{"id":1468,"date":"2012-02-01T02:58:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T02:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2012-02-01T02:58:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T02:58:50","slug":"loan-saved-wastewater-customers-from-rate-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/loan-saved-wastewater-customers-from-rate-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Loan saved wastewater customers from rate hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Moneth Deposa<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>An internal loan authorized by the Commonwealth Public Utilities Commission saved wastewater customers from a higher charge in their monthly bills.<\/p>\n<p>According to Commonwealth Utilities Corp. deputy executive director Alan Fletcher, among the issues that commissioner Viola Alepuyo approved Friday was the proposal to let CUC&#8217;s wastewater division borrow $2.85 million a year from CUC&#8217;s electric division.<\/p>\n<p>CUC chief financial officer Charles Warren said that the proposed increase in wastewater rates was primarily to pay for the power to run the wastewater pumps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe power division will now lend the wastewater division up to $2.85 million per year for expenses. Because of this loan, there was no need to increase the wastewater rates at this time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher said, however, that CUC will soon revisit the \u201crejected\u201d proposed wastewater rate hike for possible filing in the commission&#8217;s future meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher pointed out that what CUC&#8217;s power division will loan to the wastewater division is \u201cnot new money\u201d but part of CUC&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed $2.85 million, he said, will come from the new power bare rate revenue.<\/p>\n<p>In its original petition, CUC wanted a $40 increase in its wastewater rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moneth Deposa Reporter An internal loan authorized by the Commonwealth Public Utilities Commission saved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}