Global Green Lighting CEO Shares Strong Words To Chattanooga’s Mayor

A local business owner says Chattanooga’s Mayor is backing out of a multi million dollar deal involving the replacement of city street lights. Tuesday night, the Company’s CEO is firing $18 million dollar contract was put into place during the Ron Littlefield administration. It tasked Global Green lighting with replacing 27 thousand lights with new LED ones to save energy. Now, Mayor Berke believes he has a more cost effective way of doing it. 28 million ‘s how much an audit done by the City says taxpayers would save by using these energy efficient L-E-D lights. And Global Green lighting CEO, Don Lepard says the savings could be even more than that. But Mayor Andy Berke has different plans. “Most of the lights we replaced last year were lights that still had plenty of time left in them, If you bought a new refrigerator and financed it, you wouldn’t go out the next year and buy another new refrigerator. We want to avoid that here in city government,” said he says he’s cutting the deal with Global Green lighting and instead opening up a bid to other companies.”I understand that any company would want to do $18 million dollars worth of work with the city. But my job as Mayor is to make sure I look out for the entire city’s benefit and for the benefit of our taxpayers,” said news angers CEO Don Lepard who says he has $5 million dollars worth of inventory sitting in his factory ready to go. He’s sharing some strong words to Chattanooga’s Mayor.”If the Mayor wants to renege on a contract that we have in place with the city and we’ve done nothing wrong for it, that’s a message he’s sending to every entrepreneur in Chattanooga who wants to do business with the city. Don’t do it,” said as for as Lepard is concerned,”Mayor Berke needs to read the contract. He hasn’t terminated this contract yet. There