two thousand and fourteen this merged and changed into the utility service of illinois all referred to as us are us i was twenty two water operating utilities in the state of illinois utilities unlike electric utilities are asked to tell these are very specific to the location and services that are provided the are not interconnected by other utilities for example in like holiday if there is a well now as part of the two thousand and fourteen consolidation the commission looked at it and said all right you can combine these utilities and make them into one system but they had a couple of conditions first of all they said as part of that consolidation what will happen is the rules and regulations concerning concerning these twenty two systems has to be consolidated into one however the rates their rates increase by one hundred ten percent the statewide request that the company had made was for a thirty six percent increase the illinois commerce commission conducted the study as part of the from its standard practices any decision must be  as i mentioned briefly there is a huge difference between the water utilities which have individual systems and electric and gas utilities which have for the most are state wide rates and that's because  different and i think that is shown in the in the case of the case of the city of chicago which we cite and i want to go through that was just a moment because i think that's helpful from the city of chicago case what you had  those on for example transmission facilities or generating facilities that's appropriate for statewide r customers some of them only have like three hundred customers any time to make an improvement in the system improvement for that killer system those costs are going to impact those customers and went with us sign said was four separate districts where rays are sat on a district level and with the most districts the rays are further set by when there are not the facilities use pump water or whether they purchase water so as a result of the fact that we have a pain one hundred ten percent rate increase when the facts show and the record gets undisputed that on a standalone basis that increase could have only been forty percent that we are being charged i'm just a reasonable rates and that because the commission ignored its own past practice of setting grades first of all public utilities act and therefore this court should reverse the decision one public utility with a uniform restructure and that company provides the water service to all customers in the former territories of the of the twenty three public utilities so one of this route is solid integrate structure of less than they otherwise would have received under the understandable basis and then finally the average customer in seven territories would receive a rate increases over the single rate structure greater that they would have received under to raise the question compels a commission to prove a rate design then as sure this late hour early customers only pay for the cost of facilities used to provide service to them and were also addressed like carly's contention that the commission failed to consider the adverse services to the residents of the city of chicago in the commission determined that says the benefits of that franchise fee were overwhelmingly provided to the city of chicago  that was the justification for having the ad features are usually the residence of city chicago our piece is different because the commission found that there are benefits of having a replaced or its plant is subject to substantial capital improvements for water quality purposes those investments are going to be spread across fifteen thousand customers not eat hundred and that's a substantial benefit to the customers of like holiday as it would be to any small utility to have their to maintain weight continuity and weight reach shock that would occur that mind the fact that really probably is not currently paying only the costs incurred to provide service because there are a number of back office functions and services such as billing reason i think they're all shortsighted in overlooking the fact that they are going to receive a benefit in the future when there are is a substantial capital investment required to maintain their services decorum and exacting the syllabi to customer class match up calls while the court recognizes commissions are probably taken could probably take into account other factors such as the affordability of rates the preservation customer in camelot which is entirely at for the seeing model water there are some customers whose rates are being reduced as a result of this consolidation by over a thousand dollars annually those customers  if we were not able to combine these with the total investment to serve the class of residential customers that we primarily serve i'll wrap up there and make myself differences second of all i would ask that you review the reactor cases well because the iraqis which they know mention us and says that you can have separate raids based upon the localized the way they did it before the increase is going to be forty percent