The request of staff for City Council's review and consideration of approval, is an attached utility easement from Duke Energy Florida, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company, d/b/a Duke Energy granting access to the Gloria Swanson parking lot.

As City Council may recall, during the fiscal year of 2014/2015 the City and Duke Energy completed the LED Streetlight Conversion Project.  Subsequent to the project completion, New Port Richey became the first city in Pasco County's Duke Energy network to replace all of its streetlights from the high pressure sodium vapor (PSV) elements to light emitting diodes (LEDs).  The streetlight replacements were the first phase of a two phase process.  The second phase is the conversion of all City owned parking lot lights from the existing PSV to LEDs.  During the design phase it was discovered that no utility easement was present for Duke Energy to replace and maintain the light facilities in the City owned Gloria Swanson parking lot located east of Bank St. and south of Grand Blvd.  The granting of this utility easement by the City Council would be considered a housekeeping item by staff.