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QUINCY, Ill. (AP) — Quincy public school officials will replace aging metal detectors, upgrade surveillance cameras and create a system for monitoring visitors with an $116,310 state grant.
Joel Murphy is the school district's business manager. The Quincy Herald-Whig reports (http://bit.ly/1yIohf4 ) Murphy told the school board's finance committee the grant was a portion of the $172,350 officials sought from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency's school-security grant program. That program is funded with federal money.
Without the extra money officials had to postpone improvements at Adams and Quincy high schools
The new equipment — plus upgrades to each school's doors — will be installed at Berrian, Dewey, Ellington, Madison, Monroe and Washington elementary schools.
The hardware will eventually be moved to five newly constructed elementary buildings over the next five years.
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