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TO: The Honorable f,iembers of the Board of County Con-missioners FROM: Neil A. Nelson, County Administrator DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS DATE: Seotember 21, 1981 FILE: SUBJECT: Agreement proposed by Florida Po,;ier & Light to convert existing Mercury Vapor Street Lights to High Pressure Sodium REFERENCES: H. R. Reiner, P.E. , District Engineer, F.P.L. Fort Pierce Office dated July 24, 1981 and July 31, 1931 By mandate from the Florida Public Service Commission (FPSC), Florida Power and Light Co. has developed a program to replace existing Mercury Vapor street and outdoor lighting with energy efficient High Pressure Sodium luminai- The attached Conservation Lighting Conversion Agreement is intended to comple; and serve as an addendum to the original 1965 FPL -IRC agreement. Both are 10 agreements with automatic renewal clauses. Florida Power and Light i nt?r;C_- replace all of the County's Mercury Vapor lamps with HPS in the next five years within FPL's Franchise Area. Even though the Fort Pierce Office is execution of this agreement, it is intended to apply for both the Fort Pier._ FPL Franchise Area south of SR 60 and the Melbourne FPL Franchise Area north o SR 60. ANALYSIS AND ALTERNATIVES ' The County staff has reviewed this proposed agreement and all comments received were in favor of executing the agreement. We have asked for a listing of those lights for which the County is responsible, and the attached list of 46 lights has been compiled by FPL. These lights are in the South half of the County. Thirty(30) of the 46 lights are within the Laurelwood Street Lighting District. A listing of those.lights in the north county (Melbourne District) has been requested. It is felt by the staff that since the agreement will result in savings to the County, it is not necessary to have this list of lights in the north county prior to signing this agreement. The impact approval of this agreement would have on the County includes a reduction in monthly cost for streetlighting and better, more efficient illum- ination. RECOMMENDATIONS AND FUNDING It is recommended that execution of the FPL Conservation Lighting Conversion Agreement be approved. There are no funding considerations to be approved by the Board for this item. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT THE COST AND THE EFFICIENCY OF THE PROPOSED SODIUM LIGHTS, AND IT WAS EXPLAINED THAT BASICALLY WE WOULD BE GETTING MORE LIGHT AND USING LESS POWER$ MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER BIRD,. SECONDED BY COMMIS- SIONER SCURLOC K TO ACCEPT THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE ADMINISTRATOR AND APPROVE THE EXECUTION OF THE FPL CONSERVATION LIGHTING CONVERSION AGREEMENT SEP 3 01991 53 BOdK 47 PAGE 632