Mineola Trustees authorized $24,500 in emergency repairs on Wednesday after street lighting conductors were damaged about two weeks ago by village employees doing road work.
Superintendent of Public Works Thomas Rini told village trustees at their regularly scheduled board meeting that the damaged conductors, which connect 16 light poles at Roselle Street, Barwick Boulevard and Betty Lane, were not supposed to be in the areas of the streets being worked on.
“They were not supposed to be in the road bed.” Rini told trustees. “I didn’t think the damage would be this extensive.”
Rini went on to say that the lines were installed before the Village of Mineola acquired the roads and so far this has been the only case of lines being installed in the wrong place.
Rini said the lines are supposed to run between the street and the sidewalk as illustrated by roadwork plans. He said the repairing of these lines will take place immediately and no property lost power as a result of the damage.
The construction is part of a 2014 road construction project approved earlier in the year for $40,170, which is being performed by Dvirka & Bartilucci.
The project includes work on Sheridan Boulevard from Jericho Turnpike to Roselle Street; Barwick Boulevard from Jericho Turnpike to Roselle Street; Arlington Street from Sheridan Boulevard to Barwick Boulevard; Brown Street from Sheridan Boulevard to Barwick Boulevard; and Roselle Street from Sheridan Boulevard to Barwick Boulevard.
