LONG-TERM RATES MANAGEMENT
Goal: Work to ensure rates that are sustainable, predictable, and as low as reasonable.
Green Sheet – Proposed FY18 CEB Overview
Green Sheet – March 2017 – Proposed FY18 CEB Overview
Green Sheet – Metropolitan Tunnel Redundancy
Metropolitan Tunnel Redundancy from a dollars perspective – in 7 minutes.
Green Sheet – FY17 Challenges and Priorities
From NPDES permits strategies, rates moving forward, and a new approach to system expansion, the September 2016 Green Sheet lays out the Advisory Board’s FY17 challenges and priorities.
Green Sheet – Proposed FY18 CEB Overview
This edition of the Green Sheet provides an overview of the MWRA’s proposed FY18 Current Expense Budget. Click the image below to learn:
• What the proposed MWRA wholesale rate increase is
• Current cost estimates for the cross-harbor cable project
• How much a new Deer Island NPDES permit might cost
Green Sheet – Metropolitan Tunnel Redundancy
In this edition of the Green Sheet, we look at the Metropolitan Tunnel Redundancy from a dollars perspective. Click below to learn:
• What is redundancy, and why is it important?
• How much will it cost?
• How much will my water bill go up?
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FY 2016 Q2 Goal
- Work with Authority staff to begin plans for mitigating variability in water assessment increases.
FY 2016 Activity
July 2015
- Initiated discussions with Authority regarding smoothing of proposed water rate revenue requirement assessments.
Prior Activity
March 2014
- Long-Term Rates Management Committee meets and agrees to recommend $10 million deposit into OPEB with the balance to be used for strategic rate relief in future years.
- MWRA Board of Directors selects three representatives and Executive Director for Long-Term Rates Management Committee.
January 2014
- Executive Committee selects two representatives and Executive Director for LTRMC.
December 2014
- Exec. Director added LTRM Committee member selection to Exec. agenda for January.
- AB Exec. Director asked MWRA Exec. Director for LTRMC meeting in February with goal for March vote.
- MWRA Exec. Director announced at BOD Meeting that LTRMC would be reconvened in early CY 2015.
November 2014
- Executive Director discussed reconvening LTRMC with MWRA Exec. Director and MWRA Director of Administration and Finance.
June 2014
- MWRA agreed with AB Recommendation for reconvening LTRM Committee.
Comments and Recommendations History
FY 2015 (printed May 2014)
- The Advisory Board recommends that the Long-Term Rates Management Committee be reconvened with updated membership according to the original makeup present on the committee, and that meetings begin in September 2014 (page 47; #7).
- The Advisory Board recommends the Authority further formalize these efforts by creating a working committee to consider the range of tools available to ensure a measured approach to meeting its rate revenue needs through 2022 (page 84; #20).