The Board’s objective for this project is to receive full understanding of the interests of Small Users in the Rate Proceedings, enabling the Board to set appropriate Water Department rates for the City in a timely manner. Specifically, the Board seeks the following: o The gathering and presentation of information, including expert analysis and testimony to the extent appropriate, relevant to appropriate rates for Small Users, both absolutely and in relation to other classes of water, sewer and storm water customers. o Appropriate testing of the assumptions and evidence presented by the Water Department and other participants, from the perspective of Small Users. o Prompt, diligent, and cooperative work to enable the Board to promulgate appropriate final rate determinations of water, sewer, and stormwater rates and TAP riders within the Code’s deadline of one hundred twenty (120) days of the Water Department’s filing of a Final Notice.