CAMDEN – When the city’s streetlights in the Whitman Park section last year were inventoried in a pilot project, about 100 out of 250 needed replacing.
Now the city wants every streetlight in the city checked, mapped and maintained in a digital database.
City Council on Tuesday voted to award nonprofit Hopeworks Camden – the vendor that conducted the Whitman Park pilot – $150,000 “to provide inventory of all working and non-working streetlights.”
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