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Council directs staff to revise nonprofit electric discount funding, consider expanding eligibility
Summary
Council directed staff to change the funding source for the electric-utility Community Benefits Incentive Discount (CBID) from ratepayer charges to the utility's public-benefits fund and to revise eligibility so nonprofits serving low-income/disadvantaged populations can demonstrate qualification.
The Lodi City Council on Oct. 15 directed staff to pursue changing how the municipal electric utility funds a 30% community-benefit discount for certain nonprofit customers and to revise eligibility criteria to better reach nonprofits that serve low-income and disadvantaged communities.
Assistant Electric Utility Director Melissa Price told council the CBID, adopted in 1996, provides a 30% monthly discount to qualifying 501(c)(3) organizations that have been Community Development Block Grant…
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