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whom were present at Thursday’s monthly meeting, said they would step down from the Lighting Committee. The Lighting Committee, by the way, will not be selecting a specific fixture or negotiating a price. The Town Council will be doing that at a future date, and council members have said the matter has already dragged on too long.
Mrs. Willis said Mr. Eldred's comments were motivated by a conflict of interest. As owner of Washington House of Reproduction, a retail lamp business, he wants the light contract for himself, she charged.
“I assume [Mr. Eldred’s concerns] are that he wants to sell his light to the town. If so, that’s a conflict for him,” she said.
Mr. Eldred said Friday he has never intended to make or sell to the town any fixtures.
“Absolutely not,” he said, when asked if he intended to compete for the contract. “I couldn’t if I wanted to. . . . The people that made that statement obviously are not knowledgeable of the facts.”
Besides what he said was an ethical problem he would face, he added that municipal lighting is a “whole different world” from the kinds of light he works with. "We might as well be talking about me making automobiles,” he said.
Members of the ARB on the Lighting Committee, he said, were only concerned with the style of light fixture, and had no patience for technical issues such as the quality of the color, the light placement, and maintenance.
He supports “historically authenticated" fixtures that would be similar to a few that survive in the town, a model Hadeo calls its Union Square. But other companies also make the style, said Mr. Eldred, un
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