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Pleasant Valley council approves lease option for live-scan fingerprint machine, hears camera rollout update
Summary
The council voted to pursue a lease option for a new live-scan fingerprint machine covered by a state program and heard that Flock camera installation could take about six months; the personnel committee recommended applying for the lease before the program deadline.
Pleasant Valley’s city council voted to pursue a lease option for a new live-scan fingerprint machine through the highway patrol program, and staff said the town’s planned Flock camera installations could take roughly six months to complete.
An agency official told the council the city has two procurement options for the live-scan system: an outright purchase, which the official described as “roughly $17,000 plus, another $3,200-ish dollars for maintenance agreement after the first year,” or a lease option of about $5,250 per year that would include maintenance. The highway patrol administers an expenditure program that can pay up to $6,625 per year toward either option, but the program is reauthorized annually by the legislature and therefore not guaranteed, the official said.
“The personnel committee recommended I go ahead and apply for that option, and we’ve already been approved for it,” the agency official said, recommending the lease option to start service sooner while preserving warranty coverage until all cameras are installed.
A council member moved to authorize the city to proceed with the lease option through the highway patrol (motion record: pursue live-scan lease at approximately $5,002.50); another council member seconded. The motion was adopted by roll call; members answering in the affirmative included Gallagher, Messimer, Jacoby, Scarborough, Moss, Langer and Wilson (as read aloud during the roll call). The council did not record any recorded 'no' votes in the meeting transcript for that motion.
Council members were told that the Flock camera rollout would likely take about six months from kickoff to a camera being operational. Staff said they postponed invoicing until all cameras were installed so warranty and billing would begin once the full deployment is complete.
Next steps: staff will submit the application for the highway-patrol expenditure program and proceed with the lease if the program funding and administrative approvals align; the council’s action authorizes the administration to move forward on that schedule.
