMP: Okay. Perfect. Will do.
17 COMMISSIONER PALANS: Would we entertain a
18 motion to adjourn?
19 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: According to Robert's Rule,
20 a motion to adjourn is in order at any point during the
21 proceedings.
22 COMMISSIONER PALANS: I so move.
23 CHAIRMAN TOENJES: All in favor, signify by
24 saying aye.
25 ALL: Aye.
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142:24 143:8
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FY18 100:24
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FY24 99:1,9
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58:17 65:22
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104:6,13
109:13,22
112:21,21
121:17 128:1
141:5,7 151:18
167:12 168:4
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169:24 170:9
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13:16,19,22
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15:7,15,15,17
15:17,18 16:9,11
16:13,14,17,19
16:21 17:21,23
22:10,15 23:21
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30:4,14 31:8,11
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62:25 63:1,3
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116:3 117:25
118:7,15,17,19
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172:22 173:2
174:25 175:6
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117:3,18,19
118:5 119:25
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140:17,20
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77:24
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