Louisville council to consider $92,500 camera and server replacement
The proposed purchase would replace about 30 end-of-life cameras and two servers, while a related budget amendment and the project’s final cost remain unresolved.
Louisville City Council is scheduled to consider authorizing up to $92,500 on Aug. 4 for about 30 replacement surveillance cameras and two video-management servers that the city says have reached the end of their useful life.
The proposed Resolution No. 70, Series 2026 would authorize the city to buy the equipment from Dell Technologies through its Camera & DVR Replacement capital project. Approval would authorize the purchase; it would not confirm that the equipment has been bought or installed.
The resolution describes the project as spanning 2025 through 2027. A city capital-improvement-plan form estimates the full project at $115,500, including $105,500 for capital equipment and $10,000 in contingency. It lists planned spending of $27,500 in 2025, $32,500 in 2026 and $55,500 in 2027, and says the request would not add cameras.
The city’s project form says the cameras and two Milestone servers need replacement because of potential malfunctions, inadequate storage and footage-retention requirements. The servers would be resized to support additional cameras in the future, the form says.
The records do not identify the affected facilities or provide an installation date. A June 2026 technology-infrastructure cost-escalation memorandum cited in the resolution identified about $60,000 in higher server, storage and workstation prices across multiple planned capital projects. The city expects to address that increase through a budget amendment at a future council meeting, but the available records do not specify the amendment’s date, fund or amount, or a revised project total. There is no evidence the amendment has been adopted.