Lights in the Heights
One other thing — it came out in tonight’s session that the reason for the streetlight outage in the Heights last year was that power outages screwed up the timers. I have to say that my jaw dropped at that. Even since I was a kid, all the streetlights I’ve been around were obviously photocell controlled (by virtue of seeing them come on when weather conditions, etc. made it dark enough out regardless of time-of-day), so I never would have thought timers would be used anymore — because of the power outage issue the Heights experienced and because of wanting the ability for the lights to turn on whenever it was dark enough (due to weather conditions) and not at set times. Thankfully, we were told that the timer system has been converted to a photocell system. Here’s hoping that the next time the Town has to buy new lighting that it go with photocells in the first place.
May 10th, 2006 at 13:13
As a Town of Arlington taxpayer – and resident of Precinct 21 – I would hope that my representatives support the Town Managers motion for the 55 Venner Road Easement Article 20. 50% is low enough as it is, considering this IS town property and much more than 125K would be made by the trustee.
If the Town of Arlington gives away even a part of this property, the town residents could potentially persue legal action against the town. These are OUR dollars on the line.
In addition, Clarissa Rowe should be ashamed of herself for disregarding the taxpayers in this matter and representing an individual citizen and not the entire town as a whole.