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<br />Ron Osborne "if i can make a brief comment on your question, as well. The suggestion I would
<br />like to propose is that the Ordinance address all new installations initially, and, then, maybe be
<br />revisited in incremental steps to see, if, based on its efficacy, does it need to go back and revisit
<br />retrofitting.
<br />`The retrofitting issue is problematic from several standpoints. Number one is, just as it
<br />has been mentioned, it's going to get into someone's pocketbook. Someone's light goes out and
<br />then all of a sudden you inform them, 'Oh, by the way, now we're going to have to up that,
<br />fixture or whatever. It's going to be an increased cost. I think the important thing to do would be
<br />to stop the bleeding based on the new installations. And, then, over time, 1 think that the
<br />grandfathered or the existing installations would probably be addressed, because eventuauy
<br />they do wear out. Eventually lightning strikes and things hit things. But what we would desire
<br />from Duke Power's standpoint is something that does not place an undue burden on the
<br />consumer and that can be done in an orderly and logical fashion.
<br />"You may have a situation, and it could be a municipality or a County agency or private
<br />party that has a whole system of lights. One light needs to be replaced. Because it's replaced
<br />and does not match the rest of the system, it could impact the, not only the esthetics but the
<br />illumination quality of that system. So, it needs to be looked at more carefully than just a
<br />wholesale retrofit that gets triggered. I would like to offer you that Duke Power wants to be a
<br />good steward of the system that we have, and we want to make sure that we are making the
<br />best decisions for the community because we live here, too. i look forward to the day, I live in
<br />southern Alamance County, i look forward to the day that Alamance County has some sort of
<br />ordinance, again, that is not reactive, but it is proactive. That is what i would hope that Orange
<br />County pursues.
<br />Bann Jacobs "May i ask Mr. Osborne a question? How much does it cost to install a shield on
<br />one of the sodium vapor street lights ?"
<br />Ron Osbome "When you say a shield, I think you're talking about the — there's two types.
<br />There's what's called a nemahead (sp ?) which is what you see in most people's backyards. The
<br />bulb is in there vertically. And for years, things were done like paint the sides of them, or
<br />whatever. That's not proved to be very effective. Duke Power ceased the practice of doing that
<br />about five years ago. There's probably some of them out there, but it's just not very effective.
<br />Cost wise, I don't know what the cost of the actual material would be, but the cost of sending
<br />somebody out there and performing the work, especially if that cost is not passed on to
<br />somebody, which ultimately it would be, you're probably looking at a minimum of someone in
<br />the fifty to the one - hundred dollar range, by the time you assessed it, got the material, went out
<br />there and did the work and did everything like that.
<br />"Just to give you an example, we have a policy that if we relocate a pole, which going
<br />out there and sending somebody to take the fixture off the pole, put it to another pole, is a flat
<br />rate of $280. Or $268, excuse me. And sometimes it's less than that and sometimes. it's more,
<br />but that's kind of an average. So, it's not always cheap. The workforce that we have to utilize
<br />to be experts doing what they're doing, moving a light is a relatively simple matter, but they've
<br />got to be prepared for all kinds of contirigencies, so it's not always that cheap."
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<br />Barry Jacobs "Thank you. I'd like to request that staff look into that Piedmont Electric said that
<br />they would do that for nothing that the owner of the light had to request it, not the person whose
<br />house it's shining into. So, I would be very interested in knowing if it's different by utility or,
<br />maybe, I'm not using the correct term of are ( ?), but that was the information that I got, and that
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