Finance Committee - 09/02/2020 Page 11
Alderman Klee
So we can actually see who is going in and out of the park. Thank you very much | appreciate that.
Mr. Caggiano
You’re welcome, Mayor?
Mayor Donchess
Alderwoman Lu?
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you, this seems like a needless expense | am not quite familiar with how we put our buckets of money. |
understand it doesn’t come out of the General Fund or the taxes. | know that | have a playground in my Ward
that has been asking for a video camera for a long time. The people that live around Fields Grove have been
very concerned about the activity there. | am just disappointed to see that we have, we do have funding for
that, because | thought we had no funding for this type of thing. But | just think that it is money that could be
saved, we don’t know what the future is going to bring, that’s my feeling. Thank you.
Mayor Donchess
This does come from a dedicated source of revenue; the Cell Tower is dedicated to the Skateboard Park and
has been for some years. The camera at Fields Grove sounds like a good idea especially if we’ve got
incidents going on down there. | wasn’t aware of the wishes of the residents concerning that. So maybe that is
something we should look at in the future. Fields Grove being a very nice place to gather and we certainly don’t
want any damage down there.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you.
Mayor Donchess
Anyone else on this subject? Yes, Brandon, excuse me, Alderman Laws.
Alderman Laws
You can call me Brandon, that’s alright. First off, Alderman Lu, | will co-sponsor that Legislature with you if you
want to put cameras at Fields Grove | think that’s a good idea. So | was reading over this and what you just
said, Mr. Caggiano, about dedicated people who are capable of watching the video from their cell phones.
Does that include law enforcement?
Mr. Caggiano
Nick Caggiano, Park & Rec Superintendent. No, currently we have systems like this at Greeley Park and at the
Holocaust Park. It is just DPW personnel. If an incident happened, then we would get a request for the PD and
they would come in and review the tapes. But they are not monitoring it real-time.
