The Glocester Town Council on Oct. 16 authorized the executive assistant / IT director to be paid the police department overtime rate of $66.81 for work on the body-worn camera program when hours exceed the employee’s 56-hour salary work week.

Chief Joseph Delpre submitted a request explaining the police department’s body-worn camera program is in year three of a five-year Department of Public Safety grant administration agreement for procurement, maintenance and evidence software. The grant allows funds to be used for overtime associated with maintenance, redaction and fulfilling prosecutorial evidence and open-records requests.

The memo noted $14,000 remains available in the grant fund for incurred overtime expenses this year. The council voted to authorize the overtime compensation at the police lieutenant rate for the IT executive assistant when overtime is incurred above the normal salary work week.

The approval permits the town to use grant-eligible funds to pay overtime for the specified camera-program tasks; council members recorded the motion and approved it by voice/roll call.