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Council approves electrical panel rebuild at Seer Gates Community Center to reduce outage risk

City Council of New Iberia · November 5, 2025
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Summary

City moves forward with replacing a 1960s-era main electrical panel at Seer Gates Community Center after staff warned the existing configuration risks failure; council prioritized the base panel replacement and deferred a single-service reconfiguration and transfer switch (generator hookup) for later funding.

The New Iberia City Council approved a contract to replace the aging main electrical panel at the Seer Gates Community Center after staff described a potentially serious reliability risk to the facility.

Staff said the existing setup includes two services and an original main panel from the 1960s. "If that goes out and this is also 1960 electrical panels,"…

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