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791 600 cubic feet of water usage will increase from about $11.29 to $12.55 per month or about $1.26 per month, and commercial customers using 25,000 cubic feet of water will experience a bill increase from $329.65 to $378.81 per month. The total revenue requirement of the Wastewater Utility portion for the test year is estimated to be $3,588,945.00. The residential wastewater billing units needs to be changed from the average winter water usage to 80% of each month's water consumption in order to provide revenue stability. Such method is commonly accepted in the rate making industry. The non - metered commercial and industrial wastewater customers should be billed at 100% of their monthly water usage. Analysis of monthly commercial and industrial water consumption shows little seasonal fluctuation which indicates that virtually all of the water is returned to the wastewater system on a year -round basis. Under the proposed rate structure, the wastewater rates of the average residential customer with 400 cubic feet of wastewater contribution will increase from about $9.99 to $12.86 per month or about $2.87 per month. Commercial customers with 25,000 cubic feet of flow will experience rate increase from $514.60 to $606.45 per month. The rate increases from industrial customers will vary from customer to customer because of surcharges built into the rate structure for wastewater of higher strength than the domestic wastewater. The combined water and wastewater monthly charge for the average residential customer will increase from $21.28 to $25.41 or an increase of about four dollars under the consultant recommended rates. The increase in the water and sewer rates is due primarily to increased debt service as well as other cost increases since the last rate study. Debt service has increased by 17.3% since the last study, and total budgeted sewer. costs have increased by 24.5 %. It should be noted that the increased debt service is due to the funding of mandatory improvements required by federal and state agencies. Operations and maintenance expenses are significantly impacted by TU Electric's 15% rate increase. Based upon our observations, the City staff exercised good management over those remaining activities and costs which are within its control. Dan Smith, 905 Wilburn, came forward stating that he: was in Jim's District, and was present to speak on behalf of himself as a resident, and also as a commercial customer. Mr. Smith said as a citizen he has had the opportunity to live in a great number of places, and his water bill in Paris is the highest that he as experienced. Until now it is the first time he has heard about the rate increase, or what the proposed rates were. As a commercial customer, Mr Smith said after hearing about this today, he did some checking, and through that his rate increase at Kimberly Clark will increase 53% and the implemental rate is scheduled to go up 41 %, and had heard thing as high on residential to 30 %. Mr. Smith said that to propose this sort of increase without talking to someone first, or to expect a commercial customer to sit back and think this is the adequate way to gain revenue without discussing any of these issues is not the correct way to go about trying to increase rates particularly 50 %. Mr. Smith said this would impact Kimberly -Clark about $120,000.00 over a year's time which is something that they did not have budgeted. Mr. Smith said he believed that part of the increase was done on a TU Electric rate increase of 15% projection, and if he was not mistaken, the increase of TU Electric was going to be in the neighborhood of 8 %, so to suggest