Council votes to install cameras at playground
SOUTH CONNELLSVILLE – Borough council on Monday agreed to purchase security cameras to help curb vandalism at the playground and provide protection for the secretary. The cameras are being purchased from Safety First of Dunbar at a cost of $3,136 to install two at borough building, one in the lobby and one in the secretary’s office and $3,300 to install two at the playground.
Jerry Regan, councilman, said the South Connellsville Municipal Authority agreed to split the cost for the cameras at the borough building.
“We feel that’s protection for the secretary,” said Regan.
The other two cameras would be placed at the playground and would be paid for out of the borough’s general fund.
Council discussed the idea last month after Don Clark, street committee chairman, said someone filled the sinks with gravel and dirt at the playground bathrooms and broke the soap dispensers.
As a means to deter the vandalism council agreed to have the police department to first issue a warning to the person or persons involved and charging them with trespassing if they were caught a second time along with banning them from the property for the remainder of the year.
In a separate matter, council agreed to table a motion made by Regan on behalf of Guy Napolillo, councilman and police committee chairman, who was absent from the meeting.
Regan said Napolillo contacted him and asked him to make a motion the borough write a check directly to the police officers for their uniform allowance.
However Mayor Pete Casini said the borough has continued for the last 30 years to write a check to the company that came in and measured for the uniforms because when they wrote checks directly to the officers before the money wasn’t being spent on clothing.
“That’s how it was set up on the books,” said Casini.
Turning to other business, council reminded residents to place their garbage out the night before pick up to help keep it from blowing away or having animals get into it.
The borough has garbage service on Wednesday and recycling the first and third Monday of each night.
Council also agreed to donate bicycles at the police department that have not been claimed within 90 days to a non-profit organization.