Meetings
 


City of Helena, Montana
 
June 16, 2015
To: Ron Alles, City Manager
From:

Glenn Jorgenson, Controller

Tim Magee, Administrative Services Director
Subject: Consider a resolution of intention to amend Special Improvement Lighting District No. 222 to alter the boundaries and add seventeen (17) lights.
Present Situation:

The City Commission created Special Improvement Lighting District No. 222 (SILD) in March of 2011.  The SILD includes all of Antelope Trace and Craftsman Village Phase 1 of Crossroads at Mountain View Meadows.  The SILD has been amended twice as adjacent property was developed.  This amendment will increase the square feet of property in the SILD to include recently platted Alexis Avenue, adjacent City park land, and property along South Alice Street Street that benefit from the new lights.  Exhibit A provides the list of new properties being added and a lighting map.

The entire SILD, including the proposed amended area, has Lexington Colonial luminaries with 100-watt, high-pressure, sodium vapor lamps.  These lights comply with the City's dark-skies lighting ordinance.
Background Information:

Staff is recommending the SILD be amended to add properties benefiting from the additional 17 additional lights installed on Alexis Avenue and  South Alice Street and pay the associated costs.  The additional cost of the new lights is anticipated to be $6,634 for the first year with a total cost of $37,923 for the amended SILD.  The cost per square foot was estimated to be $.0222 per square foot prior to amending it.  It is estimated to be $.0171 per square foot if amended.

If approved staff will advertise twice in the Independent Record and send notices to all property owners in the SILD and proposed amended boundary.
Proposal/Objective:

Staff is recommending the SILD be amended to add properties benefiting from the additional 17 additional lights installed on Alexis Avenue and  South Alice Street and pay the associated costs.  The additional cost of the new lights is anticipated to be $6,634 for the first year with a total cost of $37,923 for the amended SILD.  The cost per square foot was estimated to be $.0222 per square foot prior to amending it.  It is estimated to be $.0171 per square foot if amended.

If approved staff will advertise twice in the Independent Record and send notices to all property owners in the SILD and proposed amended boundary.
Advantage: The current SILD property owners will benefit from having a more equitable distribution of the cost of the lights that benefit all property owners.  They also receive benefit from the new lights as they help light a main arterial street into the subdivisions and the recently developed City park.
Notable Energy Impact: Additional electricity will be used and paid for by the SILD property owners.
Disadvantage: None
Notice of Public Hearing: N/A
Staff Recommendation:
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Resolution of Intention