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Minutes for the Meeting of November 8, 1993 4 Mr. Dailey thanked all who had joined the Board for tonight's meeting, and said the next joint meeting will probably be held in late December or early January. STREET LIGHTS Mr. Dailey discussed the moratorium on street lighting in effect for the past three years because Boston Edison has only authorized the installation of high pressure sodium vapor lighting to replace incandescent and mercury vapor lights currently used in Lexington. He noted that many citizens have been without street lighting f or long periods of time. Mr. Dailey reported that there are 18 unlit streets in Lexing- ton, some of which have been unlit for as long as 12 years, and suggested that some of these unlit subdivision streets have trial installations of other lighting types that have been recommended by the Lighting Options Committee than those proposed by Boston Edison. Lighting Options committee chairman Myla. Kabat -Zinn discussed an agreement between Boston Edison and the Town, which authorized the installation of 50 experimental street lights on a trial basis, and a street lighting pilot program already in place on Percy Road and Bloomfield Street where 10 color - corrected high pressure sodium vapor lights were installed about 2 months ago, and which she invited all interested citizens to go and look at. she thought there were some wonderful lighting options that could be set up throughout the Town in the next several months. In response to questions, the Committee's consultant, Chris Whitman, said that the high pressure sodium vapor lighting is the lowest cost type of lighting, but results in a high glare type of lighting, and that the committee agreed that incandescent lighting was no longer practical, but that there were color corrected light- ing types that should be considered as an alternative to the high pressure sodium vapor lighting. Mrs. Kabat -Zinn said the committee expected to be ready with an alternate lighting proposal in time for the next Town Meeting. Safety concerns were expressed by Board members that subdivi- sion streets without lights have lighting installed as soon as possible, as well as other streets now without lighting. In response to other questions, it was noted that the agreement with Boston Edison calls for the installation of 50 lights and there is a need for 90 lights. Mr. white explained that persons without lighting on their streets were invited to this discussion to hear of the different types of lighting in general, and he explained the ones now under consideration, and noted that presently, high pressure sodium vapor lights are the only ones the Town is authorized to service. Mr. white asked DPW Director Richard Spiers to explain the fiscal problems with getting the lights installed, noting that the FY94 Street Lighting Budget of $488,946 appeared to be short between. $10,000 - $12,000, based on Boston Edison Co. estimates. Mr. Spiers directed the Board's attention to a memo to Mr. White from Mr. Spiers, dated November 4, 1993, entitled Street Lighting Options, and also presented an estimate of the time it would take to get the work done.