During Tuesday morning’s meeting, the Brownwood City Council approved a Resolution denying the Oncor Electric Delivery Company’s Application to increase system-wide transmission and distribution rates by about $834 million. The Company asked the City to approve a 12.3% increase in residential rates and a 51% increase in street lighting rates. This time period has permitted the City, through its participation with the Steering Committee of Cities Served by Oncor, to determine that the proposed rate increase is unreasonable. Consistent with the recommendations of the experts engaged by the Steering Committee, Oncor’s request for a rate increase should be denied. The City received three Statements of Qualifications for engineering services including Freese & Nichols, The Estes Group, and Enprotec Hibbs & Todd.