From: Kelly Parkinson, Purchasing Manager
Re: Riverfront Lighting Installation from Funding Source $407,781 in FY21 Escrow and $200,000 in TIFF funding
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND AWARD THE
RIVERFRONT LIGHTING INSTALLATION PROJECT TO GUARDIAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN THE
AMOUNT OF $607,781, INCLUDING $105,439 FOR THE COTTON TRANSFER BRIDGE AND $502,342
FOR THE NORTH SIDE OF THE RIVERFRONT WALK. FUNDING WILL BE THROUGH ACCOUNT 55699
OTHER CONTRACTED SERVICES, 81100 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND 53999 OTHER
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, BY ROLL CALL.
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Ms. Marchant?
Director Marchant
Good evening again, thank you so much. Very excited to bring you this piece of Riverfront Master Plan. So
this was one of the big things that was asked for from the 2017 Riverfront Master Plan was better lighting for
safety and also to interest people and get them to be able to feel comfortable and safe walking through our
Riverfront. And so we focused first on areas that are not going to be disturbed by the upcoming construction
and major modifications that are happening that Director Cummings is leading with VHV some of those design
studies.
So what is before you tonight is Riverfront Lighting for the north side from around the Greeley House over to
the Cotton Transfer Bridge and the Cotton Transfer Bridge. And the Cotton Transfer Bridge will be — already is
LED but it is a up enhancement lighting that should also help kind of pull your eye down the river from Main
Street. This is all designed to complement the fountains that are running and that have had such great
success with events such as the Kayakers, the Naked Kayakers events. So these are the kind of things that
we are very happy that the community asked for, that we are able to be bringing forward. Happy to answer any
questions you have.
Mayor Donchess
Alderwoman Klee?
Alderman Klee
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. | want to say how excited | am about this as well and Mr. Mayor | know that you
mentioned it at your Coffee with the Mayor yesterday. It is exciting to be able to see those bridges lit up. It’s
nice to see that we are using LED to save the overall cost and so on. Director Marchant, you mentioned the
bridge, the Cotton Mill Bridge and so on so that we don’t disturb the other side where work is being done and
so on. But the eventual plan will be to expand the lighting on all sides of the Main Street Bridge, is that correct.
Director Marchant
That is correct yes and both the north and southside. The design that the City had commissioned last summer
and was completed which we got quite a bit of community feedback on was to design the lighting as a
comprehensive plan. We are only implementing a piece of that plan but that plan has been designed, it’s being
worked into all of the on-going design work that is happening. As the rest of these areas get built out, the
lighting will be incorporated into those as well.
Alderman Klee
