Paul Nester
Management
Good morning. I am Paul Nester, President and CEO of RGC Resources. Welcome and thank you for joining us as we discuss RGC Resources’ Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2020 Annual Results. Joining me today are Randy Burton, our Chief Financial Officer and David Garcia, our Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, David help us with these slides and calls and we asked him to join us today. First, I would like to go over a few administrative items. We have muted all lines and ask that all participants remain muted. After the presentation is completed, we will take questions. The link to today’s presentation is available on the investor and financial information page of our website at www.rgcresources.com. Now, let’s begin our presentation. Slide 1 contains our forward looking statements disclaimer. This presentation does have forecasts and projections. As outlined on Slide 2, we will begin with a review of our operational and financial results for the fourth quarter and annual periods of fiscal 2020 followed by the outlook for fiscal 2021. As noted on Slide 3, our fiscal 2020 customer growth extended our annual trend of adding over 550 new customers per year since 2017 or approximately 2%. We expect this trend to continue into fiscal 2021. As represented on Slide 4, fourth quarter volumes exceeded the prior year quarter due to increased uses of certain large industrial customers and a cooler than normal September. As shown on Slide 5, fiscal 2020 total volumes delivered increased 5% compared to last year despite 5% overall warmer weather. The increase in commercial and industrial volumes offset the decreases in the farm classes. Moving on to Slide 6, our capital spending for fiscal 2020 was $22.9 million or $1 million ahead of the prior year. Through the SAVE infrastructure rider we invested approximately $10.3 million to continue modernizing our system, renewing just at 9 miles of main. As we have discussed over the years, the SAVE rider mechanism continues to allow us to make our distribution system safer and more reliable in an efficient manner regulatorily speaking. In September, the SEC approved our SAVE application for 2021. Additionally, in 2020, we invested almost $8 million in growth and expansion of our system, which included the completion of the Blue Ridge main extension project, which we have discussed on prior calls. Randy Burton, our CFO will now walk us through our earnings highlights. Randy?