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Fairview staff identify alternate site outside city limits for police training; residents voice safety concerns about live-fire range
Summary
City Manager Tom Dougherty told the Fairview Board of Commissioners at a work session that city staff have identified a potential alternate site for a planned police training facility outside the city limits, and he asked the board to allow staff to pursue securing the property and to support funding the project if the purchase is completed.
City Manager Tom Dougherty told the Fairview Board of Commissioners at a work session that city staff have identified a potential alternate site for a planned police training facility outside the city limits, and he asked the board to allow staff to pursue securing the property and to support funding the project if the purchase is completed.
Dougherty said staff and elected officials have spent 30 days reviewing options and that the city is not “married” to the initially proposed site. He described one property on Pine Wood Road, behind a Middle Tennessee Electric substation, as fitting the department’s needs and said he obtained a verbal price from the seller. “I got a verbal quote of what he would sell the property for,” Dougherty said,…
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