Atlanta’s Stimulus Dollars
Fulton county’s cities of Sandy Springs, Milton and Johns Creek and Dekalb County’s Dunwoody will get smaller shares of the Stimulus Package because they are newly formed cities.
The US Department of Justice is doling out money to almost every local law enforcement agency in the country. But the grant is based on three calendar years of Uniform Crime Reports, a statistical crime summary each city compiles annually. None of the three Fulton cities of Sandy Springs, Johns Creek or Milton, or Dekalb’s newly-formed Dunwoody, has been around for three years.
City and county officials project that the cities of Johns Creek, Milton and Sandy Springs will get a combined amount of $200,000. In contrast, Roswell is set to receive $98,000 and Alpharetta will receive $66,000. Fulton County and its other cities have applied for $5.6M in grant money. More money is coming from the Justice Department that these new cities can tap into. Georgia is set to receive another $36M, and almost 60% of that will be be going to local governments.
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