Training Center Costs Call Years Of Promises Into Question
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.
Today, the Atlanta Police Foundation still asks for donations to the project on a fundraising page that says the city will only contribute $30 million to the cause.
But that’s not true. And it hasn’t been true for years.