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DC Public Schools - DC WASA also provided lessons in Sewer Science to more than 400 District students in FY 2009. Sewer Science is an interactive mini-wastewater treatment plant model used to teach the processes involved in treating wastewater and how it is recycled back into area rivers. The lab is free of charge and all materials, including workbooks, are included. Over the last year, DC WASA delivered the Sewer Science program to School Without Walls, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Wilson High School, Young America Works Public Charter School, McKinley Tech, Gonzaga College High School and Anacostia High School. We also displayed the program at events like the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) Children's Water Festival, the DC Environmental Education Consortium Teacher's Night and the Nation's River Bass Tournament, the District Department of Environment (DDOE) Anacostia Environmental Education Fair and Living Classrooms of the National Capital Region event. For a Better Home - For a Better Community (Latino event) - At the second annual Hispanic outreach event, DC WASA provided information on water related issues, including water quality and water conservation to customers. Additionally, the event, which promoted green and healthy living, included a number of exhibits and District agency participation, promoted green and healthy living. More than 275 members of the community attended this event, hosted by DC WASA and the Mayor's Office on Latino Affairs (OLA) held at the All Souls Church in the Columbia Heights neighborhood. Twenty-four vendors participated and provided bilingual literature and personnel for the event. DC WASA developed fact sheets and other information in Spanish. Bread for the Soul - Employees along with family and friends, participated in the i h Annual Bread for the Soul campaign by donating hundreds of toys and books and $8,845 in cash donations. DC WASA employees and other volunteers also assembled and delivered food baskets to 85 families living with HIV/AIDS in the District of Columbia. One Fund - Each year, our employees continue to give generously to the DC One Fund, the District's charitable fundraiser that supports a range of non-profit organizations in the Washington, DC area. In FY 2009, our employees contributed $32,256 toward this worthy cause. 4 th Annual Nation's Triathlon - DC WASA sponsored this event providing tap water to thirsty athletes and volunteering at the aid station. To ensure a clean swim course, skimmer boat crews cleaned the Potomac River swim course throughout the weekend. Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Walk - In June 2009, approximately 175 DC WASA employees collaborated with the Susan G. Komen Foundation by participating in an annual 5K walk to support the fight against breast cancer. DC WASA raised approximately $3,979 in donations. AIDS Walk Washington - DC WASA supported the annual AIDS Walk Washington on October 4, 2008 by sending a team of walkers and raising donations for the fundraiser. The walk benefits HIV/AIDS services for the Whitman-Walker Clinic, which serves more than 8,000 clients per year. This is the sixth year that DC WASA has supported this event. Budget Overview and Performance II - 14

Boys Town of Washington, DC - During 2009, DC WASA summer college interns painted the family center interior, removed shrubs, provided landscaping and trash collection services. Also, for the fourth year in a row, a DC WASA staff member served as Santa for the children. Retail Rates and Fees - In 1997, shortly after DC WASA's creation, the Board eliminated all discounted and free service and adopted a 42 percent rate increase to compensate for ten years without any increase and the resulting lack of maintenance and investment in an aging and deteriorating water and sewer infrastructure. Since that time, there have been gradual increases in retail rates - ranging from 2.5 to 9.5 percent. This is a continued reflection of the Board's policy to keep rates reasonable and affordable in order to minimize the impact on retail customers. Additionally, since DC WASA does not make a profit, in years of better than expected performance, any excess revenues that are generated above the system need, are placed in a Rate Stabilization Fund (RSF) or are used to fund capital projects, both of which lower customer rate increases in the future. However, the RSF has been drawn down by approximately $25 million in both FY 2008 and 2009 and it is anticipated that additional draw downs will be made in FY 2010 leaving very little to underwrite rates in FY 2011. The use of the RSF in FY 2008 and 2009 reduced needed rate increases by approximately 9.5% and helped to avoid rate shock in those years. We have carefully reviewed our Ten-Year Financial Plan and near-term rate increases required to provide sufficient revenues to cover our capital program and resulting debt service costs over the same period. Our budget proposal includes use of $2.6 million from the RSF in FY 2011, a $0.77 per Cd combined retail water and sewer rate increase in FY 2011, following a 9.0 percent increase approved in FY 2010, an increase to the Customer Metering Fee of $1.85 per month and an increase to the lAC of $1.24 per monthly ERU. With these proposed changes in FY 2011, the monthly impact to the average residential customer will be $8.66; about the average cost of one lunch at a sandwich shop in downtown DC. DC WASA's proposed rate increases are primarily required to collect the revenues previously under collected due to the existence of a large rate stabilization fund, adjust for revised trends in consumption and to pay for increasing debt service costs, which will rise from approximately 24 percent of the FY 2010 budget to 26 percent of the FY 2011 operating expenses. These debt service costs finance the District's share of DC WASA's proposed $3.8 billion capital program, which is discussed in more detail later in this book. In addition to the proposed retail rate increases, we are proposing an approximate $0.06 per Cd increase in the PilOT fees alone to ensure that we fully recover the costs of this District of Columbia fee. This fee represents costs assessed by the District of Columbia since 1997 and rise in accordance with increases in the volumetric retail rates. Through FY 2009, DC WASA has paid over $153.1 million in the PilOT fee. The ten-year plan projects annual increases to the PilOT fees between $0.8 million to $1.9 million. DC WASA's current and proposed rates and fees remain very competitive with other water and wastewater providers 'in the mid- Atlantic and the eastern United States. In fact, the FY 2008 independent comprehensive budget review noted that DC WASA's recent rate increases have been much lower than other similar utilities. DC WASA's proposed monthly residential bill (including the lAC, Budget Overview and Performance II - 15

