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Training center costs call years of promises into question (Cop City in Atlanta)
https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/training-center-costs-call-years-of-promises-into-question/6LT2DM43Z5ERJDUWEICUYOH3CE/In the spring of 2021, the Atlanta Police Foundation announced an attractive deal for city taxpayers. If the city put up $30 million for a public safety training center, the nonprofit and its philanthropic partners would handle the rest of the project’s $90 million price tag.
That promise was repeated month after month, year after year, by one mayor and then the next.
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But that’s not true. And it hasn’t been true for years.
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Last month, city officials publicly acknowledged for the first time what some decision makers have known since at least August 2021 — the actual cost to taxpayers for the facility is expected to be more than double what officials have continually said, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution review of public documents has found.
That promise was repeated month after month, year after year, by one mayor and then the next.
(snip)
But that’s not true. And it hasn’t been true for years.
(snip)
Last month, city officials publicly acknowledged for the first time what some decision makers have known since at least August 2021 — the actual cost to taxpayers for the facility is expected to be more than double what officials have continually said, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution review of public documents has found.
