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~~ ~~ ~ ~~ estion I would 1 be be 2 Ron Osbome "If I can make a brie ecaddress all newrinstallat ons initially, and uthen, mayd revisit 3 like to propose is that the Ordmanc 4 revisited in incremental steps to see, if, based on its efficacy, does it need to go bac an 5 retrofitting. ust as it 6 "The retrofitting issue is problematic from ne'serolcketbook nSomeone's I ght goes out and 7 et into someo P g that, g has been mentioned, it's going tog the wa now we're goin to have to up 9 then all of a sudden you inform them, `Oh, by Y~ re or whatever. It's going to be an increased cost. I t th nt o e p°~e I ftthink thatthe ould be 10 fixtu 11 to stop the bleeding based on the new installations. An randfathered or the existing installations would proba sl ht thindseButdwha we would desire 12 g 13 they do wear out. Eventually lightning strikes and thing 14 from Duke Power's standpoint is something thatddoescn I fashion.n undue burden on the 15 consumer and that can be done in an orderly an og 16 a enc or rivate 17 "You may have a situation: a is ItOnelld~i ht needs Ito beltreplaced uBecause it s replaced 1 g party that has a whole system of Ilgh 9 19 and does not match the rest of the system, it coul be looked at morencarefully than) justua the 20 illumination quality of-that system. So, It needs to 21 wholesale retrofit that gets triggered. I would likWe want to make sDurekthat we a`re mak ng the 22 good steward of the system that we have, and I live in 23 best decisions for the community beta a`d to the day th t AlamanceoCounty has some sort of 24 southern Alamance County, I look forty 25 ordinance, again, that is not reactive, but it is proactive. That is what I would hope that Orange 26 County pursues. 27 28 gamy Jacobs "May I ask Mr. Osborne a question? How much does it cost to install a shiel on 29 one of the sodium vapor street lights?° 30 31 Ron Osborne "When you say a shdiesd,~ tWih ch is'whatlyousee in most people' backyards. The 32 There's what's called a nemahea (p ) 33 bulb is in there vertically. And for yee rs effe rive. Duke Power ceased the practice of doing that 34 whatever. That's not proved to be v ry 35 about five years ago. There's probably some t al materi Ihwou~ld bet'but theocost of sending 36 Cost wise, I don't know what the cost of the ac 37 somebody out there and performing the wou're srobably looking at a1 minimum ofsomeone in 3 g somebody, which ultimately it would be, Y thetime ou assessed it, got the material, went out 39 the fifty to the one-hundred dollar range, by Y 40 there and did the work and did everything like that. 41 "Just to give you an example, we have a policy that if we rut it to another pole h sa'flat 42 out there and sending somebody to take the fixture off the pole, p 43 rate of $280.Or $268, excuse me. And so way s rhea !eThehworkforce that we have Ito utiti e~ 44 but that's kind of an average. So, it s not a y P 45 to be experts doing what they're doing, moving aso tts not always that cheap tter, but they've 46 got to be prepared for all kinds of contmgencle , 47 4g BarrY Jacobs "Thank you. I'd like to requ ne tof theaff ht had to request t notttheeperson whose 49 they would do that for nothing that the ow 9 50 house it's shining into. So, I would be very in?er b t that wn s the information that I got and that 51 maybe, I'm not using the correct term of arc ( },