HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 04 Acquisition of Pedestrian Level Lighting Fixtures AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY Meeting Date: 2/10/2014
Meeting Type: Work Session
Staff Contact/Dept.: Brian Barnett/DPW Staff Phone No: (541)726-3681
Estimated Time: 10 min.
S P R I N G F I E L D C I T Y C O U N C I L Council Goals: Promote and Enhance our Hometown Feel
while Focusing on Livability and Environmental Quality ITEM TITLE: ACQUISITION OF PEDESTRIAN LEVEL LIGHTING FIXTURES
ACTION REQUESTED:
Authorize staff to acquire a bulk quantity of pedestrian level light fixtures for the
Main Street Lighting Project and for other purposes.
ISSUE
STATEMENT:
Staff has discovered an opportunity to buy a bulk quantity of lighting fixtures to be
used in the Downtown Lighting Project and other City projects requiring such fixtures, at a substantial discount in cost.
ATTACHMENTS: Attachment 1 – Image of Lighting Fixture to be Purchased
Attachment 2 – Image of Current Light Fixtures
DISCUSSION/
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Council has directed staff to move forward on a program to provide pedestrian level
lighting in downtown. On November 25, 2013, Council directed staff to begin implementing a seven phase project which would, as funds became available,
provide new lighting and other new amenities to the downtown streets. A
significant portion of the cost of those projects, which all taken together total almost $5 million over a number of years, is the cost of the lighting fixtures. Staff
estimates that new fixtures alone will cost over $700,000.
Staff has learned that the City of San Diego is undertaking a complete renovation of its Gas Lamp district. As part of this renovation, they are removing and disposing
of thousands of light fixtures which are remarkably similar to those recently
installed on North A Street. The approved disposal contractor for the City of San Diego, WestCoast Light Recycling LLC, has agreed to sell those fixtures to the City
for $85 each, well under half the price of new fixtures on the market today. Staff estimates that for a total of about $315,000 the fixtures can be refit with LED lighting, recoated to black (they are currently blue) and prepared for installation on
poles. This compares with a cost of $781,550 for new fixtures, fully fitted. Neither of these costs include the purchase price of new poles.
Staff propose to buy 500 of these fixtures, at a total cost of $42,500. The fixtures
will be stored at a City site and held until the downtown light projects advance to the point of requiring them. Staff proposes to fund the purchase with $5,000 of Downtown SEDA funding and $37,500 in Street fund resources. If agreeable to the
Council, in the future SEDA would “buy” fixtures from the Street Fund as the lighting projects advance so that ultimately the costs of fixtures needed in
Downtown would be borne by urban renewal funds. This would also allow the City
to use some of the fixtures for replacement and installation in other areas of the City.
ATTACHMENT 1
Attachment 2