Nearly a year after Atlanta opened a highly contested public safety training center in southern DeKalb County, officials there are now developing a plan for their own to serve police and firefighters.
DeKalb’s Board of Commissioners last week approved spending $500,000 to design and plan a new public safety training center. The funding will comefroma 1-cent special purpose local option sales tax, which, according to the county’s website, is meant to improve “quality of life for residents” and create “stronger, more vibrant communities” through investments in public safety, transportation, recreation and other projects.
“We want to make sure that we have the best trained police officers and firefighters that are providing service to our citizens, and it’s going to start there,” Darnell Fullum, DeKalb’s director of public safety and former fire chief, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution via phone Tuesday…