Civil and Municipal - Jan 2024

‘Come out and visit the town of Lancaster, where you can spend the daytime enjoying our parks, and trails, and travel safely at night with our LED lighting to one of your favorite restaurants’,” quips Ruffino. This lighting project, which he started when he was a council member, had the multi-pronged goal of improving lighting quality and reducing outages, energy consumption, and operating costs for taxpayers.“The payback was expected to be about 12 years, and the anticipated savings of approximately $3 million over the next 25 years,” he relays. “I did a comparison of a full year without LED lighting versus a full year with LED lighting, and the energy savings was $197,184. So, I think the payback is going to be much less than 12 years.” Additionally, the communitywas the first municipality 164 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 5, ISSUE 01