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Portland Clean Energy Fund advisory co-chairs urge protection of fund’s investment plan, voice concerns over proposed surcharge increase
Summary
Co-chairs of the Portland Clean Energy Fund community advisory committee told the city’s Climate Resilience and Land Use Committee on April 24 that the committee is wary of a proposed surcharge increase and urged that the fund’s five‑year climate investment plan and set‑aside for community grants be protected.
Portland Clean Energy Fund community advisory co-chairs Megan Horst and Ramfeese told the Climate Resilience and Land Use Committee on April 24 that the advisory body has serious reservations about a proposal to increase the PCEF surcharge and wants stronger guarantees that the fund’s climate investment plan and community grant priorities will be preserved.
Horst, a longtime PCEF advisory co-chair, said committee members see the fund as a unique, voter-approved tool to advance climate justice and resilience and urged council to “keep the climate investment plan intact and keep money that’s dedicated to PCEF towards PCEF.”
The co-chairs framed their remarks as a preliminary “temperature check.” They said the committee has not taken a vote on any surcharge proposal and that their comments reflected preliminary discussion and questions raised at a recent committee meeting. Horst said committee members repeatedly raised concerns that an increase in the surcharge could…
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