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Residents urge NCIP to protect undergrounding credits, warn freezing funds could sink grant opportunities
Summary
Scores of residents pressed the committee not to defund or take matching funds from the citywide underground utilities program, saying doing so would likely forfeit $4.7 million in PG&E credits and reduce chances for matching grants and project momentum.
A string of public commenters at the Neighborhood and Community Improvement Program meeting urged committee members to preserve funding for undergrounding utilities and other safety projects, arguing that removing matching funds would jeopardize large leveraged grants and the city's place in PG&E's queue.
"If we lose this money, we won't have anything to back up the $4,700,000 that's from the PG&E credits," said Susie Grimes (speaker 6), who warned that losing the NCIP contribution would set the city back on undergrounding work she described as critical to public safety and resilience. Ray Myers of Monterey Underground (speaker 14) added…
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