Finance — 01/06/15 Page 8
MOTION BY ALDERMAN SIEGEL TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT AS
AMENDED TO MOTION LINK IN THE AMOUNT OF NOT-TO-EXCEED $57,070. SOURCE OF FUNDING IS
DEPARTMENT 160, ADMINISTRATION/ENGINEERING; PRIOR YEAR ESCROWS; OTHER PURCHASED
SERVICES
Alderman Deane
Is it possible to get a vehicle count?
Mayor Lozeau
It was in there for 130 so we can take a look at which vehicles would come out of that from snow operations. |
will make sure that | ask the director to do that.
MOTION CARRIED
MOTION BY ALDERMAN SIEGEL TO TAKE FROM THE TABLE THE COMMUNICATION REGARDING
THE CONTRACT AWARD FOR LED STREET LIGHTING
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Contract Award for LED Street Lighting Project Requested by Community Development
(Value: $2,000,000); Department: 181 Community Development; Fund: Bond
e Tabled 12/16/15
MOTION BY ALDERMAN SIEGEL TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND, CONTINGENT UPON BOARD OF
PUBLIC WORKS AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN APPROVAL, AWARD THE CONTRACT TO PHILLIPS IN
THE AMOUNT OF $2,000,000. SOURCE OF FUNDING IS DEPARTMENT 181, COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT, BOND FUNDING
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Moriarty
Is it possible to make these LED upgrades as the bulbs fail?
Mayor Lozeau
No it’s not because to get the economy of scale that we want to cover the cost as they are associated here, to
get the benefit as quickly as we’d like the proposal is to come in and replace them all. What we have now is
not as energy efficient as we could have. As you may recall, the money that we are going to save is going to
pay the bond and the electrical costs. We will actually spend less than we do currently which is about
$870,000 per year. If they come in and get this done in April you will be able to see that benefit in the fiscal 17
budget and | think that’s important. Nowhere in all the work that we’ve done since 2012 did they say you can
change them out one at a time. There’s also a safety factor. If you have some areas that have the halogen
ones and the LED ones it’s going to create a different lighting pattern for people that are driving and that’s not
safe. We've had a long discussion about the 3,000 versus 4,000 which we may or may not get into. |
understand changing them as they fail on a practical level seems to make sense but we’d be maintaining a
certain price with PSNH with the maintenance of all of the lights at the same time we are trying to change them
out so | think it would be very cost prohibitive.
Alderman Deane
| mentioned my concerns. We have ordinances in place and | don’t think we should be sole sourcing this stuff
out, | don’t think it’s appropriate. | think it should go out to bid. | received an e-mail today from a gentleman
