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• CITY OF ARDEN HILLS MEMORANDUM DATE: September 6, 2000 TO: Operations & Finance Committee Members FROM: Dwayne Stafford, Public Works Director SUBJECT: County Road E Street Lights Background On July 7, 2000, during a brief thunderstorm, one of the City owned streetlights on County Road E blew down smashing the light fixture, but fortunately not causing any other damage. Upon inspection of the lightpole by City employees and a factory representative, it was clear that the pole and many of the others are rusting off at their base from de-icing chemicals and moisture. The concrete bases the poles sit on compound the problem because their tops are sitting below the finished grade of the surrounding area. Temporary Fix The City Council authorized staff to hire Boe Ornamental Iron of Lino Lakes, to fabricate • and install a reinforcing collar around the base of sixteen suspect lightpoles at a cost of $3100. Permanent Fix The Public Works Director has talked with Peoples Electric of St. Paul, a major outdoor lighting installer, and discussed ways to extend the existing concrete mounting bases to provide for a proper above ground mount, without removing the existing bases and wiring. We feel we have a solution for this that the Public Works Director will explain at the September Operations &Finance Committee Meeting. Operations & Finance Committee Project The City Council has agreed with the Public Works Director that we will ask the Operations &Finance Committee to research various designs of street lightpoles and fixtures. The committee will choose designs appropriate to replace the lighting on County Road E, and also a similar design, on a smaller scale, that could be used in residential areas in the future if so desired. It would be the charge of the Operations &Finance Committee to provide two or three acceptable designs to the City Planning Commission. The two committees/commissions would then make a final selection to recommend to the City Council. If approved the City would then contract out to have the existing street lightpoles and • fixtures on County Road E replaced in early 2001, in time for the City's Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration. Staff will help get the project moving by providing available catalogs.