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Committee forwards $58.7M appropriation for advanced water meters, seeks local-hire details
Summary
The committee endorsed forwarding a $58,747,600 supplemental appropriation for an Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) program to replace 180,000 water meters; PUC staff described benefits, financing, and workforce targets and pledged to report back on local‑hire and apprenticeship outcomes.
The Budget & Finance Committee voted June 3 to forward to the full Board a supplemental appropriation of $58,747,600 to fund the Public Utilities Commission's Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) project, which would replace or retrofit roughly 180,000 water meters.
Todd Reedstrom, assistant general manager and chief financial officer for the PUC, told the committee the AMI system would provide hourly customer usage data (projecting four reads per day), improve leak detection, increase meter accuracy, and yield monetary benefits over financing of roughly $80 million over a 10‑year period. "Costs about $140 per meter, including the electronic transmitter," he…
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