Karen Bass: “It's extremely expensive to keep replacing copper.”

“So I'm in the middle of tying down now a pretty massive purchase of solar lights to be going up around the city. It is expensive, but It's extremely expensive to keep replacing copper. But what the city department will tell you is that, well, we can do that quicker and it's cheaper to replace the copper.” (29:09–29:13)

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