This Butler County village may soon get upgrades to its Village Hall thanks largely to an influx of revenue from speed cameras installed last year.

After years of financial struggles, the village is soliciting bids to repair the roof and renovate Village Hall at 268 Whitaker Ave.

“There’s a lot that needs to be done. I believe it’s structurally sound, but it needs a lot of cosmetic work,” councilman Bob Henley said. “We haven’t had the money to do it, but we do now. The traffic cameras are bringing in a lot of money.”

In mid-December of last year, New Miami police had certified more than 9,700 violations since installing two mobile speed cameras in the village Oct. 1 and collected more than $210,000. That’s more than double the $101,300 generated by its police levy and 2012 general fund budget appropriation.

New Miami Police Chief Kenneth Cheek said the one-mile stretch of U.S. 127 that goes through the village has a 35 mph speed limit, but before the cameras went into operation, thousands of vehicles traveling along it daily closer to 50 mph.

The speed camera revenues that the village receives go into its General Fund.

Cheek said some of the revenues that the village has received have already been used to purchase and upgrade computers at the police station as well as installing computers in the village’s police cruisers. In addition, the revenue has also been used to pave the parking lots at Village Hall and at the police and fire departments.

Village officials are still soliciting estimates for the Village Hall renovation project, and no project has officially been approved.

A workshop detailing the particulars of the project will likely be held in March, according to Mayor Patti Hanes. Work could include everything from painting to re-flooring the building to renovating the wood panels in the council room to purchasing more secure locks and repairing the leaking roof.

“Give it a face-lift, it’s horrible,” Hanes said, referring to the exterior and the grounds of the building. “Not just bushes and shrubs, get a sidewalk instead of bricks. It looks pitiful. That whole front end looks like 1960s and 7’0s that hasn’t been touched.”

Hanes said she would also like to install security cameras in the building.

“You can only put off things for so long,” Henley said, referring to the renovations. The village hall was built in 1941 and has not had major work done for decades, he said.

Hanes also wants to get the village its first website to give residents a better way to contact village officials and has already made inquiries about having one designed.