Oregon utility cases live at the PUC, and the docket tool erred on October 3

City and county hearings do not set most electric, gas, or telephone rates. The Oregon Public Utility Commission does. Its about page, opened October 3, 2026, says the commission holds utilities to performance standards, reviews costs, risks, and performance so rates are just and reasonable, and supports choices that still have value for customers. Rules for proceedings are in Oregon Administrative Rules chapter 860. The commission’s internal operating guidelines explain how decisions are made. Read those before you describe a rate case. This brief does not name a docket, a utility, or a dollar figure.

A public docket address, apps.puc.state.or.us/edockets/docket.asp, returned an error page the same night and told the reader to email the site administrator if the error repeated. NEEDS VERIFY any case number until a working docket list is open. Do not invent a rate increase to fill the gap. A guessed puc.gov homepage path also 404’d. Use the about page that actually loaded, then the commission’s current docket link.

A utility bill on a kitchen table is not a county tax foreclosure. Packet 1’s foreclosure brief stays on the tax shelf. This brief stays on utilities.

Clean Water Services, drafted on the Washington County file in this packet, is a county service district with its own board. It is not the PUC. A PUC case and a CWS Tuesday can both be about water and still be different governments.

Official pages opened for this brief: https://www.oregon.gov/puc/about-us/Pages/default.aspx; https://apps.puc.state.or.us/edockets/docket.asp.