During his 17 years as Public Works Director for the City of Vancouver, John Ostrowski was responsible for administering the Water/Sewer/Drainage Utilities. This included conducting annual rate reviews and eventual development and administration of a rate differential reduction at a time when the city had more outside city customers than in city customers. After annexation of most of the outside city customers the rate model was again revised to assimilate new inside customers without major rate increases using reserves to moderate annual rate adjustments.
As part of the Management Technical Assistance plan prepared for Washtucna a rate increase strategy was identified for the cityıs water and sewer utility. A PowerPoint presentation was prepared for the mayor and council to use in explaining the need for a rate increase to citizens.
The City Manager for the City of Ridgefield hired JOMC to assist the Council/Planning Commission committee that was studying the option of divestiture. To enable an apples to apples comparison, city utility expenditures were examined and rearranged to develop rate recommendations for comparison with outside proposals.