HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 24-010ORDINANCE NO. 24-010
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS, SUSPENDING THE RATES
PROPOSED BY TEXAS GAS SERVICE COMPANY'S ("TGS" OR "COMPANY") GAS
RELIABILITY INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM ("GRIP") FILING MADE WITH THE CITY
ON OR ABOUT FEBRUARY 9, 2024; FINDING THAT THE MEETING COMPLIES WITH
THE OPEN MEETINGS ACT; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED
TO THE SUBJECT, AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, on or about February 9, 2024, Texas Gas Service Company ("TGS" or
"Company") filed an Annual GRIP adjustment with the City of Beaumont ("City") to increase
gas rates in the Central/Gulf Service Area pursuant to Gas Utility Regulatory Act, TEX, UTIL.
CODE ("Gas Utility Regulatory Act") § 104.301; and,
WHEREAS, the Company proposed an effective elate for the proposed increase of April
9, 2024, unless the City suspends the date for a period no longer than forty-five (45) days; and,
WHEREAS, City has exclusive original jurisdiction over the rates, operations and
services of a gas utility in areas in the municipality pursuant to Gas Utility Regulatory Act §
103,001; and
WHEREAS, Gas Utility Regulatory Act § 104,301 requires a streamlined process for the
recovery of the costs of incremental investment by a gas utility; and,
WHEREAS, the City's review of TGS's GRIP filing is limited to a ministerial review of
the filing for compliance with the statute; and,
WHEREAS, the City finds the need to suspend the effective date of the Company's
proposed rate increase for forty-five (45) days beyond the Company's proposed effective date
until May 24, 2024, in order to review the Company's filing for compliance with Gas Utility
Regulatory Act § 104.301; and,
WHEREAS, the reasonableness of the Company's investment will be reviewed in a
future base rate case where all costs included in the Company's GRIP filing will be subject to
refiind.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS, THAT:
Section 1,
That the statement and findings set out in the preamble to this ordinance are hereby in all
things approved and adopted.
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The effective date of the Company's proposed GRIP rate increase, and the proposed
tariffs related thereto, is hereby suspended until May 24, 2024.
Section 3.
To the extent the City finds that the rates proposed by the Company's filing comply with
Gas Utility Regulatory Act § 104.301, then the rates will become effective by operation of law
on May 24, 2024.
Section 4.
The meeting at which the ordinance was approved was in all things conducted in strict
conipliance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 551.
Section 5.
This Ordinance shall become effective from and after its passage.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Beaun-iont this the 19th day of March,
2024.
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Tina Broussard, City Clerk
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Roy West -