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Mr. Culver explained the idea was to hit those percentiles. The fiftieth and ninetieth <br />percentile. The fiftieth percentile happened to fall in between the two even bars <br />shown. He continued with the presentation. <br />Ms. Pietrick noted the 1.71 percent increase would be if there were no changes <br />made in the rate structure. If the City went with Ehlers Option One the overall <br />quarterly bill would go down 11.78 percent and Ehlers Option Two the overall <br />quarterly bill would go down 7.9 percent. <br />Vice Chair Huiett indicated she would like the Commission to make comments and <br />ask questions, then also a discussion about some of the pros and cons on Ehlers <br />Options One and Two and possibly give a recommendation to the City Council. <br />She also thought it was a good point about the bonding opportunity for the 2.5 <br />million and a really important aspect of this conversation and what it means overall <br />to have the City pay for things, which comes into play and there is a lot of positive <br />feedback around bonding and she shares those feelings as well. <br />Vice Chair Huiett opened the meeting for public comment. No one was in <br />attendance to comment. <br />Member Cicha wondered about the water use data that was used for this study. He <br />wondered when the data was taken from and has staff seen an increase in residential <br />household water use since COVID started and everyone has been working from <br />home. He wondered if that was taken into account. <br />Ms. Pietrick indicated Ehlers used actual usage data from June 2020 back twelve <br />months. There is a little bit of COVID impact. There definitely has been an <br />increase in residential use as people work from home. There also has been a <br />reduction in commercial but whenever a rate study is built they have to use actual <br />data and there was no way for staffto project what the COVID impact would look <br />like going forward. One of the things the rate study gives is best practices in the <br />rate setting and staff will also have Ehlers come back and re-evaluate if it is working <br />as anticipated and are any adjustments needed to be made. <br />Mr. Culver explained another thing to consider is a lot of the analysis the City is <br />using for the typical residential usage is looking at the winter quarter anyways. The <br />majority of the winter quarter was COVID free but still does reflect the typical <br />usage for residential. <br />Member Cicha indicated he did a little math and looked at his own water bill it <br />appears he will be saving money as a seven thousand to eleven -thousand -gallon <br />user in the low tier. This would be saving his household approximately thirty <br />dollars a quarter and from his calculations it seems like the user would need to be <br />using approximately twenty-three thousand gallons or more for the current rate <br />structure to be better. <br />Page 3 of 7 <br />