Items PresentedReport Street Lighting Issues Within Toledo We are experiencing excessive repeat issues with street lighting problems, Often I have to file the same report at least twice before corrective action is taken. The completion ratio of the first reported work orders appears to be about 50 to 609 percent. I cite Navarre Park as a prime example. Tow work orders have been filed through customer service in addition to an e-mail sent. Still there have been no results to date, ‘The normal worker can handle between 10 and 12 lights on a good problems free night. Holland has one worker seven nights a week and two, three nights a week covering their entire area. More lights are burning out then they are able to repair on their normal schedule. Within many Toledo, neighborhoods older style heads on the lampposts are no longer replaceable with like kind and quality due to changes in style. However when these fixtures need replaced, Toledo Edison is not replacing them with the closest like kind and quality fixtures. The acorn style lighting should be used in most neighborhoods. ‘The infrastructure in downtown is ageing and it seems that street lighting failures are an everyday occurrence. It is my understanding that in order to get downtown up to par and in reliable shape it would take a dedicated network crew about three to four straight months working solely on street lighting in downtown Toledo. Within many of the city’s parks, Toledo Edison fixtures are installed to provide nighttime security. These lights are often neglected and burnt out. The public is not supposed to be in the parks at night. Therefore, it would be good for the crews to check these at night to help ensure the safety of our citizens.‘What is a reasonable time frame to handie the pole-to-pole bores that need to be completed? Is there a reason why you are requesting that customer service be eliminated from these reports? ‘What happens to the Lineshops if customer service is aware that these reports are not being answered in 72 hours? How do the other cities handle these reports? Is this placing the City of Toledo outages on the back burner compared to Maumee, Oregon or others? Finally what will be our long-term strategy to handle these issues after I am gone? We have momentum and that is important, how will we build on this and not slip bac! into old habits? May we please have access to your maps and records so we can continue to work on these issues of pole-to-pole above ground lines and work on getting an inventory together? ‘The High Level Bridge needs rewired. Extensive painting is required on many of the metal poles throughout the city. ‘The number of missing service covers across the city is easily estimated between 700- 1000. How do we plan to address this issue?The high pressure sodium lights are hated by the citizens. If the people we are supposed to serve are displeased with these lights then we need to consider another type of lighting, ‘There are other options such as Ceramic Discharge Metal Halide, which have a longer life than the standard Metal Halide, Underpass lighting within the City of Toledo has also been neglected. I filed work orders several times over the last two years for the lights under the rail road bridge on S. Detroit ‘Ave. between Wildwood Blvd. and Schneider Rd. Each time, Toledo Edison said the lights were not under their ownership. It tums out the lights are indeed theirs and now there is a huge backlog in fixing these underpasses. On July 9" I tured in a list of six ‘underpasses in Holland lines area. To date, only three have been checked all three have ‘major faults. I suspect all the other three will have major faults as well. [have another six underpass lights that are out in Holland and many more in Lakewood. By leaving underpasses dark it creates a dangerous situation in which people can be robbed/murdered such as what occurred near the UT campus at Westwood and Bancroft. ‘We may soon increase the number of outages reported through customer service to an average of 25 to 30 a night. With the current staffing levels, it will not take long to create a huge back log how will we handle this? Along many streets in Toledo, such as Monroe St., we have metal poles with underground service. Over the years as underground failures have become an issue, pole to pole above ground lines have been strung as temporary fixes to the issues. Now we have around 450 pole-to-pole lines that need to be placed under ground. I have yet to work my way through the entire city so there may be more of these issues out there. To date, these issues have gone unanswered.