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TO: Mayor Keis and Members of City Council FROM: Bill Dircks, Public Works Director DATE: May 10, 2016 RE: Installation of Security Cameras at Pioneer Park There were numerous incidents of vandalism at the Pioneer Park building last year. Windows were broken by rocks and/or balls and a picnic table was set on fire. Another window has been broken this year already. The concession area window gate has also been broken into in the past. The cost to repair all of the windows, picnic tables, and gates are over $1,500 in just the past two years. After the spate of incidents last year, staff looked into putting security cameras at the park to help prevent vandalism and make it easier to catch people who may still decide to vandalize the building knowing there are cameras present. It was determined that there was a good line of site to the new public works building, which would allow the Pioneer Park cameras to communicate back to Roseville’s server via an antenna mounted on the roof of the park building and another antenna mounted on the public works building. This eliminates the need to run a fiber optic line all the way to the park building, which would be a significant cost. The antenna set up would also allow for the City to install a Wi-Fi connection at the park if it wanted to do so. The cameras will be monitored by the Public Works Director and can be accessed by smart phone if necessary. There will be 30 days of stored footage, as is the case with the public works building. The cameras only record when there is motion so that should save on the quantity of footage that needs to be stored. They are high quality HD cameras just like those used at the public works building. The quote for installing all of the cabling and other miscellaneous equipment for the cameras is $3,119. The cameras cost about $750 each. There will be eight locations set up for cameras to properly cover the area around the building. Beyond the purchase price there is also an annual license fee of $100 per camera. The City’s annual camera license fees would be $1500 ($800 for Pioneer Park and $700 for the seven existing public works shop cameras). There would also be a one-time cost of about $200 for the wireless antenna work that would need to be completed. The City budgeted $50,000 for security cameras throughout the City in 2016. There have been discussions about installing cameras at City Hall, Spooner Upper Shelter, the Old Fire Hall, and the skateboard park. Staff contacted Mr. Terre Heiser of Roseville IT and asked if putting a large project together would give us any price breaks on the work. He said that there wouldn’t be any benefit to putting a large project together from a price standpoint and it would actually make things more difficult for the IT people to get it set up on their end. 8