September 7, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 13 Security cameras (continued from page 6) would total $7,000, and SMS Security Systems, LLC of Caldwell has already provided the borough with a $6,640 proposal that would include the equipment and the labor charges for the installation project. Veterans Park has been part of the borough’s park system for over 50 years, the grant application notes. “The park has recently undergone an extensive makeover financed in part from previous grants from the County Open Space program. All four tennis courts and the basketball court have been rehabilitated. We have constructed a playground and comfort station/pavilion and the area has a large open space utilized for soccer and other non-organized sport and passive recreational pursuits.” Improvements to Veterans Park were funded by the following county grants provided in the years indicated: $150,000 in 2005, $75,000 in 2006, and $10,000 in 2007. Waldwick High School’s tennis teams use the tennis courts at Veterans Park, and the borough’s junior soccer programs make use of the open space. “The facility is highly utilized,” the application states. “At any given time you can find multiple activities going on at the site.” When the public hearings were held on the initial park upgrades and later for the installation of the comfort station, several residents said they did not want the area to be lit at night, and no lights were installed at the tennis Left: The back of the comfort station. Graffiti on one of the restroom doors. courts or the basketball courts. “Despite our best efforts, the park has become a teenage hangout and we have received numerous complaints from the neighbors due to acts of vandalism to the comfort station pavilion in the forms of carvings and graffiti,” the application states. The document adds that the borough’s plan is to install the infrared camera monitoring system on a well house adjacent to the park. The camera would pan the property, covering the comfort station, the tennis courts, and the basketball courts. An Internet connection would allow someone in the police department to monitor images being picked up by the camera.