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Background: PRIORITY INTERSECTION STREET LIGHTING By: Steven J. Jankowski, City Engineer CASE #9 Enclosed is ~e sffeet lighting policy adopted by City Council in the fall of 1990. With the recent subdivisions,~whi[:h include Chestnut Hills, Cedar Hills, Chestnut Pond, Windemere Woods and Wood Pond_//4.' illSk the City has begun implementation of its subdivision...lighting program. The costs for the! ~ubd~vision lighting will be defrayed directly by the sub&vts~on property owners as an additional tine item on the sewer and water bill. The other co~pon~ent of our street lighting policy is the priority arterial street lighting. Funding for this compon~t cJ~ the lighting system is identified as a general benefit to the general public and is therefore to~b}: fi~nced from sources derived from the general population. Such revenue sources could inclu~l~the City's General Fund or MSA road maintenance funds. However, beginning in 1990, the Ctt~ b~lian collecting Stage II escrow monies from developers in anticipation of a street lighting polio3 be; ~g developed and implemented. The adopted policy did acknowledge the monies collected afidl~asS~Ired that those developers who had paid street lighting escrows would receive street lightS~t a~[cesses to their subdivisions regardless of where that particular intersection appeared on Se th ?ce-tiered priority schedule. Below is a .lis~fing Of subdivisions which have paid monies into the street lighting escrow account: ~ ~ Amount [: Fo~ Ridge Estates 1,200 i H%brich Addition 1,200 ,~ Hai~ser Addition 1,200 ~r Jumper Woods 3,600 ~ Jumper Woods 2nd Addition 3,600 [ Na~.e View 1,200 ~ NOeuh Forty 3rd Addition . 1,200 !oa Run ,200 ~ S°rkebergs 6th Addition 2,400 ~ S hope Terrace 3.600 i i TOTAL $20,400 To provide in}tal!~tion of lights at appropriate locations, approximately 14 lights for these ten subdivisions~ ~t aniaverage cost of $550 each would be required. This would leave approximately $7,700 in the- ~c0t~nt which would cover the cost of operation and maintenance for roughly seven years before:t~e fijnd was depleted. It was the City's intention when this policy was adopted to add a small nt~bei' of priority intersections on an annual basis as the budget permitted. With the budget cuts 0~e' r thb past two years, this has not materialized. Nonetheless; We h.hve received requests from developers for the installation of street lights for which they ha~,e Piid. The monies are sufficient to install, maintain and operate these lights for approximatels(sevtn years. After that time, it would be necess,,ar~, to fund the maintenance from the General ig~nd, ,MSA account, or another source. Ultimatet3, the operation and maintenance cost of the eft. tire'priority intersection lighting system, a total of approximately 150 lights encompassing ~ri0~ties A through D,would be approximately $12,000 per year.