The Clovis Public Works Committee met on July 23, 2025, at 8:30 AM in the North Annex. The committee discussed residential street lighting funding, voted to remove a median on Texas Street, received updates on city infrastructure projects and Clovis Municipal Schools construction and youth programs, and recognized volunteer committee members.
Start over. Sure. Call the meeting to order with the clerk Carl Roe. Mayor Pro Tem Bryant. Cliff Martin. Here. Lynn Bose. Here. Isaac Crispin. Here. Commissioner Zamora. Here. Commissioner Porter? Here. Commissioner Jones. Randy Rodriguez. All right. I'd like to entertain if everybody's had a chance to read the um minutes from the last and get an approval for the minutes from May 28th. You need an approval. Yes, please. I moved to approve the minutes. Second. Second. All right. Uh underdue business. Uh discussion and recommendation regarding residential street lighting. Justin. Hold on. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. So the city of Clovis, we applied for Capital LA funding during the last legislative session once again for residential street lighting. And uh if you recall last uh legislative seat, the previous one before last year, uh we also had received uh uh capital LA for residential street lighting. Uh at that time, or we actually have just completed installing 22 uh new solar street lights uh in the community, and those were focused on district three. And so what I wanted to do, and and we don't have to make a actual recommendation today, but I just wanted to get because we don't have a grant agreement in place yet, but wanted to you start thinking about where we could potentially install this next set of street lights. Uh when we asked for them and we started talking about it, we were thinking about district three again. And so what I had our GIS uh consensus planning do is actually go out and map for us where we have street lights and where we do not have street lights in the community. And so that's what you see that's on on this particular handout. Uh everything that you see in I'm gonna say blue is actually streetlights owned by Excel Energy. Uh and then everything that you see in a pinkish red color, mainly on the east side of town and north side of town, are the street lights that are owned by Farmers Electric. Uh everything that has a red circle around it are intersections that do not have street lights at them currently. Uh since we did have the information available to us and obviously uh knew how many intersections we have in town. I actually had them run the numbers by district on the number of intersections that do not have street lights. Um I was kind of surprised at how evenly it was across all four of our districts. And so when you look at uh the top total there, so total intersections without a street light within a hundred feet, and so either our intersections are closer together or there's just a light that's randomly near the intersection, because we now require all intersections to have street lights in our code. Um so that's how they came up with these numbers. But uh district one has 68 intersections, district two has eighty-nine intersections, district three has seventy-eight intersections, and district four has sixty-six intersections for a total of three hundred and one intersections without uh currently without residential street lights. And so like I said, I was really surprised at how evenly spaced out it was across uh all of the districts when it comes to this. One thing that I think that we should think about as we go through this process, rather than randomly saying, okay, let's put three over here in district one, three over here in district two. Is let's start coming up with a plan to try to work our way across the city versus randomly spreading them out. And so that way we can complete maybe an area or a block, um, and then the following year we'd move on to the next block.