City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: NOVEMBER 5, 2014
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: RASHAD M. YOUNG, CITY MANAGER/s/
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Consideration of a Request to Authorize the Release of Contingent Reserve Funds for Citywide Street Light Assessments.
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ISSUE: Release of $7,956 in FY 2015 Contingent Reserve funding for street light outage assessments.
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council:
1. Authorize the release of $7,956 from the FY 2015 Contingent Reserves to fund two street light outage assessments which will be performed by City staff.
BACKGROUND: City Council in the FY 2015 Add/Delete budget deliberation process added $7,956 to Contingent Reserves and requested that staff perform a Citywide lighting outage assessment. Dominion Virginia Power currently reports approximately 100 street light outages in the City, out of a total of 9,961 lights. In the previous 12 months, Dominion reported approximately 1,000 streetlight outages. The majority of street light outages are the result of bulb failure. Other causes include storm damage to power lines and circuit problems.
Per the City's franchise agreement, Dominion performs necessary repairs and maintenance to the street lights once the outage is reported. However, Dominion does not actively assign staff to search for street light outages. Citizens currently report outages and other problems directly to Dominion by phone or via the new Report and Check Outages page on Dominion's website. Citizens report outages to the City through its Call.Click.Connect. system. Call.Click.Connect. staff are currently scheduled to receive training from Dominion staff in November 2014 on how to research outages in the Dominion database to determine if the outages have previously been reported. The City then provides street light outage information for those...
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