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My name is Richard Lambert. I live 800 Brenner Ave in Roseville. I'm here tonight to ask the Council to support two recommendations I recently made at an Xcel rate increase hearing. I was prompted to testify due to the extremely poor reliability of their power system in our neighborhood. For the first 10 years after we built our home in 1984 we had a power outage once a year or maybe once every two years. By 1998,when I started to keep track,we were having 6 outages per year. In the intervening 13 years our neighborhood has averaged 3% outages per year with an average duration of 1 hour and 44 minutes, or about 6 hours per year. After complaining to Xcel (then NSP) for years, I asked Roseville officials to invite Xcel to a meeting at city hall in 2003 to discuss our neighborhood's miserable power outage history. The company's representatives provided reports showing the SAIDI value of all the feeders supplying Roseville for 2000 through 2002. SAIDI is an acronym that stands for System Average Interruption Duration Index. It's simply the total number of minutes of interruption suffered by all customers divided by the total number of customers on a given feeder. According to IEEE standard 1366-1998, the median value for SAIDI for North American utilities is approximately 90 minutes. The reports showed that the feeder supplying our part of Roseville had a SAIDI of 248 minutes,172 minutes, and 265 minutes for 2000, 2001, and 2002 respectively. Therefore, a significant portion of Roseville suffered outages that were 1.9 to 2.9 times longer than the median values. I am submitting copies of those reports along with a detailed report showing my neighborhood's outage history as part of my comments. On 4/19/2010 Xcel was invited again to city hall to discuss our neighborhoods continuing problems. At that meeting, Xcel was asked to provide the most recent copies of the feeder performance lists comparable to those provided for 2000 through 2002—they flatly refused to supply them to the city. I frankly don't know how much of the rate increase that Xcel is asking for should be granted, however, due to the lack of any measurable improvement in our neighborhood's power system reliability, I feel very strongly that whatever amount is granted should be subject to the following two reasonable conditions: 1. That they be obligated to supply the "Feeder Performance List," equal to those I've provided, to any city requesting it. 2. That they be obligated to publish a list of all of their feeders that have a SAIDI that exceeds the 90 minute median value for North American Utilities along with a budget to make the necessary upgrades to bring those SAIDI values down to the median value. I'm here to ask the Council to pass a resolution in support of my two conditions and send it to Judge Beverly Jones Heydinger in the office of administrative hearings. I understand that the deadline for public comments is in early June. I've attached her contact information. I am also asking the city to bring this issue up at the Suburban Rate Authority and the Minnesota League of Cities for the purpose of getting other cities to add their own resolutions of support. Thank you.