SRP spends millions of dollars on execs' education reimbursement program

Salt River Project is calling for a rate increase this month that would create an additional $110 million for the utility, but critics of the plan cite a program that has paid out millions of dollars to company executives to help with tuition to send their children to some of the country’s top universities. Those critics say the utility should not be using ratepayer dollars for such a perk.

Between 2009 and 2014, 77 SRP executives received a combined $2.6 million in tuition assistance to send their…