With a $20,000 grant from New York Life insurance company, the Butler YMCA has installed new security measures for its child care program.

Butler YMCA officials on Monday marked the installation of security upgrades for the agency’s child care operation, calling the addition of a high-tech door locking system the final piece of a project that has been on its to-do list for more than a decade.

A $20,000 grant from the insurance company New York Life paid for the upgrades — a fingerprint scanner door locking system and several additional cameras — which are in use.

Francine Mills, the YMCA’s child care director, said the scanner had been “kind of on my bucket list,” since she joined the agency 11 years ago.

The system will help ensure the security of up to 90 children enrolled in the YMCA’s all-day, early childhood education program, which is on the second floor of its North Washington Street facility.

Mills said the upgrades won’t mean any policy or procedural changes for the agency or the building. Those changes — like parents’ fingerprints being scanned to give them access to the child care area — have already been implemented, she said.

“This is really the last piece of the puzzle,” Mills said. “I think it makes parents, staff and children feel more safe.”

The grant was applied for with the help of Ronald D. Jones and Ronald A. Jones, who are Saxonburg-based insurance agents with New York Life and are YMCA board members.

“We felt this was a great use for the (grant) money,” said Ronald D. Jones. “It will do many good things for the overall well-being and security of the children at the Y.”