ONCE AGAIN- PLEASE STAND

PRC Meeting Tomorrow at 9AM - PERA Bldg - 4TH Floor

Last week a few El Rancho community members attended a PRC Commissioners meeting in support of our Interveners, who requested that the PRC Commissioners hear the Jemez Coop/San Ildefonso Easement rate rider case directly. Usually the commissioners vote on a recommendation from a hearing examiner who hears the case and only presents his/her opinion.

The Commissioners voted 5-0 to listen to the community directly on why this rate recovery method has a negative impact on our community(s).

In a nut shell, Rate Rider (RR) 19 originally protected consumers by stating that the Government body who imposes a cost which increases electric rates, has to pass the cost to the people it governs. For example, a city franchise tax increase made by the city government has to be recovered and paid by city residents.

With Ohkay Owingeh, the PRC Commissioners altered Rate Rider 19 to give the pueblos exemption to this rule and include residents not governed by their government. This is why it is SO IMPORTANT for the Commissioners to hear the impact they made on the RR 19 alteration.

Tomorrow, May 7th at 9am, the lawyers from San Ildefonso, Ohkay Owingeh, and City of Espanola are all going in front of the PRC Commissioners to protest their decision to listen to YOU!
We need support! Not only from El Rancho residents but from our neighboring communities as well! This is just ONE of many easement issues and we need to come together and fight for a voice! Remember, San Ildefonso will be the location for the Aamodt water system and their government the primary controller of the Joint Powers Agreement Board that will regulate water rates.


No one has to speak, just be COUNTED! There is power in numbers.