Cashmere City Receives Updated Cost Estimate for LED Streetlights
The city of Cashmere discussed the updated cost estimate for the Transportation Improvement Board grant funds to be used toward the LED Streetlight Conversion Project. Originally, the cost estimate for most of the streetlights throughout the city was set at $380,000.
"We added some additional lights and we were working on some of the wiring, so we got another almost $90,000 to make some additional improvements to the lights. To put new fixtures on and then also do some re-wiring," said Steve Croci, Director of Operations.
Currently, a lot of the streetlights have been re-wired, but Croci confirmed there are some more lights left to take care of. The streetlights that have darkened have been a constant headache for the city, due to the expensiveness of the project and difficulty to securing an electrician.
"The other streetlights, the one that haven't been working quite right, we're going to continue to plug away at those," said Croci. "It's going to take awhile to get all of them up to standard."