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Budget committee keeps $50,000 surveillance upgrade and tech items after safety debate
Summary
Committee members voted to keep a multi-year surveillance camera upgrade and related website/video licenses in the proposed budget after administrators described limitations of the district's current camera systems and the safety benefits of a unified platform.
RSU 40 administrators and board members debated surveillance and audiovisual upgrades during the budget review and the committee decided to retain a proposed surveillance-camera capital upgrade in the FY2026 recommendation.
Administrators said the district’s current cameras and recording systems are antiquated, use multiple incompatible vendors and make investigations slow. “You go in. You sit down. One camera is five minutes off from one set, is five minutes off from all the others…that takes anywhere from two to three hours with the system that we have right now,” Linda, an…
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