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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Fresno metropolis councilman called retired PG&E Thursday, holding the institution liable for delaying the opening of a southeast Fresno clinic.
Councilmember Luis Chavez made that announcement alongside United Health Centers CEO Justin Preas.
They accidental the company’s newest session astatine 4340 E. Jensen Ave. could person opened successful September, but they inactive don’t person state oregon electricity.
“This is an contented that is excessively important. It's excessively critical,” Chavez said.
Chavez says the session volition beryllium a captious assets for southeast residents.
“We cognize that they have, you know, bosom disease, they person precocious humor pressure, they person diabetes, they person asthma, respiratory problems. And the champion mode that we tin service them is by opening up a wellness session close successful their community,” Chavez said.
The institution has already hired doctors, and Preas says he’s disquieted astir losing caller employees if the session does not unfastened soon.
He says they sent PG&E the contracts astir 19 months ago.
“As it looks close now, we can't adjacent springiness a completion day due to the fact that we don't person dates from PG&E connected erstwhile they tin bash their information of the enactment that needs to beryllium done,” Preas said.
PG&E spokesperson Jeff Smith says they conscionable request immoderate last permits from the metropolis to get the powerfulness on.
“We cognize that, you know, that the timeline has not been rather arsenic speedy arsenic immoderate would person hoped that it would be, but we truly are 95% of the mode there,” Smith said.
Despite accusations of them delaying the clinic’s expansive opening, Smith says the powerfulness institution is connected docket and ever planned connected completing their enactment successful October.
“We recognize that this is truly important to the community… So we privation to marque definite that we get there. I deliberation that they really were capable to implicit immoderate of the operation things up of schedule,” Smith said.
Preas confirmed the session was up of docket during Thursday morning’s property conference.
“We had planned to person our occupancy successful October of this twelvemonth and we are really up connected construction,” Preas said.
PG&E told Preas they volition implicit each 3 contracts wrong 7 to 10 concern days, but Preas says helium is acrophobic their operation process could instrumentality months.
Smith says the energy is already hooked up and helium expects state to beryllium connected soon after.
PG&E presently has a monopoly connected metropolis power, but Chavez warns that if determination are persisting delays, helium would see establishing a city-owned powerfulness institution instead.
