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HONORING EVA
1969 - Graduates
from Georgia State
University with a
1992 - Galambos
moves to the Grogan’s
Bluff Neighborhood,
2006 - Galambos begins
first term as mayor.
Ph.D. in Economics.
behind the current
location of City Hall.
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2009 - Galambos
re-elected with 84
percent of the vote.
1975 - Becomes
president of
Committee for
Sandy Springs.
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2005 - Sandy Springs |
residents vote to
incorporate. Galambos
elected city’s first mayor.
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2008 - Sandy Springs buys
former Target building for
$8 million, and Galambos
sees it as a potential site
for a future City Hall.
2013 - In April,
Galambos announces
her retirement. Her
last City Council
meeting was Dec. 17.
A. Yes. Not only have the citizens of Sandy
Springs gained a more attractive city, with
better infrastructure and new parks, but they are also
enjoying the pleasures of civic involvement. The en
thusiasm of our residents in participating in our public
life is palpable. The next milestone will be a public
downtown area where our folks can live, shop and en
joy each other, deriving all the benefits of urban life at
its best.
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What has surprised you the most about the
- * city of Sandy Springs in its first eight years?
A. I have been pleasantly surprised by how much
infrastructure the city has been able to install
and afford on the same, identical tax millage we paid
before we became a city. Before cityhood, we lost the
vast majority of our taxes for local services into the
bowels of Fulton County. Now we have a 125-person
police department (vs. 40 with Fulton), and we can af
ford new parks and other amenities.
Did you imagine other cities would follow
so quickly? Is regionalism dead in metro
Atlanta?
A. I never dreamed beyond the creation of San
dy Springs. Once Dunwoody was born, the
pattern was clear. DeKalb County neglected its north
ern tier just as Fulton had neglected us. The fate is the
same.
As for regionalism, I do not think it is dead. How
ever, its main manifestation last year in the TSPOST
debacle showed how it was wrong. It tried to impose
a list of projects from the top down. True, there was a
small group of elected local officials who traded projects
among themselves. But it was a poor show of how a re
gional organization needs to involve the governments
and elected officials who are closest to the people. This
was another lesson that “central planning” does not
work.
What are your plans as you leave office?
It is time for my patient husband to have me
at home more. I do plan to tutor Sandy
Springs third graders in reading. Gov. Nathan Deal
spoke recently in Sandy Springs and reminded us that
workforce development is one of most important eco
nomic development tools, and workforce development
is stymied if a third grader advances without full read
ing skills.
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FOR EVA GALAMBOS,
a true woman of valor
from Sandy & Dave Abrams
A woman of valor-seek her out,
for she is to be valued above rubies.
Her husband trusts her,
and they cannot fail to prosper.
All the days of her life
she is good to him.
She opens her hands to those in need
and offers her help to the poor.
Adorned with strength and dignity,
she looks to the future with cheerful trust.
Her speech is wise,
and the law of kindness is on her lips.
Her children rise up to call her blessed,
her husband likewise praises her:
‘Many women have done well,
but you surpass them all.’
Charm is deceptive and beauty short lived,
but a woman loyal to God has truly earned praise.
Give her honor for her work;
her life proclaims her praise.
— from Proverbs 31
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THANK YOU
MAYOR GALAMBOS
For Your Leadership and Vision in Guiding
our Community
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