The Sandy Springs City Council will vote Tuesday, July 21, on nearly $1 million in contracts targeting road safety and police fleet needs, including engineering work on the crash-heavy Roswell Road corridor.

A $223,750 contract would hire Gresham Smith and Partners for engineering design on the Roswell Road Safety Project, covering the stretch between Cliftwood Drive and Hammond Drive. Gresham Smith was the sole bidder.

The city's Safety Action Plan flagged that segment as a major contributor to crashes citywide. Between 2020 and 2024, Roswell Road accounted for more than one-third of all crashes on Sandy Springs surface streets and more than 40 percent of pedestrian crashes, according to a Modern Mobility Partners study presented to the council in June 2026. The city recorded 11,649 total crashes on local roads during that five-year span, with nearly 90 percent concentrated along just 10 corridors.

The engineering work aligns with the city's Safe Streets 4 Sandy Springs plan, which aims to eliminate fatal and serious-injury crashes on city-owned streets by 2040. The Safety Action Plan prioritizes completing the Roswell Road project within five to 15 years.

Citywide police-reported traffic incidents have declined from 5,566 in 2022 to 4,313 in 2025, according to budget documents, but Roswell Road's share of crashes remains outsized.

The council will also consider a $300,000 contract for a sidewalk connecting the east side of Glenridge Drive to an existing path on the south side of Interstate 285. Sandy Springs and the Fulton Perimeter Community Improvement District will each pay $150,000. A related agenda item would approve $322,000 for right-of-way acquisition to move the sidewalk project forward.

District 6 Councilman Andrew Chinsky signaled support for pedestrian-focused spending at a June 16 council meeting, where he discussed the city's draft Transportation Master Plan. "I'm hesitant to keep spending so much on car-oriented travel thinking it's going to solve the traffic problem when it's not going to," Chinsky said at that meeting.

The council will also vote on purchasing 12 Ford Explorers for up to $597,900 to replace vehicles used by the Sandy Springs Police Department. The cost comes from the department's $1.45 million fleet replacement line in the fiscal year 2027 budget. Staff noted the price quote could change at the end of July.

The Police Department, led by Chief Ken DeSimone, received $34.6 million in the FY 2027 budget, the largest allocation of any city department.

The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. in the studio theater at Sandy Springs City Hall, 1 Galambos Way. Residents can watch live at sandyspringsga.gov/stream.