Finance Committee - 2/6/2019 Page 3
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Comprehensive Lighting Design and Electrical Plan for Downtown Riverfront (Value $100,000)
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
LUMEN STUDIO, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF $100,000. SOURCE OF FUNDING IS DEPARTMENT 181,
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; GENERAL OPERATING FUND
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Ms. Marchant is here, she is going to come forward and give you the background on this to the extent you
already don’t already know it.
Sarah Marchant, Director Community Development
Good evening, thank you all. | am Sarah Marchant, Director of Community Development. So this is a contract
to hire lighting professionals and electrical engineers to design a riverfront lighting plan for the riverfront from
say the Broad Street Parkway all the way down past the Main Street Bridge to the railroad bridge. So it is to
look at a comprehensive lighting plan for that area and it is to create a community public input process to
design this and then also full bid documents at the end. So it is something we can move to implementation
with.
Mayor Donchess
Now Alderman Harriot-Gathright has arrived and should be recorded as present. Could you give a little bit of
background on the Riverfront Master Plan and how this fits into that?
Ms. Marchant
Absolutely so the Riverfront Master Plan was a large community outreach that was completed in the fall/winter
of 2017 and some of the six big ideas and the biggest priorities out of that from the community were that they
wanted the Riverwalk to be better lit, to feel safer and to be more open. So this is a huge component of that to
understand full lighting design; many years ago the City invested into some solar lighting on the riverfront. As
many of you know, our solar lighting didn’t turn out so well and doesn’t really work. So this is to make sure that
we are putting in a fully electrified system and that it does not rely on solar and will work regardless of the gray
days or some of the tree cover in this area.
Some of the other priorities that the Mayor is also moving forward with is looking at cleaning up all the
invasives so that you can see the river which also will help the safety level. We should be coming to you with
something in the near future on that as well.
Mayor Donchess
Questions or comments for Ms. Marchant.
Alderman O’Brien
Would this be replicated again with the new bridge that goes over the canal there, are we going to look at
lighting possibly in that area as well too?
