Back in May, the Chronicle reported that Mecom Fountain had been dark for seven months, because brazen thieves stole the lights and nobody in municipal government seemed to care all that much about replacing them.
Finally, six months after that report (and after 13 months of darkness), Mayor White and his Council have acted to replace the lights in Mecom Fountain:
[N]o one’s found the vandal who pulled out all the light fixtures last fall. Now, the Houston City Council has approved the $77,000 it’ll take to fix it.
“It’s long overdue and one of the great visual icons in the city of Houston,” said Councilman Peter Brown.
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Houston’s Parks Department says it will take 4 to 6 weeks to install the lights once they’re delivered
