Alabama Army National Guard facilities management officials on Monday met with city and county officials at Andalusia City Hall to discuss a potential partnership for a new National Guard facility here.
Andalusia Mayor Earl Johnson said he first met with National Guard officials about a year ago and committed that Andalusia would give the Army National Guard the property needed to do the project.
“They were seeking a proposal from us and from Opelika,” Johnson said. “To start with, we’ll put the property up. It’s property we already own in the industrial park. Under federal and state law, you have to give them the property. They need about 40 acres, and we’ve got a plot that works nicely.”
Johnson said the Army National Guard will spend approximately $13 billion over the next 10 years on projects similar to this one.
The mayor and Covington County Economic Development Commission executive director Rick Clifton said the Guard wants to partner with locals to build facilities that will have multiple uses; that is, facilities that will be used not just for the National Guard.
“In some places, they partner with law enforcement or fire departments for training facilities,” Clifton said. Read More>
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