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<br />6. <br /> <br />Develop a letter report summarizing the important issues <br />regarding rate design which have the most impact on the <br />City's purchased power costs. <br /> <br />Attend the remaining Rate Design Task Force meeting to <br />be scheduled in February in which the LCRA staff <br />proposal will be presented to the wholesale customers. <br /> <br />7. <br /> <br />8. <br /> <br />Analyze the preliminary impact of the proposed wholesale <br />rate on the purchased power bill of the City. <br /> <br />PHASE 2 - REVIEW OF LCRA RATE FILING AND IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL <br />ISSUES <br /> <br />After LCRA makes a rate filing, and upon the direction of the <br />City Manager of the City of San Marcos, A. C. Gonzalez, Saffer <br />Utility Consultants, Inc., will begin work in this phase. The <br />following tasks are to be performed for a maximum fee of Twenty-Five <br />Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00): <br /> <br />1. <br /> <br />Analyze the proposed wholesale rates and determine the <br />impact on City's purchased power costs. <br /> <br />Review rate filing to identify specific issues and <br />request additional information for quantification of the <br />potential value of these issues. Presently, these <br />issues would include the following: <br /> <br />2. <br /> <br />d. <br /> <br />g. <br /> <br />h. <br /> <br />a. <br /> <br />Analysis of the proposed loss factors used to <br />determine the respective transmission and <br />distribution rates. <br /> <br />b. <br /> <br />Treatment of the $18 million payment of <br />Bluebonnet and Pedernales which was made from <br />the General Improvements Funds. <br /> <br />c. <br /> <br />Treatment of the $27.5 million payment for the <br />Decker Settlement. <br /> <br />The timing of debt service <br />Fayette 3 and Cummings Creek. <br /> <br />payments <br /> <br />for <br /> <br />e. <br /> <br />The impact on revenue requirements associated <br />with the Interruptible Rate. <br /> <br />f. <br /> <br />Scrutiny of Production, Transmission, <br />Distribution, Customer Accounting, and <br />Administrative and General expenses. <br /> <br />Scrutiny of the revenue requirement for Debt <br />Service Coverage. <br /> <br />Analysis of Working Capital requirement. <br />