Barrington spending $19,500 on carts to secure election equipment

Town using money from $23,172 grant

Posted 9/26/24

The Barrington Town Council recently approved the purchase of eight equipment carts for a total cost of $19,150.

At the September Council meeting, Barrington Town Clerk Merrie DeSisto explained …

This item is available in full to subscribers.

Please log in to continue

Log in

Register to post events


If you'd like to post an event to our calendar, you can create a free account by clicking here.

Note that free accounts do not have access to our subscriber-only content.

Day pass subscribers

Are you a day pass subscriber who needs to log in? Click here to continue.


Barrington spending $19,500 on carts to secure election equipment

Town using money from $23,172 grant

Posted

The Barrington Town Council recently approved the purchase of eight equipment carts for a total cost of $19,150.

At the September Council meeting, Barrington Town Clerk Merrie DeSisto explained the bid request. DeSisto said the Rhode Island Board of Elections conducted an assessment and told Barrington officials that they wanted to see the town do a better job securely storing the election polling equipment. She said the town receives polling equipment from the state. 

The equipment is kept inside Barrington Public Schools, which serve as polling locations. The polling equipment storage carts would allow the town to lock up the equipment on the carts, keeping it more secure, DeSisto said. 

DeSisto requested the purchase of eight carts. The Clerk’s office recently received a grant from the RI Office of the Secretary of State for $23,172. DeSisto said the equipment purchase would not require any local funds. 

Two companies submitted bids for the storage carts. Officials said one of the bids did not meet the minimum requirements.

Council members voted 5-0 to approve the bid from Print Elect of New Bern, NC. 

2024 by East Bay Media Group

Barrington · Bristol · East Providence · Little Compton · Portsmouth · Tiverton · Warren · Westport
Meet our staff
Jim McGaw

A lifelong Portsmouth resident, Jim graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1982 and earned a journalism degree from the University of Rhode Island in 1986. He's worked two different stints at East Bay Newspapers, for a total of 18 years with the company so far. When not running all over town bringing you the news from Portsmouth, Jim listens to lots and lots and lots of music, watches obscure silent films from the '20s and usually has three books going at once. He also loves to cook crazy New Orleans dishes for his wife of 25 years, Michelle, and their two sons, Jake and Max.