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HomeMy WebLinkAbout12597 RES - 04/02/1975MLM:jkh:hb:4 72/75 A RESOLUTION BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEAS: SECTION 1. The City Council hereby supplements its resolution relating to the establishment of a Public utilities Commission and endorses• the following: The Commission should: 1. Have authority to adopt uniform definitions of rate base and return thereon for all public utilities and develop statewide standards for determining legitimate expenses, net operating income, depreciation, and a reeson- able return on the rate base which is adequate to attract ample capital. 2. Be charged by law to use what is commonly referred to as the "original cost less depreciation" concept in determining the rate base. 3. Have a staff capable of analyzing every public utility to determine the fair value of the investment, the current return on that investment, and the effect on the rate of return of any proposed changes in utility rates. - 4. Provide safeguards in the procedure for selecting members of the Commission to insure proper utility rates, improve- ment of the quality of service, protection of the environ- ment, conservation of resources, and assurance of the continued financial health of the regulated utility. 5. Provide that members of the staff or of an independent agency be full -time consumer advocates whose only respon- sibility is to represent the interests of consumer. 6. Allow utility rates to be set by the municipality, with assistance by the State staff when requested. 7. Consider appeals from the findings of the Commission staff or a decision of a municipality. 12597 S. Regulate intrastate long distance telephone rates and utility rates in unincorporated areas and all utility services which are not regulated by any municipality. 9. Be regulated to insure that the Commissioners appointed be independent of the utilities they regulate and to provide adequate civil and criminal sanctions in the event any public utility Commissioner becomes improperly involved with regulated utilities. SECTION Z. The public importance of expressing the consensus of the City Council concerning establishment of a Public utilities Commission creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor, having declared such emergency and necessity to exist, having requested the suspension of the Charter rule and that this resolution take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO RESOLVED this the." day of April, 1975. ATTEST: Affe, City Secretary MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS APPROVED: DAY -OF APRIL, 1975: jVkd4 AC7MeI crry Corpus Christi, Texas o2 7­0( day of , 19 7S' TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspen- sion of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the City Council; I, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordi- nance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Jason Luby James T. Acuff Rev. Harold T. Branch Thomas V. Gonzales Ricardo Gonzalez Gabe Lozano, Sr. J. Howard Stark The above ordinance was passed by t Jason Lub, James T. Acuff Rev. Harold T. Branch Thomas V. Gonzales Ricardo Gonzalez Gabe Lozano, Sr. J. Howard stark :e: