Saturday, April 18, 2015

Bureaucrats Won't Be Interested


...in this Cost Recovery System for water in the Greater Vernon Water system.

They won't be interested in fairness and equity, chiefly because it's never been important to them in the past (remember "private fire hydrant charges")?

So yet again a brilliant idea from the brilliant mind of Gyula Kiss:

"The major advantage of this proposed system that everybody pays the same rate and no customer is penalized nor subsidized."

Links are provided to my proposed Interactive Water Calculator and the description of it in PDF format. For comparison the Calculator used by staff is included in the Excel file. The current consumption volume is used by both. Note the domestic and ICI consumption below:

2011---> 6,359,000 cu. m.
2012---> 5,720,000 cu. m.
                        2013---> 5,697,000 cu. m.

I assume that the 2014 consumption was 5,781,648 cu. m., the value used by staff for the current calculations. If we change that value in the calculator to 5,600,000 cu. m. the unit cost will increase to $2.67 and all derivatives change accordingly."  G.Kiss

The link to the User Pay Cost Recovery System is:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B026jCQIgO9OYy1lMm54VjhLZ3c/view?usp=sharing


The calculator (interactive) in Excel is as follows:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B026jCQIgO9OMkwtWHBpUnBvQ2s/view?usp=sharing


"Bureaucrats are keen to eliminate user categories which, at the time, was a fair system because they had failed to separate agricultural (non chlorinated) water from domestic," says Kia.


But now they're not proceeding as they should with separation...AND eliminating the Commercial Non Potable Irrigation category.
Because that's what bureaucrats do!





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