Title/Name/Summary
Baseball Field Lighting at the John Humphrey Complex
History
In 2020, the Streets division inherited all lighting in the Village to include parking lot lights and ballfield lights at multiple sports complexes as part of the consolidation of natural resources and facilities into Public Works. The Street’s division ascertained challenges of previous departments maintaining ballfield lighting. These challenges include renting equipment that can reach seventy (70) feet in height to make needed repairs, at a cost approximately $2,500 per week; and the fields get soft after it rains, preventing the equipment from being able to drive onto the field. Additionally, Little League Baseball has created lighting standards for the baseball fields, which currently our fields do not meet. By upgrading the equipment to LED lighting, the fields will meet the standards, which can be found on the Little League website.
In 2022, the process of upgrading the Village’s ballfield lighting began with Field #4 at Centennial Park, followed by Field #5 in 2023. Musco Sports Lighting LLC (Musco), a Sourcewell Co-op, was chosen as the preferred vendor for all the fields. Musco lighting is a proven system that offers long-term reliability above their competitors, with a twenty-five (25) year warranty, including parts and labor. All outages, last minute changes, or any other problems with the system are handled immediately by Musco. The challenges found by Street’s division are mitigated and lighting brought up to Little League standards.
The John Humphrey Complex (JHC) ballfield lighting is planned for upgrades in 2025. Past projects consisted of replacing the existing outdated fixtures with new Musco LED fixtures. This project is a complete revamp of the JHC system which includes new poles with LED lights, new underground conduit with wiring, and lighting for the batting cage and surrounding bike paths and parking lot. Receiving proactive approval for this project will...
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