{"id":12185,"date":"2015-10-07T17:34:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T21:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=12185"},"modified":"2015-10-07T17:34:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T21:34:13","slug":"return-on-led-investment-is-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/return-on-led-investment-is-ridiculous\/","title":{"rendered":"Return on LED investment is &#8220;ridiculous&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a resident of Aurora since 1994.<br \/>\nHaving managed technology companies with over 2,000 employees for many years, I have always been surprised on how Town Council seems able to spend taxpayers money with little regard to logic and\/or making sound financial decisions.<br \/>\nIt just appears that Council choices are either based on personal agendas or some kind of Provincial initiative that is sometimes unproven or without much merit.<br \/>\nWhat looks good does not necessarily mean it makes sense! But, like most Canadians we stay quiet and accept these things as normal with Governments.<br \/>\nBut, last week reading The Auroran, I was stunned to see Council once again seriously contemplating a proposal to go forward with a $3.3M expense to replace streetlights with LED technology that makes no sense. While I applaud looking at new technologies that may be positive for the environment or be more efficient, how can Council spend our tax dollars on something with a 10 year ROI?<br \/>\nWhatever positive this technology may have a so-called payback this long is beyond comprehension.<br \/>\nClearly Council operates in a different world than any of us. Not surprising that taxes go up every year and the justifications for increases are always weak or based on curious math!<br \/>\nInvesting in new initiatives is a good thing and longer payback periods can be justifiable at times but, honestly beyond five years is ridiculous.<br \/>\nTechnology changes way too fast to look at 10 years down the road. LED will be replaced or changed way before this so-called investment is paid back.<br \/>\nIt would be nice to see Council make decisions that follow some basic financial principles just once!<\/p>\n<p><strong>R. Seguin<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F12185&#038;t=Return%20on%20LED%20investment%20is%20%E2%80%9Cridiculous%E2%80%9D&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F12185&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Return%20on%20LED%20investment%20is%20%E2%80%9Cridiculous%E2%80%9D\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F12185&#038;text=Like%3F\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Return%20on%20LED%20investment%20is%20%E2%80%9Cridiculous%E2%80%9D&#038;body=Like%3F:%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F12185\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a resident of Aurora since 1994. Having managed technology companies with over 2,000 employees for many years, I have always been surprised on how Town Council seems able to spend taxpayers money with little regard to logic and\/or making sound financial decisions. It just appears that Council choices are either based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-3ax","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 00:25:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}