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As Mark mentioned
earlier, one of our key financial objectives is to provide reliable and sustainable
distributions to our unitholders. We pay regular monthly distributions to
our unitholders which approximate 75% of our distributable cash earnings.
After each quarter is completed, we declare a supplemental distribution to
reflect the actual distributable cash earned in the quarter.
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I
mentioned earlier that distributable cash earned in the 51/2 month period ended
December 31, 2001 was $11.2 million, or 86 cents per unit. Distributions to
unitholders in that same period, including the applicable supplemental distribution,
were $9 million, or 69 cents per unit. |
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In the first
quarter of 2002, distributable cash earned was $6.3 million, or 49 cents per
unit. Cash distributions paid in the first quarter totaled $5 million, or
38 cents per unit, including the first quarter supplemental distribution paid
on April 30, 2002.
Total distributions
per unit for the period from July 18, 2001 to March 31, including regular
monthly distributions and supplementary distributions totaled $1.07 per unit.
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Total
distributable cash earned in the same period was $17.5 million, or $1.35
per unit. Although our cash distributions exceeded IPO expectations, our
policy enabled us to effectively "bank" approximately $0.28 per unit, or
$3.5 million of distributable cash. |
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In April we announced
we were increasing our monthly distribution from 9 cents per unit to 10 cents
per unit effective with the April distribution.
As I said earlier,
we intend our monthly distribution to be approximately 75% of distributable
cash earned during the period. We believe that this 10 cents per unit monthly
rate accurately reflects our expected distributable cash earnings. We also
believe that we can meet this increased distribution rate and still retain
sufficient cash to support growth in the business.
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Thank
you. I will now hand the meeting back to Mark. |
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