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Meet halfway, Avista

Thu., April 9, 2015

According to the March 22 article, Scott Morris, Avista chairman, chief executive officer and president, received quite a substantial raise between the years 2013 and 2014. I wonder how much higher it will be in 2015.

Maybe we can come to some kind of compromise. Why not halve the rate increase that is to come between persons who will have to foot the bill on the rate increase and Morris.

I understand that the infrastructure needs upgrading. However, what kind of management do we have at Avista that upgrading has to be done every single year?

If these rates keep going up, how many people will be left footing the energy assistance program because we will keep having a higher percentage of customers who will need to get assistance?

Carol Echtenkamp

Spokane

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