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Council OKs security and access-control upgrades for city buildings
Summary
The Berkley City Council unanimously approved contracts (subject to legal review and manager approval) to expand card-access controls and install security cameras at City Hall, the library, community center, public safety building and select park restrooms; staff said implementation will be phased with onboarding training.
Council members on March 2 approved contracts to expand card-access and camera systems across multiple municipal buildings, a project staff said grew out of a year-long internal security audit.
Facilities Manager Alex Brown, joined by Lieutenant Cobbernick, said the plan will add card-based access and camera coverage at City Hall, the library, the community center, public-safety facilities and several park restrooms. Brown said the system will conform to the card-access currently used at DPW and will allow staff to program access by location and track building access logs.
"Once everything is installed on all the sites, there will be an onboarding process," Brown said. "It's going to be the same system we're using at DPW now. So it'll be a card access system, and we'll be able to program each employee or each visitor's access based on where they need to be."
Council Member Elrod moved to approve the contracts subject to city-attorney review and approval by the city manager; Council Member Baker seconded. The motion passed by unanimous roll call.
Council members asked about training and implementation complexity; Brown said training will be provided after installation and that the system should reduce the need for multiple physical keys and increase visibility into building access. Brown noted a possible phase two that could include additional biometric features but said the current rollout is card-based.
The contract approval allows staff to finalize purchasing and scheduling; Brown told the council the installations would begin within the next two to three weeks with minimal day-to-day disruption expected.
