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Resident urges changes to Kenner’s LED streetlight bid, cites out-of-production fixtures and glare concerns

5548273 · August 8, 2025
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Ryan Nugent, a District 3 resident, testified at the Aug. 7 Kenner City Council meeting that the city’s LED streetlight bid packet includes out-of-production and unshielded fixtures and that his written questions had gone unanswered.

Ryan Nugent, a resident of District 3, used the Aug. 7 Kenner City Council meeting’s public-comment period to press the city on its LED streetlight procurement and the specifications in a recent lighting bid packet.

Nugent said the city’s bid packet contains more than 100 items and singled out items 107 through 111, which the packet labels as garden lights and which Nugent said represent the city’s sculptural and landscape lighting. He said item 110 is a duplicate of item 20 and is…

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