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Bedford tables bids for safety upgrades

County seeks to install bullet-resistant glass, doors in county offices

BEDFORD — Bedford County commissioners received two bids to install bullet-resistant glass and doors to the probation and domestic relations offices and the sheriff’s security booth located in the county courthouse complex.

Hagerstown Paint and Glass Co. bid $105,988 for the project, while Clear Security Systems bid $76,740.

“We’ll have those conversations with the judges as far as what they think going forward,” Commissioner Josh Lang said of the bids.

The security upgrades would be paid through a $20,000 grant and the rest of the costs would be covered through “court-related funding,” according to Lang.

Although the county has access to $40,000 through the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania insurance program, half of it was allotted to an electronic tracking system for inmates at the Bedford County Correctional Facility.

“The next step for safety things is we’re talking about new cameras in the building,” Lang said at Tuesday’s meeting.

The commissioners tabled announcing the awarded contractor until the next meeting scheduled for 10 a.m. March 27 in Room 101 at the Bedford County Courthouse.

During the meeting, the commissioners also appointed John Carlin, Nancy Folk and Casey Colledge as members for the Bedford-Fulton joint authority to reconstruct the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike. Fulton County has yet to select authority members.

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