<strong>DC</strong> Public Schools - <strong>DC</strong> WASA also provided lessons in Sewer Science to more than 400 District students in <strong>FY</strong> 2009. Sewer<br />

Science is an interactive mini-wastewater treatment plant model used to teach the processes involved in treating wastewater <strong>and</strong><br />

how it is recycled back into area rivers. The lab is free of charge <strong>and</strong> all materials, including workbooks, are included. Over the last<br />

year, <strong>DC</strong> WASA delivered the Sewer Science program to School Without Walls, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Wilson High<br />

School, Young America Works Public Charter School, McKinley Tech, Gonzaga College High School <strong>and</strong> Anacostia High School.<br />

We also displayed the program at events like the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) Children's <strong>Water</strong> Festival, the<br />

<strong>DC</strong> Environmental Education Consortium Teacher's Night <strong>and</strong> the Nation's River Bass Tournament, the District Department of<br />

Environment (DDOE) Anacostia Environmental Education Fair <strong>and</strong> Living Classrooms of the National Capital Region event.<br />

For a Better Home - For a Better Community (Latino event) - At the second annual Hispanic outreach event, <strong>DC</strong> WASA<br />

provided information on water related issues, including water quality <strong>and</strong> water conservation to customers. Additionally, the event,<br />

which promoted green <strong>and</strong> healthy living, included a number of exhibits <strong>and</strong> District agency participation, promoted green <strong>and</strong><br />

healthy living. More than 275 members of the community attended this event, hosted by <strong>DC</strong> WASA <strong>and</strong> the Mayor's Office on Latino<br />

Affairs (OLA) held at the All Souls Church in the Columbia Heights neighborhood. Twenty-four vendors participated <strong>and</strong> provided<br />

bilingual literature <strong>and</strong> personnel for the event. <strong>DC</strong> WASA developed fact sheets <strong>and</strong> other information in Spanish.<br />

Bread for the Soul - Employees along with family <strong>and</strong> friends, participated in the i h Annual Bread for the Soul campaign by<br />

donating hundreds of toys <strong>and</strong> books <strong>and</strong> $8,845 in cash donations. <strong>DC</strong> WASA employees <strong>and</strong> other volunteers also assembled <strong>and</strong><br />

delivered food baskets to 85 families living with HIV/AIDS in the District of Columbia.<br />

One Fund - Each year, our employees continue to give generously to the <strong>DC</strong> One Fund, the District's charitable fundraiser that<br />

supports a range of non-profit organizations in the Washington, <strong>DC</strong> area. In <strong>FY</strong> 2009, our employees contributed $32,256 toward<br />

this worthy cause.<br />

4 th Annual Nation's Triathlon - <strong>DC</strong> WASA sponsored this event providing tap water to thirsty athletes <strong>and</strong> volunteering at the aid<br />

station. To ensure a clean swim course, skimmer boat crews cleaned the Potomac River swim course throughout the weekend.<br />

Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Walk - In June 2009, approximately <strong>17</strong>5 <strong>DC</strong> WASA employees collaborated with the Susan G.<br />

Komen Foundation by participating in an annual 5K walk to support the fight against breast cancer. <strong>DC</strong> WASA raised approximately<br />

$3,979 in donations.<br />

AIDS Walk Washington - <strong>DC</strong> WASA supported the annual AIDS Walk Washington on October 4, 2008 by sending a team of<br />

walkers <strong>and</strong> raising donations for the fundraiser. The walk benefits HIV/AIDS services for the Whitman-Walker Clinic, which serves<br />

more than 8,000 clients per year. This is the sixth year that <strong>DC</strong> WASA has supported this event.<br />

Budget Overview <strong>and</strong> Performance<br />

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