The Jackson Township Council is expected to approve over $6,000,000 in spending tonight, including the issuance of slightly more than $3 million in bonds, to help with government capital improvement expenditures, including a large appropriation to the Jackson Police Department to create its first ever K-9 Unit.
Under the spending ordinance, the police department will receive $1,054,358 which will be spent on “SUVs and equipment for the K-9 program” – a program which the Jackson Police Department does not yet have, but plans to add in the relatively near future.
The police department will also use the funds to purchase non-passenger vehicles and related equipment, riot gear, radars, and to upgrade its police officer locker rooms.
Separately, the ordinance provides $2,964,905 in funding for roadway, drainage, and sidewalk improvements across Jackson, as well as $1,901,024 for the public works department for its various needs, including snow plowing trucks, garbage trucks, and dump trucks.
