Addis Urges Full Funding Restoration for Diablo Canyon's Local Communities

SAN LUIS OBISPO - Assemblymember Dawn Addis (D-Morro Bay) shared the following public comment in a letter to the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors regarding today's meeting agenda to approve over $16 million in community impact funding from Pacific Gas & Electric Company:

November 3, 2026

Board of Supervisors (C/O Matthew Pontes, CEO)
San Luis Obispo, County of
1055 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408

Re: Agenda Item #31-Request to accept community impact funding from Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) related to the continued operation of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant

Dear Chair Paulding and Members of the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors:

As the Assemblymember representing California's 30th Assembly District, the only State Legislator living within one of the twelve evacuation/shelter-in-place zones surrounding Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP), and a former Morro Bay City Councilmember, I bring both personal and public service experience to this nuclear plant's continued operation. As a local resident and State Representative, I understand how decisions about DCPP intersect with the safety, welfare, and livelihoods of Central Coast communities and Californians statewide.

Since joining the legislature, I have worked to ensure that San Luis Obispo County residents and local public agencies have a meaningful voice in decision making regarding DCPP. A critical part of that responsibility is ensuring that Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) fulfills its commitment to the communities that host California's only operating nuclear power plant.

When the Legislature authorized DCPP's continued operation through SB 846 (Dodd, Chapter 239, Statutes of 2022), the community impact funding previously provided to affected local agencies was not restored. Despite continued operations through October 2029 and 2030, our communities were left without the funding they had relied upon to support essential public services.

In 2025, I introduced Assembly Bill (AB) 1391, which would have increased the amount of funding to basic aid school districts for Transitional Kindergarten, following the concerns from parents and the San Luis Coastal Unified School District about depreciating unitary tax. This year, I co-sponsored Senate Bill (SB) 931, which would reinstate the Community Impact Mitigation Program to fund local programs, including critical dollars to San Luis Coastal Unified School District. This formula was previously developed in SB 1090 (Monning, 2018).

The agreement reached with PG&E and San Luis Obispo County will fund a portion of two of the previously committed funding to public agencies that are eligible under the Community Impact Mitigation Fund. Even then, the Community Impact Mitigation Fund, as established under SB 1090 (Monning), only reflects a partial sum of the funding owed to community programs pre-devaluation of Diablo Canyon and the diminishing unitary tax. In fact, our community is not receiving our fair share of taxes based on continuing operations while PG&E has received approximately $2 billion in subsidies from taxpayers and ratepayers - leading to over a $40 million loss to school children alone and vital services like homelessness and mental health programs.

PG&E's agreement to pay a portion of two of the five years of the Essential Services Mitigation Fund is a step forward, but in no ways complete, move in supporting our local communities who bear the responsibility of hosting California's only operating nuclear power plant. This is critical for our students and the public agencies who serve the most vulnerable throughout San Luis Obispo County.

Even so, as the staff report establishes, this is not the full funding that is owed to the community. Our communities have a unique responsibility in hosting this facility. Their voices, needs, and long-term fiscal stability must remain central to every decision regarding its continued operation. I will continue to work with my colleagues in the Legislature, PG&E, the County, and our local partners to ensure our residents are heard, respected, and their needs are fully met this upcoming legislative session.

Thank you for your continued commitment to the people of San Luis Obispo County.

Sincerely,

DAWN ADDIS
Assemblymember, District 30

Dawn Addis was elected to the California State Assembly in 2022 to represent the coastal 30th Assembly District, which includes San Luis Obispo, Monterey, and Santa Cruz Counties. She is the Chair of the Assembly Budget Subcommittee 1 on Health.

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