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Two Los Angeles council members moved to pour more than a million additional dollars into streetlight repairs Friday, chasing a problem that is already draining more than $20 million a year from taxpayers while entire neighborhoods sit in the dark. The back-to-back motions, introduced at City Hall Friday by mayoral hopeful and councilwoman Nithya Raman and councilmember Bob Blumenfield, target copper wire theft that has gutted the city’s lighting system and triggered a growing backlog of broken poles. Blumenfield’s motion asks to shift $787,000 in funds into the city’s street lighting budget, with $472,200 earmarked for labor, $236,000 for supplies…

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