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PUBLIC SERVICE - RATE DECREASE
ORDINANCE NO. 88-2744
AN ORDINANCE APPROVING A DECREASE IN THE RATES
WHICH MAY BE CHARGED BY SOUTHWESTERN PUBLIC SERVICE
COMPANY IN THE CITY OF PLAINVIEW, TEXAS; PROVIDING
FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE FOR SUCH RATES; AND PROVIDING
FOR EMERGENCY PASSAGE.
WHEREAS, on February 22, 1988, Southwestern Public Service
Company filed with the City of Plainview a request for a decrease
in rates to be charged within the City of Plainview; and
WHEREAS, the City of Plainview has received the Application
for such proposed rate decrease and has conducted an informal
public hearing thereon in accordance with Section 43(c) of the
Public Regulatory Act at which it considered the analysis of its
rate consultants, evidence from representatives of Southwestern
Public Service Company and comments from the public; and
WHEREAS, the City of Plainview finds that a decrease in rates
in the amount hereafter set forth should be approved;
NOW, THE~RFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the
City of Plainview, Texas:
SECTION 1: That a decrease in the rates, tariffs and charges
of Southwestern Public Service Company for electric power and
energy sold within the City of Plainview be approved in an amount
that as applied to the Texas retail system would decrease the
system-wide operating revenues for~ said company by $14,400,000,
based on annualized test year usage.
SECTION 2: Southwestern Public Service Company's Schedule of
Rates and Tariffs, as are hereby approved, are those under which
said Company shall be authorized to render electric service and to
collect charges frOm its customers in accordance therewith for the
sale of electric power and energy within the corporate limits of
the City of Plainview on and after March 28, 1988, and until such
time as said Rates and Tariffs might be changed, modified, amended
or withdrawn.
SECTION 3: That the action of the City Council of the City
of Plainview enacting this ordinance constitutes, on its effective
date, a final determination of rates for Southwestern Public
Service Company in accordance with Section 43 of the Public
Utility Regulatory Act.
SECTION 4: The necessity to effect this change in the
authorized rates at the earliest possible date so that a financial
return may begin creates an emergency and it is an imperative
public necessity that more than one reading thereof be, and the
same is hereby suspended; this ordinaDce shall be passed and take
effect from and after its passage as provided by law, and it is so
ordained.
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PASSED AND APPROVED, on first
day of March , 1988.
AT~I~EST:
CARLA REESE, City Secretary
and final r~din~ th~s 8th. ,
E.V. RIDLEHUBER, Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
DAVID BLACKBURN, Assistant City Attorney
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