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AGENDA TITLE: Approve Specifications and Authorize Advertisement for Bids for the Grounding
and Fusing of City Streetlight System in Grid A (EUD)
MEETING DATE: October 6,2010
PREPARED BY: Electric Utility Director
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve specifications and authorize advertisement for bids for the
grounding and fusing of city streetlight system in Grid A.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The existing City streetlight system was designed and constructed
as an ungrounded system in accordance with standards at that time.
Those standards are now out of date and do not provide the degree
of safety and protection consistent with current specifications requiring grounding. Ungrounded
streetlights create a potential electrocution hazard to the general public.
For purposes of public safety, the Electric Utility Department established a program and specifications of
grounding and installing fuses in all streetlight systems that are ungrounded and without protective
devices. In compliance with this specification, the contractor shall provide and install fuses and
grounding to 280 streetlights within the area bounded approximately by Mills Avenue, Elm Street and the
Woodbridge Canal on the West and North edge of the City limits (Grid A), see attached map. This is the
first phase of the project and will be completed by April 1, 2011.
FISCAL IMPACT: Estimated cost is $150,000.
FUNDING: Included in the EUD 2010/11 Budget Account No. 161633.
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Ef abeth A. Kirkley
Electric Utility Director
PREPARED BY: Demy Bucaneg, Jr. PE, Assistant Electric Utility Director
Ed Fitzpatrick, Distribution Planning Supervisor
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APPROVED:
nradt Bartlam, Interim City Manager
TO: STOCKTON