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HONORING EVA

pages 7-11DEC. 27, 2013 — JAN. 9, 2014 • VOL. 4 — NO. 26

Land grabLegislators growing weary of cityhood movement?

COMMUNITY 2-3

Year in reviewCity debated citizens over numerous issues

COMMUNITY 4-5

King for a dayCelebrate holiday season

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OUT & ABOUT 14-15

Farewell, EvaRep. Wendell Willard sings mayor’s praises

COMMENTARY 6

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Work is under way on two of the city of Dunwoody’s most controversial projects: the redesign of Dunwoody Village Parkway and the second phase of construction on the multi-use trail through Brook Run Park.

Workers began clearing trees from the

center median of the parkway on Dec. 10, and will begin removing the median and putting in erosion control systems in Jan-uary, city Public Works Director Michael Smith said.

� e project is expected to take six to eight

months to complete, he said. � e city plans to narrow the four-lane roadway and add bike lanes and sidewalks in what it calls its “Main Street Project.”

Meanwhile, on Dec. 9, Dunwoody City Council narrowly approved the construction contract for the second phase of the Brook Run Trail, which will add a 1.06-mile seg-

Construction begins on controversial city projects

Our top photo picks for 2013

PHOTOS BY PHIL MOSIER

Reporter Newspapers strives to give readers a variety of in-depth news and community coverage throughout the year, accompanied by compelling visuals. We’ve taken a careful look through the archives and selected some of

our favorite images captured by photographer Phil Mosier over the past 12 months. These include: Above, left, in “Give it a spin,” Ritch Fusakio helps “turn over” the engine on a B-17 aircraft at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport, during the nonprofi t Liberty Foundation’s event. Above, center, “Hitting the fi eld - of screen,” from left, Brooks Bowling, Hugh Carter, Billy Gingrey, Bryce Bowling and Luke Gingrey, enjoy video games before Buckhead Baseball’s Opening

Day festivities. Center, below, “It’s cool in the pool,” Olivia Langell, left, and Caroline Seelke, members of The Branches “Gators” swim team, get ready for action. Right, “Walking on water,” Samantha Black intently listens to

paddleboarding instructions at Morgan Falls Overlook Park. To see more of our 2013 cover photos, go to pages 16-17.

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DeKalb legislators skeptical new city bills will be approved

BY MELISSA [email protected]

Some DeKalb County legislators question whether any of the bills for cre-ating cities in central DeKalb will be ap-proved during the upcoming legislative session.

At a Dec. 19 town hall meeting in Brookhaven, members of DeKalb County’s legislative delegation discussed how to handle the competing e� orts to create new cities.

� ree groups – the Lakeside City Al-liance, the City of Briarcli� Initiative and Tucker 2014 – have all commis-sioned feasibility studies and are angling for legislative approval to make their municipal dreams a reality. � e problem is, all three proposed cities overlap in the area around Northlake Mall.

“How are we going to resolve this mess?” Angela Trosclair of Tucker asked.

“� e question you ask is really some-thing that worries me a lot,” said Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver, D-Decatur. “We’re about to do some serious dam-age.”

Rep. Tom Taylor, R-Dunwoody, said he’s not sure there will be enough time to untangle the mess before the 40-day

session of the General Assembly wraps up. Due to earlier primary elections this year, the Legislature will likely convene sometime in late April, Taylor said.

“We’ve got an extremely compressed session,” Taylor said. “If any of these comes up – and I say if – because there’s a certain level of DeKalb and Fulton fa-tigue [in the Legislature] … if it’s not es-sential, I don’t know that it’s going to happen this session.”

Rep. Mike Jacobs, R-Brookhaven, said he thinks the chaos surrounding the cityhood bills could be their demise.

“Frankly, I can’t tell you what’s go-ing to happen,” Jacobs said. “I think it makes the process more di� cult, partic-ularly this year.”

Oliver said she thinks there needs to be a cohesive discussion or planning process for potential new cities and an-nexations proposed by existing cities.

“I think that discussion needs to go together in some way,” Oliver said. “Ev-erything in my district is subject to one new city or another.”

Jacobs said he doesn’t favor any sort of moratorium or master planning pro-

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cess. He thinks if the bills aren’t ready, they won’t be approved.

“It may be self-correcting,” Jacobs said.

Rep. Karen Bennett, D-Stone Moun-tain, said she’s concerned about the ef-fect the cityhood e� orts could have on her constituents, even though they aren’t included in any of the boundaries.

“I represent a signi� cant number of people in unincorporated DeKalb and we have no voice,” she said. “At the end of the day we don’t want more damage.”

