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Committee actions: minutes approved, SPLOST assessment and gun-safe grant approved; advisory-board resolution deferred
Summary
The committee approved minutes and two funding items—SPLOST assessment funds for three fire stations and a PSN microgrant to buy gun safes—voted to defer a police community advisory-board resolution for 30 days and moved remaining items to be held in committee.
The DeKalb County committee recorded several formal actions at the meeting: approval of committee minutes, approval of SPLOST funds for a fire-station assessment, approval of a community-policing microgrant, and a 30-day deferral of the proposed community advisory board for the DeKalb County Police Department.
What passed - Approval of minutes: The committee approved item 2025-1073 (minutes) by voice vote. - SPLOST public-safety assessment: The committee approved use of SPLOST A1 public-safety funds to pay for a renovation/feasibility assessment of Fire Stations 18, 19 and 20 (agenda item listed in the meeting as “20 20 five-ten 10” in the transcript). The item passed by motion and voice vote. - PSN community policing microgrant (gun safes): The committee approved a FY 21–23 Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) community-policing microgrant to purchase gun safes, in the amount shown in the agenda (transcript references $36,963). The motion passed by voice vote.
What was deferred - Community advisory board resolution (item 0390): The committee voted to defer the resolution establishing a permanent community advisory board for DeKalb County Police Department for 30 days while the law department and police draft structure and guidelines.
Other procedural actions - The committee moved and approved a motion to adjourn after the remaining items were held in committee.
Notes on documentation and attribution Transcript-provided item identifiers and amounts were used where available; several motions were passed by voice vote without a recorded roll-call tally in the meeting transcript, so individual vote tallies and mover/second names are not specified beyond what the transcript provided.
Ending: The committee held the remaining agenda items in committee and scheduled follow-up on the deferred advisory-board resolution.
