Speaker 4: Agenda Item five Resolution 31800. A resolution relating to Seattle Public Utilities establishing an ongoing customer review panel to maintain continuous stakeholder engagement as SPU implements a six year strategic business plan and conducts future plan updates. The committee recommends that resolution be adopted. Councilmember Herbold, Thank you. This resolution is following up on an amendment that we made during the Strategic Business Plan for Seattle Public Utilities last year and is a recommendation from the Customer Review Plan panel last year as well. The Customer Review Panel has argued that they would be able to deliver more value for their participation if they were empaneled as a permanent review panel. City Light also has a permanent review panel. Seattle Public Utilities met with the customer review panel to get their recommendations on this resolution, and those recommendations were incorporated prior to sending the legislation to council. The panel will have nine members, four appointed by the council and five by the mayor. Each term will be three years, except that the initial term of positions one through four shall be 27 months. In the initial term of positions, five through nine shall be 39 months. This is done in order to stagger the appointments. The customer review panel is expected to start meeting regularly in April and I think the value added to there being a permanent panel as opposed to a panel that we bring together whenever we want to look at updates to the strategic business plan and rates is that they they can actually serve a really important role in helping us implement the actions of the strategic business plan. And one of the things that I'm going to really count on their assistance on in 2018 is to implement one of the recommendations that we included in the strategic business plan, which is to begin to institute system system development charges so that the developers of housing are paying for the infrastructure costs associated with drainage and wastewater, rather than those costs being picked up as they are today by the general ratepayer. This is a real big driver of increased rate costs.
Speaker 0: Very good. Any further comments? Those in favor of adopting the resolution. Please vote i i those opposed vote no. The motion carries the resolutions dropped in chair was silent. Please read the next gen item.
A RESOLUTION relating to Seattle Public Utilities (SPU); establishing an ongoing Customer Review Panel to maintain continuous stakeholder engagement as SPU implements the six-year Strategic Business Plan (Plan) and conducts future Plan updates.