AUBURN - An advanced security system may be in the cards for two city buildings.
City councilors will vote whether to accept grant money to install card readers in selected offices in the police and fire department building and Memorial City Hall.
“It would allow and disallow people to enter certain areas, such private offices - such as my personal office, service areas, the city manager's office and the mayor's office,” Auburn Police Department Chief Gary Giannotta said. “It will also allow us to see when the areas were accessed and who accessed them.”
If councilors give the nod Thursday during their weekly meeting, Cayuga County officials will set up the scanners in the county office building and the two city buildings in the fall, Giannotta estimated.
Brian Dahl, director of the county Department of Emergency Management, applied for the $ 65,000 Homeland Security grant, which would fund the proposed security system at no cost to the city.
The police department already owns equipment to make identification cards for city employees which it can use to make key cards for the security devices.
In other business:
- Councilors will discuss allowing Cornell University Research Foundation Inc. to study energy issues. The city has allotted $ 7,500 from a grant to boost energy efforts. The foundation would research and perform a preliminary market study for the municipality.
- The council will discuss promoting five workers in the fire department and hiring a firefighter. Councilors will decide whether to back-fill the vacancies created by Capt. William Petrosino's death and Chief Michael Quill's retirement. City Manager John Salomone is suggesting the council promote two people from lieutenant to captain and three employees from firefighter to lieutenant. This would leave a spot available for an entry-level firefighter. An entry firefighter costs the city $51,000 including benefits. If left open, Salomone estimated the overtime accrued to cover for the vacancy would cost $75,000.
Staff writer Jessica Soule can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 267 or jessica.soule@lee.net
“It would allow and disallow people to enter certain areas, such private offices - such as my personal office, service areas, the city manager's office and the mayor's office,” Auburn Police Department Chief Gary Giannotta said. “It will also allow us to see when the areas were accessed and who accessed them.”
If councilors give the nod Thursday during their weekly meeting, Cayuga County officials will set up the scanners in the county office building and the two city buildings in the fall, Giannotta estimated.
Brian Dahl, director of the county Department of Emergency Management, applied for the $ 65,000 Homeland Security grant, which would fund the proposed security system at no cost to the city.
The police department already owns equipment to make identification cards for city employees which it can use to make key cards for the security devices.
In other business:
- Councilors will discuss allowing Cornell University Research Foundation Inc. to study energy issues. The city has allotted $ 7,500 from a grant to boost energy efforts. The foundation would research and perform a preliminary market study for the municipality.
- The council will discuss promoting five workers in the fire department and hiring a firefighter. Councilors will decide whether to back-fill the vacancies created by Capt. William Petrosino's death and Chief Michael Quill's retirement. City Manager John Salomone is suggesting the council promote two people from lieutenant to captain and three employees from firefighter to lieutenant. This would leave a spot available for an entry-level firefighter. An entry firefighter costs the city $51,000 including benefits. If left open, Salomone estimated the overtime accrued to cover for the vacancy would cost $75,000.
Staff writer Jessica Soule can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 267 or jessica.soule@lee.net