PSC to hold public hearing

Thursday, May 1, 2008

The Missouri Public Service Commission will hold a local public hearing in Dexter, Missouri on June 4, 2007, to receive customer comment in a sewer case filed by Stoddard County Sewer Company, Inc. (Stoddard County), R.D. Sewer Co., L.L.C. (R.D. Sewer) and the PSC staff. The joint applicants seek commission authority for the transfer of Stoddard County's assets to R.D. Sewer. The joint application also seeks an interim sewer rate increase. Residential customers currently pay $11.40 a month for sewer service. As part of this application, R.D. Sewer seeks interim rate relief which would increase that flat monthly sewer bill to $22.80.

The local public hearing will take place on June 4, 2008 at the Dexter High School Auditorium at 1101 W. Grant Street at 5 p.m. at which time the PSC Staff Information Session will begin, with the public hearing to begin at 5:30 p.m.

The local public hearing will be held from 5:30 pm until 9:00 pm or until all those wishing to testify have been given an opportunity to do so, whichever is sooner.

This local public hearing will be held in a building that meets accessibility standards required by the Americans with Disabilities Act. If a customer needs additional accommodations to participate in this hearing, please call the Public Service Commission's hotline at 1-800-392-4211 (voice) or Relay Missouri at 711 prior to the hearing.

Those wishing to comment or secure information may contact the Office of the Public Counsel, P.O. Box 2230, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-2230, telephone (866) 922-2959, email opcservice@ded.mo.gov or the Missouri Public Service Commission, P.O. Box 360, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102, telephone 800-392-4211, email pscinfo@psc.mo.gov Comments may also be registered in this case (SO-2008-0289) using the Public Service Commission's internet electronic filing and information system at https://www.efis.psc.mo.gov/mpsc/Comments.html

Formal evidentiary hearings are scheduled for July 1-2, 2008, in this case. Those hearings will be held in Room 310 of the Governor Office Building (200 Madison Street) in Jefferson City.

Stoddard County Sewer Company, Inc. serves approximately 172 sewer customers in the Ecology Acres and Western Heights subdivisions and Grant Apartments near Dexter, Missouri.

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Increasing by 100 percent??? The economy is in serious trouble. We all better get prepared for an economic squeeze. If you don't, you better start growing most of your own food and storing it. Creature comforts will soon be gone too...none of us will need our new snazzy flat screen TV's for the " Big Switch"..we won't be able to afford cable when they increase their already too high rate!

-- Posted by mizzou_mom on Thu, May 1, 2008, at 11:52 AM

Are they nuts??? That's what we pay for our whole water bill right now (if we only use 1 thousand gallons)! With the price we're paying for gas, and our grocery bills because of our wonderful ethanol, and now sewer increases? I understand everything increases eventually...but by 100%?!?!?!?! And you can bet, even though I pay a decent amount for rent, try not to go anywhere in my truck, and we eat so much chicken (because it's the cheapest thing to buy) that we're going to turn into one, that I'll still have to cut back something else...but now it's getting down to having nothing to cut back...

-- Posted by mrsdolphin on Thu, May 1, 2008, at 4:49 PM