Again, I must commend Ms. Powell for her efforts to put the Thursday night meeting together. It was very, very informative because of the information that while it might be called more Historical than rate increase oriented showed the vast knowledge of what has occurred many Mayors/ Councils past.
I had to chuckle at the story about the Mayor who used to fill up his personal vehicle gas tank at the City pump about 11:00 P.M. on a Sunday night. This with the expectation that no one would see him doing it? Guess he was wrong?
As an aside, in the Vietnam years, I served in what was called a "Receiving Company". We got hundreds and hundreds of troops from the (Basic Combat Training), BCT posts who were sent to Fort Ord for their Advanced Individual Training (AIT. At Ford Ord, it was straight leg infantry. Fort Ord was also a BCT post and was where I also began my Military experience.
In any case, the Army still had either 6 or 7 Enlisted Personnel that were the last of the ones that had been able to sign up one time for Re-enlistment and never had to again. They were just plain forever troops. The one I met at Fort Ord in the Receiving Company was a Staff Sergeant E-6, and a First Cook for the Company. He served for about 4-5 more years and finally retired, still an E-6 First Cook..
He too had a "Sunday" habit, he would drive up to the Mess Hall at about 6:00 P.M. after the Dinner Meal was done and load up his station wagon with food. In those days it was unheard of to ever see anyone who worked in a Mess Hall in the Post Commissary (Store), for food.
He would load about 14-16 paper bags full of food and once he was done, the other cooks and any personnel on the good side of the cooks could get some food for themselves. Why Sunday, you ask? Simple the troops arriving for AIT were all expected to arrive by early Sunday to be processed and moved to their AIT Units in the Training Brigades. So whatever was left in the Mess Hall and it was as noted substantial would have been thrown out. I.e., meat, vegetables and so on. Just something the comment on the Mayor brought back to me.
Am going to have to go and re-read SB 234. I am not sure if I read it completely when it first as approved, but know I did not read completely when look for the requirements to escape PSC control.
Could be because of the 12 1/2% requirement and the resale of water to Claywood PSD that the rate increase need go to the PSC for approval? Was talking to someone else Thursday, who had decided to read it and that person was over whelmed at how hard it could be for a layman to read and follow it. I told him, welcome to Government writing at its worst. 'nuff said'.