MILL CREEK — Installing surveillance cameras last week completed a laundry list of projects at Mill Creek City Hall intended to improve security and help staff and citizens feel safer.
The video security system includes a closed circuit television system that can hold up to 16 cameras. Five cameras were installed to monitor, and record to a hard drive, activity at City Hall and the police department, which share a building. One camera will monitor the police department’s holding cell, another is positioned outside the entrance of City Hall, two are in the lobby and one is overlooking the Public Works parking lot.
Installing the security system cost about $8,500.
The project was one of six City Hall security upgrade projects earmarked in the city’s capital facilities plan. The council approved a $100,000 budget to pay for these projects for the 2009-10 biennium budget. The projects have totaled approximately $29,700.
Security upgrade projects at City Hall also included:
• $6,700 to replace the front doors, which were damaged from weather stripping.
• $9,700 to upgrade the key card locking system for employees.
• $1,400 to install two exterior lights on the police department’s parking lot.
• $2,400 to improve safety in the holding cell.
• $1,000 to install security barriers on City Hall doors.
City Manager Tim Burns said the upgrades are intended to improve safety and help staff and residents feel safer in the building, although “there were no specific incidences that spurred this.” There has been the occasional angry person who comes to the police department, which shares a lobby with City Hall, but nobody has been violent, he added.
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