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<br /> <br /> <br />Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, May 16, 2011 <br />Page 9 <br />You have already acted on it. Today you got to see why. I think Mike did a great job on that. <br />think we are one of the few towns that are ahead of the curve. <br />Council President Buckholtz stated, I think what came out of Council was that was new <br />construction that requires it. <br />Mr. Marrelli replied, or additions or any other time that they are required to go in, they will be <br />photoelectric. <br />For a plug for this new Committee, Mayor Rinker replied this might be the kind of thing where if <br />the Committee wants to pick it up and explore some alternatives as far as not just only promoting <br />it verbally there may be other ways that we can make this more effective to implement it. Again, <br />that touches upon policy issues and something that Council and Administration can work on <br />together. <br />Council President Buckholtz stated, a number of years ago, I don't remember what item it was, <br />but the Fire Department purchased carbon monoxide detectors and made them available for sale, <br />bought them in bulk and there was a push to get them to the community. I don't remember what <br />it was. <br />Mayor Rinker stated, that's kind of where I was going with the idea. <br />Council President Buckholtz stated we will talk further on this. <br />Lieutenant Girbino added, we are in the process right now of completing the distribution of <br />photoelectric smoke detectors. We received Federal grant money and purchased photoelectric <br />detectors and right now the apartments have installed all but five of those detectors. We gave 252 <br />total. <br />Mayor Rinker stated, it's fair to say, it was focusing on probably a more higher risk because of <br />the common areas that they share, the common walls, construction-wise. But that gets probably <br />15%, 20% of our housing stock? <br />Mr. Marrelli replied, maybe 10%. <br />Mayor Rinker stated, as a policy consideration, if we are going to take this thing to another level, <br />that is what I suggest that we look at it because I suspect the more we make it easy for people, <br />it's going to be more successful. <br />Lieutenant Girbino added, we also applied for another Federal grant to get more photoelectric <br />alarms to be able to provide one for every household. <br />Council President Buckholtz stated, that would be great. Thank you.