SAVE OUR SHERIFFS' PENSIONS--TELL THE COUNTY TO GO GREEN

As a private citizen, I am forever shocked by the law enforcement union (SEBA) & the County's leadership being so willing to screw its own membership without a fight (SEBA being the same union that backs RAMOS the HARASSER for DA)--we need to cover the back of our law enforcement--part of that promise is making sure all can enjoy the same pension benefits for their years of loyal service. I have a solution--go green. Take the existing lighting out of County facilities and install LED lighting. LED lighting typically uses 5-15% of the energy that a incandescent light uses and they don't have the mercury that compact florescent lights(which is a landfill issue) . LEDs last longer - in many cases over 50,000 hours compared to a typical 1500 hour life for an incandescent bulb. Cost savings for LED lights are calculated based on the savings found over the lifetime of the LED in energy consumption. They do not include the time, effort and expense of replacing an incandescent bulb 30 times over the life of a replacement LED. For example: a typical LED 7x1 watt LED bulb replaces a 75 watt incandescent and lasts 50,000 hours. The savings of 68 watts times 50,000 hours equals 3,400 Kwh. At $0.15 per Kwh the savings is calculated at $519./ bulb--the county has at least 100,000 bulbs or a savings of over $51,000,000??. The savings are actually more as this number does not include the cost of time and energy to buy and physically replace an incandescent 25 to 50 times over the life of the LED. Go green so the Sheriffs can keep their retirement green. SHERIFFS, DON'T LET THE COUNTY & SEBA SELL YOU OUT (again)!