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Home My WebLink About1999 11 08 Informational Item B COMMISSION AGENDA ITEM B CONSENT INFORMATIONAL X PUBLIC HEARING REGULAR November 8, 1999 Meeting MGR f,/ IDEPT /~ Authorization REQUEST: Utility Department Updating the City Commission on the Status of the Utility Rate and Efficiency Study PURPOSE: The purpose of this Board item is to update the City Commission on the progress of the Utility Rate and Efficiency Study. CONSIDERA TIONS: At the March 22, 1999 meeting, the City Commission authorized PRMG, Inc. to perform a Utility Rate and Efficiency Study as delineated in RFP-006-99-KL. The project is approximately 60% complete at this time. The critical area that we have been unable to provide requested data is consumption information by customer class. Specifically, PRMG has requested monthly reports detailing: (a) the number of active accounts by customer class (i.e. single family, multi-family and commercial) for all customer classes by meter size, (b) total water consumption and wastewater revenue gallons billed by customer class, and (c) number of sewer only customers by meter size or rate code. The previous utility billing software and the new utility billing software do not generate the reports in the format requested by PRMG. Subsequently, PRMG recommended the services of Technologies To Be, Inc. whom they have used for similar problems in other municipalities. TTBI has recently extracted the data from the utility November 8, 1999 Information Agenda Item B Page 2 billing system and are writing the necessary routines to provide the data in the requested format. The additional cost for this work is estimated at $4,000. The estimated completion date of the rate study for consideration by the City Commission is March 2000. MIS has been actively involved in the process so that the new software being considered this fiscal year has the capability to provide the necessary reports for future rate studies. FUNDING: The additional cost of $4,000 has been appropriated from the Utility Consulting Engineering line code. IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE: The anticipated project completion date is March 2000. ATTACHMENTS: None COMMISSION ACTION: None required.