{"id":491470,"date":"2010-03-30T20:06:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T00:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:ronkayela.com,2010:\/\/1.1018"},"modified":"2010-03-30T23:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T03:00:47","slug":"ecaf-one-time-rate-hike-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/491470","title":{"rendered":"ECAF: One-Time Rate Hike Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        After a lengthy debate focused on the DWP&#8217;s loss of public trust, the City Council voted 8-6 Tuesday to approve a one-time 4 percent increase in electricity rates equal to .5 cents per kilowatt\/hour and voted unanimously for a .1 cent increase per kw\/h for green energy and energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The vote represented a repudiation of DWP management, the DWP Commission and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa&#8217;s demand for a .8 cent per kw\/h perpetual increase as part of a 2.7 cent per kw\/h 12-month increase equal to an average of a 20 to percent hike. The mayor wanted .3 cents in a so-called lockbox for green energy.<\/p>\n<p>The DWP Board, after the vote, called a special meeting consider the Council&#8217;s recommendation at 4:30 p.m. at the DWP Headquarters downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"http:\/\/ourla.org\/\">http:\/\/ourla.org<\/a>, watch video of the votes on six separate motions and what they mean.<br \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><!--Session data--><input onclick=\"jsCall();\" id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lengthy debate focused on the DWP&#8217;s loss of public trust, the City Council voted 8-6 Tuesday to approve a one-time 4 percent increase in electricity rates equal to .5 cents per kilowatt\/hour and voted unanimously for a .1 cent increase per kw\/h for green energy and energy efficiency. The vote represented a repudiation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491470","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\/4290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}