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City council approves $700,000 lighting assessment to map and prioritize streetlight improvements
Summary
Council authorized a contractor to perform a six-month citywide lighting assessment including photometric analysis and GIS asset mapping; staff said only one bid came in for the scaled-down assessment and funds will come from the lighting district fund.
The East Palo Alto City Council approved a citywide lighting assessment contract that staff says will inventory lighting assets, perform photometric analysis, and deliver neighborhood-level reports and GIS mapping.
Senior Engineer Batul Zaro told the council the contractor will assess city lighting conditions and produce a per‑neighborhood report identifying deficiencies and recommending improvements such as new streetlights, upgraded mast arms, fixtures or solar installations. "They're gonna perform a photometric analysis…and prepare a shape file, which means we're gonna have a layer on GIS of all the existing assets," Zaro said.
One council member raised concern that the contract before the council was $700,000 and that only one bid had been received. Staff explained that an earlier procurement with a larger scope produced bids between $5 million and $7 million, while the assessment-only scope currently under consideration was smaller; engineers’ estimates were closer to about $500,000. The funding for the assessment will come from the city’s lighting district fund.
Following discussion, the council moved and approved the item.
What happens next: staff will receive the assessment deliverables, bring back the neighborhood reports and begin planning a construction/installation phase based on the recommended priorities.
