Dalton City Council members are scheduled to vote Monday on whether to renew the city’s agreement with Dalton Public Schools for the city to provide school resource officers.
The council members meet at 6 p.m. in City Hall. The meeting will be livestreamed on the city’s YouTube channel.
The contract calls for the police department to provide eight school resource officers (SROs), including one sergeant, to the school system. That’s an increase of one SRO over the seven in the 2023 contract. Two officers will be assigned to Dalton High School. One officer will be assigned to The Dalton Academy/Dalton Junior High School and one will be assigned to Hammond Creek Middle School. Three officers will be assigned to serve the elementary schools. The sergeant will serve as a floater for all city schools and will assist other SROs if needed.
The school system will reimburse the police department 75% of the total costs of seven of the SROs and 50% of the cost of the eighth SRO. When school is not in session, the SROs will serve as patrol officers.
The City Council members are also scheduled to vote on whether to lease property at Heritage Point Park to the school system for $10 a year for a challenge course for the school system’s Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC). A challenge course is a type of obstacle course.
The council members are also expected to vote on:
— A five-year master service agreement with Kimley-Horn and Associates of Chattanooga for engineering and consulting work. The agreement calls for the company to be paid by the hour with the rate depending on the type of employee doing the work.
— A $1.129 million contract with Federal EC of Woodstock for pipe lining.
— A $98,318.80 contract with Keller Outdoor for landscaping.
— An agreement with the Greater Dalton Chamber Foundation for development of a mini-pitch soccer field at the Mack Gaston Community Center.
— Whether to name Will Chappell interim director of the Parks and Recreation Department. Chappell is assistant director. Former director Caitlin Sharpe resigned earlier this month to teach at Jacksonville State University.
— A request by Erik Rojo Aguilar to rezone from heavy manufacturing to high-density residential 0.21 of an acre at 204 E. Matilda St., to build a duplex.
— A request by Todd Phillips to rezone from medium-density residential to high-density residential 1.29 acres on Main Street.
— A request by John Suttles to rezone from heavy manufacturing to rural residential 0.70 of an acre on New Doris Street.
— A request by Jose Eduardo Franco Alejandre to annex 0.17 of an acre at 1236 Frazier Drive into the city as medium-density, single-family residential.