The event won’t take place until the middle of 2025, but the Cobb Public Safety Department will ask Cobb commissioners this week for $1.589 million for law enforcement and security services for the 2025 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Truist Park.
That request is an agenda item (you can read it here) for Tuesday night’s meeting, and the funding would come from the fiscal year 2025 general fund contingency budget.
Earlier this month Major League Baseball announced the game would be coming to Truist Park, after depriving the Braves as host status for the 2021 event due to a Georgia election law.
Roughly half of the funding for public safety services would be used for security and supplies, and the other half would be used for overtime for personnel from a number of agencies, including police, Sheriff’s Office, fire, emergency services, transportation and Cobb Parks, according to the agenda item.
The All-Star Game festivities will take place over two days in mid-July 2025 at the ballpark at The Battery and the Cumberland area.
By comparison, in 2021, when Truist played host to three World Series games, Cobb commissioners approved roughly $500,000 in overtime, additional security and other measures, including a watch party at the park when the Braves clinched the championship in Houston.
The agenda item for Tuesday’s meeting states that the All-Star game is considered a “heightened awareness status” event by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The agenda item also states that there could be a “significant economic boom” from having the All-Star Game in Cobb County, and cited data from the Baseball Almanac that the event in other cities has generated between $37 million and $190 million.
The commission meeting begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the second floor board room of the Cobb government building (100 Cherokee St., downtown Marietta), and the full agenda can be found by clicking here.
You also can watch on the county’s website and YouTube channels and on Cobb TV 23 on Comcast Cable.
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