The City Council was planning its own 8:45 p.m. meeting to respond to the DWP\u2019s decision. <\/p>\n
Councilwoman Jan Perry warned the DWP board that she was willing to reject a larger increase. She accused Raman Raj<\/span>, the DWP’s acting general manager, <\/span>of setting in motion \u201can Armageddon scenario\u2019\u2019 by threatening to withhold $73 million from the city\u2019s struggling budget. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d be more than comfortable voting no on the entire package," Perry said. \u201cMy environmental credentials are fine, so I\u2019m not worried about it.\u201d <\/p>\n [Updated, 9:25 p.m.:<\/strong>On a 13-0 vote Wednesday night, the City Council voted to veto the DWP board\u2019s latest rate hike proposal, sending it back to the utility for more work. <\/p>\n The vote came less than an hour after the board approved a larger increase.] <\/p>\n — David Zahniser at DWP headquarters<\/p>\n Photo: Councilman Paul Krekorian called the DWP board’s actions "outrageous." Credit: Allen J. Schaben\/Los Angeles Times.<\/em> Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa\u2019s appointees at the Department of Water and Power on Wednesday evening rejected the City Council\u2019s proposal for a 4.5% electric rate hike, opting for a larger increase that was more in line with the amount Villaraigosa had sought for his renewable energy proposal. \u00a0After taking a 45-minute break, the DWP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499454","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\/4566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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