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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, May 09, 2011 Page 27 Councilmember Pust noted that she also lived on Mr. Lambert's street; and shared his concerns. Ms. Jurek offered to return to the City Council at a future meeting to provide an update once the data had been researched and analyzed. Dick Lambert, 800 Brenner Avenue As an engineer, Mr. Lambert expressed the unreliability of averages and how they could be misleading depending on how presented. Mr. Lambert reviewed his in- formation and average outages for his neighborhood; and his interpretation that the feeders needed to be updated. Mr. Lambert suggested that the requested rate increase by Xcel should allow additional funds to facilitate that needed work. Mr. Lambert noted that the PUC could require that underperforming equipment be corrected; and asked that the City's cover letter reinforce that request. In the pro- posed resolution, Mr. Lambert suggested striking language in line 35 to remove "timely" and "area-wide." Mr. Lambert opined that his request for reports for 2008-2010 should not provide problematic from a Homeland Security issue. Councilmember Pust questioned if a resolution from the City at this time wouldn't serve to confuse the issue and mix topics; and questioned why the resolution would be provided as part of a rate increase proceeding by Xcel that the City would not otherwise be involved in; and whether the resolution form the City would affect the rate increase. Mr. Schwartz referenced the e-mail from the Suburban Rate Authority's legal counsel; and their suggestion for moving down another avenue that would not be part of the rate case in front of the PUC and addressing customer concerns. Mr. Schwartz noted that this issue had received significant attention within Xcel Energy; and not adopting the resolution at this time would give them the benefit of the doubt that they would come through with the requested information; and recommended holding off on adopting the ordinance at this time. Mr. Lambert advised that he had been told that having the City endorse his testi- mony before the PUC would be very helpful and lend more emphasis. Mr. Lam- bert opined that it didn't seem to be an unreasonable time to make the request when Xcel was seeking more money; and that the PUC could make demands for reasonable information requests from its constituency. Additional discussion included whether to link the proposed resolution to the rate increase or whether a letter could accomplish the same goal provided Xcel Energy provided the information as requested. Ms. Jurek asked that Xcel be given adequate time to respond to Mr. Lambert's re- quest to update his data; without having to involve the City Council and a resolu- tion to the PUC.