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The Sandy Springs City Council held a work session on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, at 6:00 PM. The sole agenda item was a presentation on the Schematic Design (SD) pricing and project scope for Fire Stations No. 1 and No. 4, led by Fire Chief Keith Sanders and Dave Wells, Director of Facilities/Capital Construction. Councilmembers discussed the design features, budget, and timeline.
Fire Stations No.1 and No.4 — Schematic Design Pricing
Fire Chief Keith Sanders opened the presentation with a 3-D walkthrough video of the proposed Fire Station No. 4. The project involves the replacement of Fire Station No. 1 (1425 Spalding Drive) with a new 21,618-square-foot facility featuring three drive-through bays and improved health and safety areas (separated gear storage and decontamination), and a new Fire Station No. 4 (5275 Roswell Road), which includes a two-story 21,618-square-foot station and a separate 11,561-square-foot logistics building.
Questions and Council Discussion
The time for convening has arrived. I'd like to call this uh meeting of the Sandy Springs uh City Council to order. Uh the first item is our work session, and we're gonna take a look at the uh fire stations one and four. Chief Sanders. I have with me tonight um Chris Cottle from uh with Hussie Gay Bell, he's the lead architect uh on these projects, as well as John Pickens, who is uh the engineer with and also Sean's not here, but Sean Nicks is also on the team. They're doing a fine job for us. So it's so excited to share with you station four. Uh this is a 3D walk through, and uh, if you want to go ahead and start playing the video, uh we'll go through it. That's Chief De Simone on the motorcycle getting fuel in the back. And mayor, I'd asked them to uh make sure you are out front here, but they forgot to put hair, so I guess it's me. But if you have any questions, we're going through. I'm not gonna stop the video because it's uh it's around 10 minutes, but also go through the station as well. It will it will go upstairs. I mean go in the back to the logistics building and share share you with what that will look like. This is the foyer. What's really remarkable about this walkthrough, it really gives us the ability. This right here will be a uh uh a lounge room where the guys can want to stay downstairs during the day, it really helped with response time. They can come here in the during the daytime, and uh it's closer to the trucks versus having to come down uh the steps or the uh fire pole. This is going into the in that room you just there was the inn uh also that's where the elevator and the bathroom is. This is the uh bay where the apparatus will be sitting. There's other rooms off the side on the on the far left side as you're approaching this door, is where the hot room is where they do all the cleaning. This is the uh physical agility room. There's also going to be some turf out there. They use sleds. We'll also use this area for our uh annual fitness uh parts of the fitness exam. And what I really like about this technology is we can actually go through each room once Chris gives us the direction to do uh to go through and start evaluating each room to make sure that the outlets are correct, uh that all the features that we intended to have in each room are in the correct location. It really gives them an opportunity to make those adjustments should they need uh need to be made. As I shared with you, you know, it's a two-story fire station, so their station life will be up the top here. This is also on the left hand corner. That's where the elevator comes up on the right, and then on the left side, you'll see a classroom, which is also a conference room that'll be shared and open to the public should they want to hold meetings in the facility. And