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West Islip outlines camera upgrades, blue-light lockdown signs and $1M ask to finish fire-alarm work
Summary
School safety director described expanded camera coverage, license-plate readers and blue-light lockdown signage; facilities staff outlined HVAC, kitchen and playground upgrades and said the board will seek an additional $1 million in a capital-reserve proposition to finish fire-alarm replacements (presentation estimate about $1.88M).
Mr. McAlevey, identified in the meeting as the district school safety director, told the board the district has completed multi-year upgrades to exterior camera coverage and added interior cameras where needed. "In OpenOC, we added 11 cameras, 8 exterior cameras, and we also added 3 interior cameras where we thought were needed within the hallways," Mr. McAlevey said, and he reported Bayview had 11 exterior cameras including a license-plate-reader camera for vehicles.
He said the district repurposed cameras at West High School, is installing blue-light lockdown signage at building entrances to inform visitors when a blue-light lockdown is activated, will expand blue…
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