streetlight assessments and LED conversion
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C T one. Um that's me. Um I'm gonna vote for approval of this. I mean their their their life their lighting assessments are getting reduced because they're switching from regular lights to LED lights. My my only issue is it just caused a humongous uproar in that community. My office, um this is this is the Champions Club and Fox Hollow, got a lot of emails. And um I got blo I there was a lot of chatter on social media which
I don't read but I was hearing about it, that I must be the reason why all the lights were changed and um that it has to go through me. I knew nothing about it. But I I just wanna say in the future, I think we all learned a lesson. And what happened was they took out the very ornate street lights that were in Champions Club. You know, they're very proud of their scrolling metal gates and that whole look, very Italian and ornate, and they went to a much simpler light
post. and but they went to L an L E D light, which is gonna save them a lot of money. But the neighborhood didn't know about it and they were very upset about it. That so that's all I want to say. I don't know if you want to say anything, but
Uh Josh Wood, Public Infrastructure Fiscal and Business Administration Director. Um thank you, Commissioner, for your comments. Yeah, we totally agree. We we saw this as an opportunity um to just kind of revisit how we work directly with the electric companies and um just a slew of things, our audit process, how how we go about this. Um So we This
wasn't us, this was Duke, by the way.
Yeah, correct. It's Duke. This was Duke who's
right.
You know, just to clarify, you
know,
the county, the county has um, you know, this responsibility to manage the assessments. Uh and we do handle from time to time, Jerry Williams is our um our streetlight assessments manager here. Uh we do handle from time to time like issues directly. you know with with the communities um but we saw this one as an opportunity to kind of get in front of like when when the when the electric companies say hey we're gonna change out light posts this is an opportunity for us to step in front and say hey let's make
sure that the the community is aware so that that's what we took away from it.
Yep okay so with thank you with that I say move approval. Second
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