mr. sandler. commissioners, erik sandler c.f.o. of the p.u.c. and i'm here to present, with some colleagues, a number of items. set the stage on april 10th, you will have before you recommendations to make adjustments to water rates, sewer rage and water and sewer capacity charges. and in may, there will be a number of items before you related to miscellaneous fees and charges as well as rules and regulations regarding sewer service charge for parcels. what i wanted to do in this particular presentation, is to highlight for you some of the work that we've been doing and some of the items that you will be seeing in the next few meetings. so in terms of major topics, i'll talk about the rate study you've been hearing about over the past 18 months. provide background with some overview of the rate-setting process. some of the elements of the scope of the study and some of the highlights of the proposed changes to rates and charges. and then the second half of the presentation, it's going to be provided by simone hudson and john scarpula and really

mr. sandler said, would be p paying 50% more than they're y paying today. we don't expect inflation to hit that kind of rate. so i think the point is that you need to be thinking about other strategies in which to recover costs and spread the burden to all of the people who use the system. i would offer that, for example, in france they use a habitation tax where everybody in a residence of any kind, rented, owned, multi, single family pays a fee for that address to sustain a city services of the town or city for police, fire, infrastructu infrastructure. schools, government and so on. and this would spread the load of these costs across the entire population and give you much better vehicle for doing this. i would urge that you talk to the political leadership about looking at this as a way of making costs in this city more equitable by the people brown g browning. >> any other public comment? item 10. i will close public comment on 10. we' to go on public comment on 11. for item 11 i call like to. >> good afternoon commissioners. i like to submit a letter