From WSB…

Channel 2 Action News has confirmed that one person is in custody after shots were fired at a DeKalb County elementary school.

The DeKalb County schoolboard chairman said there was an active shooter at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy. Channel 2 Action News has confirmed with multiple sources that the suspect is a white man in his 20s who was armed with an AK-47 and dressed in black.

City Schools of Decatur wrote this message on their Facebook page…

There is a situation at an elementary school on 2nd Avenue in DeKalb County. This school is not part of the City Schools of Decatur. You may see an increased police presence around the City. Please check your local news for more information.

If you need to get your bearings, McNair Discovery Learning Academy is located south of East Lake Golf Course.  Here’s a map.

After another pre-commission meeting work session to discuss the City Schools of Decatur proposed bond fund to renovate the middle school and high school, As Scott reported in a comment last night…

The Mayor introduced a closing resolution deferring the bond vote for a year and proposing a joint city/CSD committee to explore the less discussed economic “ripples” beyond hard costs — the Freakonomics, so to speak — that may accompany significant system growth. It passed 5-0.

As you can view on the City’s website starting at around the 12 minute mark HERE, Mayor Baskett pre-empted his resolution stating “The school board has very serious issues, and it hasn’t got an easy solution. That said, we have to find a way to work with the school board to move this community forward…”

According to the resolution, blue ribbon committee would be charged with developing a broad-based community education effort estimated student enrollment trends, municipalization and annexation, the impact of commercial and multifamily redevelopment, the facilities master plan, and other topics to be identified by the committee.  The committee would also be charged with developing a process to gather survey and other data that would reflect community opinions for financing improvements AND consideration of financing options.

The commission then talked a bit about next steps and how the blue ribbon committee would be formed, but came to no immediate consensus, as they realized that they needed to speak with the

Over on Decaturish, Dan Whisenhunt has some additional comments from Mayor Baskett after the meeting and a copy of the actual resolution, which the Mayor read in full at the meeting.