Final Report Revision

[James Kempf]

Team,
The Water WG report contained a recommendation about modifying the bill format that is similar to our Recommendation #5. Marn-Yee, Steve, and I agreed that we would put the billing recommendation into the Baseline report and the Water report would include the remaining items. So I edited the Baseline report and moved the billing items into the Baseline Recommendation #5. I've attached the revised report. Please take a look and let me know if there are problems. I need to know by Fri. so I can post the final copy to Steve Attinger.
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[Mark Gilkey]

Hi James,

 

I reviewed only the new Water recommendation because I assumed that recommendation was the only one that had changed. 

 

I have a few minor comments:

 

1) Trivial: The first 3 paragaphs could be compressed into 2.  There's a lot of redundancy, especially between the 1st and 3rd.

 

2) Minor: "Comparison helps people recognize abnormal usage due to water leaks or energy efficiency problems".  Did you really mean "energy efficiency" problems?  Aren't we talking about water here?

 

3) Minor: What does the abbreviation "MOC" mean?  This is used once and defined nowhere. 

 

4) Minor: "With both #3 and #4 above, there is a potential for users who are below average to increase their usage to the average level. "  I would have thought that this was ridiculous except that someone (in our Baseline committee??) said that there was actually evidence for this.  It might be worth adding 1 more sentence saying that this is something that has actually happened in the past. 

 

5) Using Boulder's bill format as a model makes sense.  It might make even more sense to work with other local cities to develop a common format, rather than have every city sooner or later invent their own.

 

 

All of these comments are minor; none are "showstoppers.

 

Thank you.

 

--mgilkey

[James Kempf]

Hi Mark,

 

Thanx for the comments, I'll edit them in prior to sending the final draft to SteveA.

 

Regarding the bill format, I don't think the intent is to exactly copy the Boulder format, but rather that the Boulder bill is an example of how to make a water bill more informative. I'll see if I can add some words to that effect.

 

          jak