� ere’s also another proposed city e� ort in south DeKalb County, which proponents would like to be called the city of Stonecrest.

Deborah Jackson, the mayor of Li-thonia, told the legislators that propos-al concerns her.

“While we support the establishment of cities, we are concerned about this movement that seems to be a land grab, and have an impact on existing cities,” Jackson said.

She said the proposed city of Stone-crest, “surrounds Lithonia and chokes us.”

Brookhaven City Councilwoman Rebecca Chase Williams said her city stands behind groups hoping to create their own cities this year just south of Brookhaven’s borders.

“As the newest city in DeKalb, we support the other cityhood e� orts. It’s a little more complicated with more than one city coming forward,” Wil-liams said. “We’re � nding local control and providing services closer to the peo-ple has been working very well for us.”

Recently released studies show pro-posed new cities in central DeKalb Coun-ty would be � nancially viable. � ree new cities – Tucker, Briarcli� and Lakeside -- have been proposed in the central DeKalb area. � eir proposed boundaries overlap in the area around Northlake Mall.

Proponents of the city of Lakeside in November released a study showing their city was � nancially feasible. Backers of the other two cities released their own, separate studies in December.

According to a study by the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Geor-gia State University released Dec. 21, the Tucker community, if incorporated into a city, would have estimated annual revenue of approximately $16.6 million and annu-al expenses of approximately $13.3 million.

� e City of Briarcli� Initiative report-ed Dec. 17 that its feasibility study, con-ducted by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Geor-gia, predicts a city of Briarcli� would have annual operating expenditures of $37,013,278, while revenue would be $54,432,544.

� e Lakeside City Alliance said Lakeside would have annual expens-es of $29,909,347 and revenues of $35,245,527.

–Collin Kelley and Melissa Weinman

Studies fi nd new cities feasible

MELISSA WEINMAN

From left, Rep. Mike Jacobs, R-Brookhaven, Sen. Fran Millar, R-Dunwoody, Rep. Howard Mosby, D-Atlanta and Rep. Tom Taylor, R-Dunwoody, spoke to residents at a meeting of the

DeKalb County legislative delegation in Brookhaven.

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Year in reviewWhat 2013 was about, for Dunwoody

By Joe Earle | [email protected]

City projects take offIn his State of the City Address in February, Mayor Mike Davis announced,

“It’s time for us to act.” The city had spent its early years planning, he said, and in 2013, “our goal is to turn ... our vision into reality.” Soon city contractors were at work all over town. They built a 12-foot wide, concrete multi-use trail through the forest in Brook Run Park. The city built new parks in the Project Renaissance multi-use development, as city officials saw it as a way to turn ill-used properties into new play areas and homes. By year’s end, work was under way to transform Dunwoody Village Parkway into a narrower, more cyclist- and pedestrian-friendly road.

Andrea Sneiderman Just days before her July murder trial was scheduled

to begin, DeKalb District Attorney Robert James an-nounced that he would drop the most serious charg-es against Andrea Sneiderman. Sneiderman had been charged with conspiring to kill her husband, Rusty Sneiderman. Andrea Sneiderman’s former boss, Hemy Neuman, was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for shooting Rusty Sneiderman in front of a Dunwoody day care center. Andrea Sneiderman’s trial proceeded on the remaining perjury charges, and a DeKalb Coun-ty jury found Sneiderman guilty of 9 of the 13 counts

against her, such as lying under oath and concealing evidence. She was sen-tenced to serve five years in prison.

Two incumbents re-elected while one outsider claims seat

After a divisive election that yielded public complaints about city proj-ects and city officials’ perceived lack of communication with residents, Dun-woody’s voters responded with mixed messages. The two incumbents who sought re-election – Councilmen Denny Shortal and Doug Thompson – were returned to their council seats. But challenger Jim Riticher, one of three candi-dates who ran together and said they wanted a “clean sweep” of the council and a change in city direction, won the only seat with no incumbent on the ballot. After winning re-election with 51 percent of the vote, Thompson said the race had been “so close that I don’t think either side can think their platform was the consensus opinion of the majority of Dunwoody.”

Bonser retires from councilCity Councilwoman Adrian Bonser, who was

elected as one of Dunwoody’s original city coun-cilors and has held her post since, did not seek re-election, citing health reasons. During 2013, Bonser clashed at times with other council mem-bers and Mayor Mike Davis. After a council re-write of the city procedures for handling ethics complaints against city officials, a complaint filed against Bonser – which she often had described publicly as being politically motivated – was fi-nally heard and dismissed as “frivolous.” In her fi-nal council meeting, Bonser asked the city to re-imburse her for her legal fees defending herself. Other council members agreed she should be repaid the $1,777 her legal defense cost her.

