{"id":701462,"date":"2010-03-25T22:33:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T02:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:ronkayela.com,2010:\/\/1.1013"},"modified":"2010-03-25T22:39:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T02:39:42","slug":"council-committee-casts-serious-doubt-on-dwp-rate-hike-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/701462","title":{"rendered":"Council Committee Casts Serious Doubt on DWP Rate Hike Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        With support only coming from environmental groups, the massive<br \/>\nlong-term rate hikes approved by the DWP Commission in an emergency<br \/>\nmeeting last week took a beating Thursday at a three-hour hearing of Jan<br \/>\n Perry&#8217;s Energy and Enviroment Committee.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/deb\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Relying heavily on testimony from the Council-hired PA Consulting and<br \/>\n sharp criticism from the business and activist communities, Perry<br \/>\nCommittee unanimous recommended instructing the Chief Legislative<br \/>\nAnalyst and City Administrative Officer to provide answers to a series<br \/>\nof concerns by Tuesday &#8212; a sign of the mistrust for the DWP&#8217;s<br \/>\nmanagement.<\/p>\n<p>The committee asked for a report on what is needed to provide minimum<br \/>\n financial stability for the city and DWP while protecting ratepayers<br \/>\nfrom rate hikes that could reach 34 percent for some customers within 12<br \/>\n months and rise sharply higher in the following years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ourla.org\/\">(READ FULL STORY AT OurLA.org)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With support only coming from environmental groups, the massive long-term rate hikes approved by the DWP Commission in an emergency meeting last week took a beating Thursday at a three-hour hearing of Jan Perry&#8217;s Energy and Enviroment Committee. Relying heavily on testimony from the Council-hired PA Consulting and sharp criticism from the business and activist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WtU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}