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Council approves sale of patrol F‑150 to fund new vehicle and license-plate reader program
Summary
The council approved selling an F‑150 for $55,000; proceeds will fund a new vehicle purchase and contribute $4,000 toward an Axon project and license-plate-reader (LPR) deployment. Police also discussed bus-stop cameras, a crime-watch class and a voluntary property-camera registration.
The Sunbury City Council approved the sale of a police department F‑150 for $55,000 on May 14, with proceeds earmarked for a replacement vehicle and technology upgrades, including license-plate readers.
During the police report, the Police Chief described roughly 788 incidents in April and outlined plans for cameras at about 20 bus stops that would include license-plate readers (LPRs) to capture plates of vehicles committing violations near bus stops. The chief also proposed a week‑long community "crime watch" class and an online form for residents to register exterior property cameras. "I'm not asking for any type of access to your cameras... But knowing where these cameras are, would help with some of our prime activities," the chief said.
Councilman (speaker) moved to sell the F‑150 for $55,000 with those funds to go toward a replacement vehicle; $4,000 of the sale was directed toward the Axon project (LPR system). The motion was seconded and approved on recorded voice/roll-call votes. Council members recorded in the roll call as voting yes included Savage, Barnhart, Martina and Eister.
The council discussed that proceeds from the vehicle sale would be placed back into the fleet fund to purchase the new vehicle and contribute to the LPR deployment. The chief described a planned crime‑watch meeting on May 28 at 5 p.m. at the police station and emphasized that camera registration would not publish camera locations or grant remote access to private systems.
No additional funding allocations beyond the sale proceeds were approved at the meeting; details on LPR vendor agreements, privacy safeguards, retention policies for plate data, or specific installation dates were not provided in the transcript.
