6.3. ERMUSR 09-09-2003 Elk River
Municipal Utilities
322 King Avenue phone: 763.441.2020
Elk River,MN 55330 Fax:763.441.8099
September 3, 2003
To: Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission
John Dietz
Jerry Takle
James Tralle
From: Bryan C. Adams
Subject: Street Light Maintenance
Both the City and Elk River Municipal Utilities, are in the budgeting process for 2004
and beyond. One issue that needs to be addressed is street light maintenance. The
immediate issue is Main Street lights, but the broader issue is the steel and aluminum
light poles on the major roadways and semaphores at the intersections.
To the best of my understanding, the Elk River Municipal Utilities is to provide the
electricity at no cost to the City and replace the lamps at no cost to the City, because we
have the equipment to do so. We are starting to go far beyond this maintenance issue into
much more repair work. My question to this commission is, should we be doing more
than lamp replacement? City staff is under the impression, we do all street light
maintenance.
A typical example is Main Street lights. As these lights are hit by vehicles, we reinstall
these lights and often replace the light post if damaged. Sometimes the persons hitting
the pole, insurance reimburses us the cost, but often we absorb these costs. As the street
light arms fail, we have paid to have new arms fabricated and we reinstall (see the
attached pictures). The anchor bolts have been rusting off, so we designed, paid for
installed new anchor bolts, and reinstalled the light. The anchor bolt issue was going to
be a joint Utility/City project, but it just didn't happen due to scheduling available
manpower. For safety reasons, the arm replacement and anchor bolt replacement needs
to happen in a timely fashion. In the last purchase of replacement arms and anchor bolt
assemblies, we have expensed approximately $7,000 in material only.
My real concern, is the future painting or replacement costs of metal street light poles and
semaphores (see the attached pictures). This will be expensive and an on going endeavor.
Who is the party responsible for these costs? Staff solicits your comments on this issue.
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