Finance Committee - 09/02/2020 Page 10
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
| believe this is Mr. Caggiano?
Nick Caggiano, Parks & Rec Superintendent
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This purchase is for wireless security cameras for the Skateboard Park. The park,
when it was originally installed, these were part of the project but we had to make some funding decisions.
Because it is based or being funded out of the Cell Tower Account, we had to wait a few years until that
account built back up. There is now sufficient funds in there to purchase this equipment. It is very important.
And along with it we are purchasing, through a separate funding, Street Department, a new system for the
Street Department and three additional cameras to take care of any security issues over there.
We get a little bonus, the cameras at the Skateboard Park will be able to pick up the parking lot that was
created and that one entrance into Mine Falls where people go to the Gatehouse, that will help as well. We
have 30 days’ worth of retainage on a DVR so we will be able to look back if there was an incident at the park,
we would be able to look back. We would also have live feeds so the appropriate people who have
authorization could actually use their cell phone and see what is going on at the park at any given time.
Mayor Donchess
And this is being funded out of the Cell Phone Tower Revenue as opposed to Tax Revenue.
Mr. Caggiano
That’s correct, it is out of the Skateboard Trust.
Mayor Donchess
Alderwoman Klee?
Alderman Klee
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Caggiano, have there been any incidents since the park was built and that we’ve
been waiting for this fund to build up that these cameras might have helped us with.
Mr. Caggiano
Yes, the first year there were very few incidents, it was so new. The second year just like anything else, things
started happening. It’s mostly been graffiti, the park getting tagged things such as that.
Alderman Klee
And you said that it would be, it would also show the entrance, the parking lot and the entrance going in by the
Skate Park. You mentioned about the Scale House, is it going to go, will it be able to see that far over or just
the entrance there?
Mr. Caggiano
Just the entrance by the sign.
