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The design prepared for the 36th Street roadway lighting is based on a residential collector roadway classification and three alternatives are presented. The recommended plan and Option #1 call for 11-16,000 lumen high presure sodiun lamps spaced every 190' + apart using concrete poles (recommended) or wood poles, (Option #1) for a yearly cost of $1,709.40 and $1,603.80 respectively. Option T2 proposes installing 8-22,000 lumen lights on the existingg poles on the south side of 36th Street at an annual cost of $1,401.24. This last option is not recommended due to a resulting insufficient level of illumination provided. Alternatives and Analysis: The alternatives are: 1) Install lighting along Barber Ave. fran U.S. #1 to the new Hospital. Annual Cost: $5,547.12 2) Install lighting along 36th Street from U.S. #1 to the new Hospital. Annual Cost: Reccamended Plan •$1,709.40 (concrete poles) Option #1 1,603.80 (wood.poles) Option #2 1,401.24 The iract upon providing lighting along these corridors includes improving the visibility and safety for pa tients,.emergency vehicles, and physicians which use this facility on a 24 hour basis. Lighting both corridors allows night safety to two emergency roan access corridors. Alternatives_ may include lighting only one or neither corridor. If one corridor were illuminated, 37th Street (Barber Ave.) would serve the west and proposed future east approach, but at three times the cost of illuminating 36th Street. Alternative methods of financing include: 1) Set up a special street lighting district as established for the Gifford Area. It may be possible to simply include this area within the Gifford District. Certain - Agricultural land fronts on the roads, and it would have to be determined it this land should contribute. 2) Approach the Hospital Board to consider paying for this service. 3) Provide payment from the County's 14unicipal Service Fund for the 36th Street lighting and frau the Transportation Trust Fund for the 37th Street lighting (Barber Ave.). Recommendations and Funding: Based upon past policy as implemented in the Gifford area, it is recommended that a special street lighting district be considered and both 37th Street and 36th Street be illuminated at an annual cost of $7,256.52. Recommend that staff be authorized to research the delineation of the district limits, determine the taxable land value in the area, and calculate the anticipated mill -age involved. Final figures shall be brought back to the Board once complete. Considerable discussion followed, and it was determined that this matter should be first reviewed by the Transportation Planning Committee. It was suggested that the Committee might want to get the Hospital Board and the City of Vero Beach involved in this request. APR 7 1982 aoo 4 _ 19