California Water Service Group (NYSE:CWT) Q1 2022 Earnings Conference Call April 28, 2022 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

David Healey - Vice President, Controller

Marty Kropelnicki - President and Chief Executive Officer

Tom Smegal - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Shannon Dean - Vice President, Customer Service and Chief Citizenship Officer

Conference Call Participants

Ben Kallo - Baird

Jonathan Reeder - Wells Fargo

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the California Water Service Group First Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Mr. David Healey, Vice President, Controller. Thank you. Please go ahead, sir.

David Healey

Thank you, Jeff. Welcome everyone to the 2022 first quarter earnings results call for California Water Service Group. With me today is Marty Kropelnicki, our President and CEO; Tom Smegal, our Vice President, Chief Financial Officer; and Shannon Dean, our Vice President of Customer Service and Chief Citizenship Officer.

Replay dial-in information for this call can be found in our first quarter earnings release, which was issued earlier today. The replay will be available until June 26, 2022. As a reminder, before we begin, the company has a slide deck to accompany the earnings call this quarter. The slide deck was furnished with an 8-K this morning and is also available at the company’s website at www.calwatergroup.com.

Before looking at this quarter’s results, we would like to take a few moments to cover forward-looking statements. During the course of the call, the company may make certain forward-looking statements. Because these statements deal with future events, they’re subject to various risks and uncertainties, and actual results could differ materially from the company’s current expectations. Because of this, the company strongly advises all current shareholders as well as interested parties to carefully read and understand the company’s disclosures on risks and uncertainties found in our Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, press releases and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

I am going to pass it over to Tom to begin.

Tom Smegal

Thank you, Dave. Good morning, everybody, from San Jose where we’re having a nice spring day in California, and we’ll talk about a number of things that are going on this year for us nationally and in California and some of the things that might affect us over the course of the year.