Roswell OKs public safety pacts with Milton, Alpharetta
The Roswell City Council has approved agreements with Milton and Alpharetta concerning fire department mutual assistance, hazardous material responses and public safety training.
The Milton agreement provides for automatic aid – assistance dispatched automatically by contractual agreement between the fire departments – and mutual aid, assistance dispatched upon request by one department to another, staff said in a report to the council.
Roswell also approved a supplemental hazardous material emergency response memorandum of understanding with Alpharetta. The document, staff said, “sets forth terms by which both parties involved will provide mutual aid to one another,” with the objective of creating a regional hazmat response team.
Finally, Roswell updated its agreement with Alpharetta on operational cost sharing for the two cities’ Public Safety Training Center. The revised agreement replaces the prior split of 47% Roswell/53% Alpharetta with a 50-50 arrangement, staff said. The FY 2020 approved budget for the training facility is $325,009.