Opposition risesAs the city moved forward with its plans, yard

signs sprouted all over Dunwoody attacking them. Some criticized the removal of trees to make way for the new path through Brook Run Park. Others objected to the city’s plan to rebuild Dunwoody Village Parkway or to a stalled proposal to consid-

er building a roundabout at the intersection of Vermack and Womack roads. The people behind the signs organized a new, grassroots group calling itself Save Dunwoody. Like-minded folks packed meetings of the City Council and the city Charter Commission to complain about the direction being taken by city government. In the fall, the group coalesced around candidates for City Council seats who claimed they wanted to oust incumbents and change the city’s direction.

In Dunwoody, 2013 turned into a cranky year. Many residents found something to complain about, whether it was removing trees to make way for a 12-foot-wide, concrete trail through the forest at Brook Run Park or moving the dog park from one spot in Brook Run to another.

Dissatisfaction showed in odd places. Yard signs decrying city projects sprout-ed on busy roadsides. Church halls filled with people who wanted to take over the school system from DeKalb County and start their own city system. City govern-ment meetings turned into lecture halls. The Dunwoody Charter Commission

had to ask for a bigger meeting room as its gatherings, which promised little more than sleepy civics lessons, turned into pointed, heated debates on the city’s future.

But not everyone was angry all the time. Two incumbents seeking re-elec-tion to City Council held their seats.

Hundreds of residents showed up to eat from food trucks during a new pro-gram at Brook Run called “Food Truck Thursdays.” And when the city formally opened the first phase of the Brook Run trail with a parade, dozens of kids and parents showed up with decorated bikes and wagons to celebrate.

City riles dog park fansThe city’s plans to re-

make the dog park in Brook Run Park drew growls. City officials said the trees shading the cur-rent 4-acre park have been damaged by dogs, and the soil has been impacted by constant use. They pro-posed moving the park to another location within Brook Run and managing the park to protect it from overuse. Dog park fanciers responded by packing City Council meetings to complain that the changes raise safety issues because the new park is near a playground and a skate park.

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DeKalb school board members

replacedIt was a tumultuous year for

the DeKalb County Board of Ed-ucation. In February, Gov. Na-than Deal removed six mem-bers of the school board after a regional accrediting agency put the school system on accredita-tion probation. A report from the Southern Association of Col-leges and Schools cited the school board members with financial mismanagement and meddling in the operations of the schools. Interim Superintendent Michael Thurmond, a former labor com-missioner and state legislator, was brought on to help lead the struggling school system.

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Eight years…wow, it’s hard to believe. It seems more like two years, rather than eight, since Sandy Springs became a city.

But, what I want to talk about is our mayor, Eva Galambos, and the great leadership we’ve had from her. To have us come out of the gate as not only the talk of the state, but nationally and even internationally.

Hardly a week goes by that she isn’t being interviewed by someone asking about how we have accomplished all that we’re doing as a new city, especially through private compa-nies contracting for services.

Eva envisioned long before we became a city we could be di� erent. What she meant was, Sandy Springs could provide city services at a higher quality and lower price than compa-rable governments, and that’s exactly what has been accom-plished.

Her leadership has kept our city true to its core services and freed up millions of dollars for capital improvements so sorely needed in our community.

Look at what has been accomplished in so many areas un-der her leadership. Really too numerous to start listing, but one in particular that stands out is parks and recreation: Mor-gan Falls Overlook Park, youth sports activities, partnering with the public schools to use the playgrounds for the pub-lic, and on and on.

Go to the city webpage [www.sandyspringsga.org/City-Departments/Recreation-and-Parks] and just scroll through all the programs o� ered by the city to this community - most of which would have never been available but for the fact we became a city.

Having long-term vision is di� cult for public o� cials, yet Eva has met this challenge. She leaves the city with a cash re-serve of $32 million, and we began in 2006 with $0 in the bank - doing so while we weathered the worst economic time

in our memory. How was this done? It was done through great city leadership, led by Eva.

When people ask me about Eva and what kind of person she is, I explain she is the most charming and engaging person - she nev-er knows a stranger. But don’t ever think you can pull something over on her. As she listens to your pro-posal she will in a kind way explain what de� ciencies she sees in your approach, and why.

After working with Eva over the years, it’s easy to tell when she has made a decision. She sti� ens her neck, lowers her chin against her chest and gives a very compelling explanation of why she agrees or does not agree with you.

