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Former councilor urges audit of nonfunctional street lights; committee to invite National Grid
Summary
A former council member told the finance committee that widespread nonfunctional lights and orange-pole markers are damaging neighborhoods; the committee budgeted electric costs were discussed and staff will invite National Grid and department heads for a follow-up session.
Former Delaware District Council member Coppola asked the Committee on Finance to take action on widespread nonfunctional street lights and the orange cone markers that signal outages, calling the problem a public-safety and visual blight concern.
Coppola told the panel that a prior audit two decades ago had uncovered hundreds of "phantom" street lights and recovered…
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