Lehighton has agreed to buy more cameras as part of the initiative to update the borough’s surveillance equipment at all buildings.

Borough council last week on a 5-0 vote agreed to purchase surveillance cameras for the Recreation Center and Grove Park, in the amount of $13,446, over the course of the next two years.

Borough Manager Dane DeWire said that to date, the borough used a $93,000 Local Share Account grant to install cameras at the administration building, in the Upper Park and in the Lower Park.

Councilmen Grant Hunsicker and Joe Flickinger were absent.

After the meeting, DeWire said part of that grant paid for transmission equipment to convey surveillance data to the police department, where it could be viewed in real time and stored on-site.

DeWire noted that additional cameras were purchased using the borough’s general fund for inside of administration building, at the police station, and at Baer Memorial Pool.

“With the addition of the cameras at the Grove and in the recreation center, cameras from each of these locations can be viewed from a single platform and in my office,” DeWire said. “The system allows for the addition or removal of cameras on a central platform, an access to cameras can be limited to our discretion.”