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. 10 ~~ 1 2 Ron Osborne "If I can make a brief comment II new installations init'ally, and UthenStmaybe be 3 (ike to propose is that the Ordinance address 4 revisited in incremental steps to see, if, based on its efficacy, does it need to go back and revisit ~ retrofitting. . 6 7 "The retrofitting issue is problematic frog ne'serolcketbook nSomeone's I'ght goes out and 8 has been mentioned, iYs going to get mto som p 9 then all of a sudden you inform them, '~cr~e sed ost~ I think the gmportant thing to dohwo~uld be 10 fixture or whatever. It s going to be an then, over time, I think that the 11 to stop the bleeding based on the new installations. And, 12 grandfathered or the existing installationskes alnd th na s ht thingseButdwhat we would desire 13 they do wear out. Eventually fightn~ng str 9 14 from Duke Power's standpoint is something that does not place an undue burden on the 15 consumer and that can be done in an orderly and logical fashion. 16 17 "You may have a situation, and it could be a municipality or a County agency or priva e l g party that has a whole system of lights. One light needs to be replaced. Because it's replaced 19 and does not match the rest of theSYosit needso be looked at morencarefully than' just a the 20 illumination quality of that system , 21 wholesale retrofit that gets triggered. I would like to offer you that Duke Power wants to be a 22 good steward of the system that we have, and we want to make sure that we are making the I live in 23 best decisions for the Comm I look forward t the day th t Alamance County has some sort of 24 southern Alamance County, 25 ordinance, again, that is not reactive, but it is proactive. That is what I would hope that Orange 26 County pursues. ' 27 28 Barry Jacobs "May I ask Mr. O`'bh s~ a question? How much does it cost to install a shiel on 29 one of the sodwm vapor stree g 30 31 Ron Osborne "When you say a shield,~l twin chos'whatlkou see in most people's backyards. The 32 There s what s called a nemahead (sp .) Y 33 bulb is in there vertically. And for years, things were done like paint the sides of them, or 34 whatever. That's not proved to be very effectve. Duke Power ceased the practice of doing that 35 about five years ago. There s probably some of them out there, but it's just not very effective. 36 Cost wise, I don't know what the cost of the actual material would be, but the cost of sending 37 somebody out there and performing the work, especially if that cost is not passed on to 38 somebody, which ultimately it would be, you're probably looking at a minimum of someone in 39 the fifty to the one-hundnd dollar range, by the time you assessed it, got the material, went out 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 relocate a pole, which going 42 out there and sending somebody to take the fixture off the pole, put it to another pole, is a flat 43 rate of $280.Or $268, excuse me. And sometimes it's less than that and sometimes it's more, 44 but that's kind of an average. So, it's not always cheap. The workforce that we have to utilize 45 to be experts doing what they're doing, moving a light is a relatively simple matter, but they've 46 got to be prepared for all kinds of contirigencies, so it's not always that cheap." 47 48 Barry Jacobs "Thank you. I'd like to request that staff look into that. Piedmont Electric said that 49 they would do that for nothing that the owner of the light had to request it, not the person whose 50 house it's shining into. So, I would be very interested in knowing 'rf it's different by utility or, 51 maybe, I'm not using the correct term of arc (?}, but that was the information that I got, and that