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12/04/2017 11:00 PMA streetlight conversion project and funding for the Westbrook Visiting Nurses are two of the proposed action items on the Call of a Westbrook Town Meeting set for Monday, Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Mulvey Municipal Center.
The first item is a request for $74,800 for the town’s Nursing Department to pay for staffing and medical supplies.
Next are two capital maintenance project requests. First is an appropriation of $5,000 to pay for ADA improvements in the Town Hall parking lot to help those with disabilities park and gain access to Town Hall services. Second, is a request for $11,125 for repairs to the Mulvey Municipal Center roof; leaks now develop in the roof area over the Finance Department office during heavy rains.
The next three items, if approved, would allow the town to proceed with a project to convert the town’s streetlights to efficient LED lights.
The first action is on a request for $9,413 to go to the Ad Hoc Energy Committee to pay for an “audit of existing [streetlight] fixtures and reconciliation with Eversource records.” This audit would be conducted by Siemens, the town’s approved contractor and supports the proposed purchase by the town of its streetlights from Eversource.
The second proposed action is to approve a request for $180,398 for the Ad Hoc Energy Committee to buy the town’s existing streetlights from Eversource.
The final item is to appropriate $206,620 to the Ad Hoc Energy Committee for a contract with Siemens to complete the field installation of new LED fixtures in place of the existing sodium-vapor streetlights.
On Nov. 15, Energy Committee member Bill Fish reported to the selectmen in a memo on the conversion project, that it “has the potential to save the town some $73,000 a year (with current rates) on its electric bill for streetlights, expected to total some $93,000 in Fiscal Year 2018.
“With current known electric rate savings and assumptions for the rebate and borrowing costs, the project would potentially pay for itself over five years with a $50,000 rebate and provide electricity savings of over $1 million over the next 15 years of expected life of the LEDs. Increases in electric rates would potentially further those savings,” concluded Fish.