City converting to LED lights

Sheffield Lake is continuing to look at ways to become energy efficient.

The city is currently in the process of converting their lights to the more energy efficient LED lights.

Superintendent Pat Hastings recently attended an LED conversion seminar in Cleveland along with the cities of Avon and Lorain and other Northeast Ohio communities.

“The idea is that you convert all of the, there are several different bulb types in our city, you convert all of those to an LED so there’s a pure white light,” Hastings said. “And theoretically and we’re doing the analysis now, the savings in the energy will pay for the conversation.

Mayor Dennis Bring stressed while he wasn’t initially enthusiastic about the idea, the results have spoken for themselves.

“This year we’ve done it in the fire department, we’ve done it in the service department, we’ve done it in the police department,” Bring said. So we’re systematically going around and doing it in the whole city.

“It’s energy savings. I was not for it in the very beginning and everything. I’ve taken my house and done the same thing. It makes total sense and it makes sense for our city,” Bring added.

The mayor noted that if the entirety of Sheffield Lake were to convert it would represent a cost savings of around $175,000 annually.

In other business, Sheffield Lake City Council approved two pieces of legislation renewing the city’s enrollment in the Lorain County Health Insurance Plan and establishing employee eligibility and contribution rates.