Johnson Utilities Interim Manager Recommended by ACC Staff
SanTanValley.com
After four weeks of testimony in an evidentiary hearing and a deadline of May 25, 2018 set for closing briefs, the Arizona Corporation Commission staff filed their official recommendation regarding the appointment of an interim manager for Johnson Utilities – an interim manager should be appointed.
Citing staff’s filing, “Johnson Utilities has demonstrated a pattern and practice of furnishing its customers with unjust and unreasonable service despite having been given the opportunity to correct its system with appropriate maintenance, replacements, and upgrades. The Company has two decades of regulatory non-compliance, a demonstrated lack of candor with its regulating agencies, and an apparent unwillingness to accept responsibility for its historic and current problems. The evidence indicates, moreover, that the Company’s system is in a rapid state of decline as a result of rate-payer money being diverted from the Company to other unregulated entities that are either owned, directly or indirectly, by Mr. George Johnson, and/or members of his immediate family.”