{"id":450149,"date":"2010-03-19T18:27:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T22:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a9570203970b"},"modified":"2010-03-19T18:32:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T22:32:30","slug":"l-a-council-moves-to-review-electric-rate-hike-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/450149","title":{"rendered":"L.A. council moves to review electric rate hike plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Councilwoman Jan Perry. Credit: Bob Chamberlin \/ Los Angeles Times\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a95711b0970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a95711b0970b-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Councilwoman Jan Perry. Credit: Bob Chamberlin \/ Los Angeles Times\"><\/img><\/a> Seven members of the Los Angeles City Council moved Friday to conduct their own review of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa\u2019s latest plan to raise electric rates at the Department of Water and Power. <\/p>\n<p>One day after the DWP board approved the first of four increases planned for the coming year, Councilwoman Jan Perry introduced a motion asking her colleagues to take up the proposal.<br \/>\n Perry\u2019s request is scheduled to come up for a vote Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> Although Perry said she is keeping an open mind about the plan, Councilman Dennis Zine adopted a less nuanced stand.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cMy focus on it is very simple: I\u2019m voting no,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The DWP board, whose members are appointed by Villaraigosa, voted Thursday to add 0.8 cents to each kilowatt hour of energy consumed. The panel is expected to approve charging an extra 2.7 cents for each kilowatt hour by April 2011.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat money is needed, in part, to help Villaraigosa reach his goal of securing 20% of the utility\u2019s power from renewable sources by Dec. 31. Once all of the increases are in place, households are expected to pay an additional 8.8% to 28.4%, depending on where they live and how much power they use.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Businesses are expected to see increases of 21% to 22%, according to the DWP.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe council has the power to affirm the DWP\u2019s board decision or send it back to the five-member panel for more work.<\/p>\n<p>\nVillaraigosa\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But on Thursday, the mayor said he respected the council\u2019s right to review DWP proposals.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe almost always have been on the same page on the vast majority of issues, and I just look forward to what their good counsel brings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;David Zahniser and Phil Willon at Los Angeles City Hall <\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Councilwoman Jan Perry<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Credit: Bob Chamberlin \/ Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven members of the Los Angeles City Council moved Friday to conduct their own review of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa\u2019s latest plan to raise electric rates at the Department of Water and Power. One day after the DWP board approved the first of four increases planned for the coming year, Councilwoman Jan Perry introduced a motion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}