Palmerton will apply for a grant that would go toward equipment upgrades for the borough police department.

Borough council on a 6-0 vote Thursday adopted a resolution supporting the application for funding to the Pennsylvania Local Share Act Funding Program. Councilman Kris Hoffner was absent.

The LSA grant application is in the amount of $67,295, and would be used to purchase updated Tasers equipment, new dash cameras and body cameras, and data storage for the police department.

Police have been equipped with the same Taser units since 2009 and have undergone annual training for proper use by a member of the department who is a certified Taser instructor.

Borough manager Donna McGarry said that the department has received several donations recently.

“We are having people make donations to the police department, which is nice to see,” McGarry said. “As proud as we are of our police department, it’s nice to see.”

Funds raised through a chance auction held last month at the Palmerton Community Ambulance Building raised $4,037, as well as another $50 from Leon A. George II School Buses, for a total of $4,087 to be donated to the department for Tasers and body cameras.

The fundraiser was organized by Palmerton United, a Facebook group of bipartisan local citizens.

McGarry said at last month’s meeting that the borough planned to file an LSA grant so every officer would have a Taser.