Cheney offers cost relief to utility bill

CHENEY – The city qualifies for $267,640.83 in assistance for active residential utility customers who are either low- or moderately low-income.

City Niemeier, Finance Director, presented this resolution to the city council during their council meeting on June 25. She said, “If qualified, some of our utility customers may get $200.”

Washington State Department of Commerce offered a Clean Energy Utility Assistance Grant Program. They have partnered with Promise to contact, qualify and award grant funding to the city’s customers.

According to Niemeier’s resolution to the council, customers can s...