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Baldwin City Council weighs moving planned substation, schedules work session to study alternatives
Summary
Council members debated whether to move a planned electrical substation from a city-owned highway-front lot to a west-block site after engineers said the alternate location would add roughly $224,000 in construction and property costs; council set a work session and tentatively scheduled a final decision for Oct. 15.
Baldwin City Council members spent more than an hour debating whether to relocate a planned electrical substation from an already approved city-owned lot to an alternate site one block west, as staff and technical presenters outlined higher construction costs, site-preparation work and timing risks.
The council heard from staff and technical presenters that shifting the substation a block west would increase underground transmission length — requiring more conduit and cable — and add what staff described as an incremental cost in the low-to-mid six figures in addition to the cost of buying the alternate property. "The biggest part of it is the copper wire," said Speaker 5, a technical presenter, summarizing the primary driver of the higher price.
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