So, due in great measure to Mayor Eva Galambos, our city has been launched, and is on a chartered course continuing the delivery of services which enhance our lives, add value to our properties, and make us proud to tell others we live in Sandy Springs.

She may no longer be mayor, but the foundation she has prepared will sustain our city far into the future, with the new leadership continuing the course. Yes, she is receiving much deserved recognition for her years of work on our behalf, but the greatest tribute we can pay her is to not let our heritage of this great city be diminished.

� ank you, Eva, and Godspeed.

Rep. Wendell Willard of Sandy Springs represents District 51 in the Georgia House of Representatives and serves as the city of Sandy Springs’ attorney.

Eva, it’s hard to say goodbye

REP. WENDELL WILLARD

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On the record: A year in quotesHere are some of the things people in Reporter Newspapers communities had to say in 2013.

“After two years of meeting and planning, we have our � rst tangible piece of the trail, and it feels pretty great.”

–Denise Starling, executive director of Livable Buckhead, on the proposed trail along Ga. 400, in May.

“We realize that many of our residents would prefer to keep the landscape free of additional billboards. While I agree, we must adhere to the law.”

–Sandy Springs Mayor Eva Galambos, explaining why new billboards were appearing around the city, in July..

“I think you could sum it up by saying there doesn’t seem to be a preponderance of people saying they’re so concerned about this issue that it needs to be addressed immediately.”

–Brookhaven resident Bill Roberts, on the city’s ongoing legal battle with the Pink Pony, an adult entertainment club, in September.

“One of the challenges we have with our dog park is it is re-gional in nature. � at’s a problem. When people say to me, ‘But we love it so,’ I say, ‘Go home to your communities and repli-cate what you love.”

–Dunwoody City Councilwoman Lynn Deutsch, on the controversy surrounding the city’s dog park, which city o� cials want to move from one location to another within Brook Run Park, in December. � e move has drawn strong opposition from dog park users.

“A year to the day that the citizens voted to incorporate the city of Brookhaven, they’ll see their own police cars patrolling. � at’s a signi� cant milestone.”

–Brookhaven Mayor J. Max Davis, announcing the start of the city’s police department, in July.

“We get the bar bill, but we don’t get a drink.”–Atlanta City Councilwoman Yolanda Adrean, on the e� ects of

development on community borders, in September.

“I never liked the logo, and I think there are a lot of people who agree. But I dislike spending money to change the logo just three years after council adopted it. I dislike that even more.”

–Dunwoody City Councilman Terry Nall, on a decision not to spend $40,000 to develop a new city logo, in October.

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Eva’s way: Sandy Springs mayor never took ‘no’ for an answer

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Mayor Eva Galambos fought for the city for “many, many years” and “never gave in.”

BY DAN [email protected]

City Councilman Tibby DeJulio pulled his friend Mayor Eva Galam-bos to his side as they stood before a larger-than-usual crowd in the council chambers. It was Dec. 17, the night of Galambos’ last council meeting as mayor of Sandy Springs.

DeJulio and the mayor have been friends for years. Th ey worked to-gether and turned the community of Sandy Springs into a city. DeJu-lio, like many of Galambos’ friends, was also her loyal foot soldier in the march toward cityhood.

“When you work with Eva, there is no compromise with quality. Ev-erything has to be done right. Of course, it has to be done right this min-ute,” DeJulio said with a smirk. “Th ere’s a wrong way, there’s a right way, and there’s Eva’s way.”

At the December council meeting, DeJulio told the mayor that the road leading up to City Hall will be named “Galambos Way.” It’s fi tting tribute for a leader who wins more arguments that she loses. In 2005, she won the mother of all her arguments when 94 percent of Sandy Springs residents voted to incorporate. She was also elected the city’s fi rst mayor.

Th e mayor remains a popular fi gure, winning re-election in 2009 with 84 percent of the vote. Her offi ce gives her power and her reputation gives her infl uence. Galambos is not shy about using either; defying her means chal-lenging one of the toughest, smartest Georgia politicians.

Galambos said the politician she most admires is former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Th atcher, a leader so uncompromising her critics dubbed her “Th e Iron Lady.”

“She had determination and she fought for what she believed,” Galambos said. “She was able to change how things were going in Great Britain, so I think she was a wonderful role model.”

While she will forever be known as Sandy Springs’ fi rst mayor, it is one of the least remarkable things about her. She’s a Jewish-German immigrant. Her fi rst memories are walking down a street with her mother in Berlin. Her

father was a judge in Germany who lost his job when the Nazis rose to power. He escaped with his family to Ita-ly, and from there fl ed to the U.S. in 1939. She spoke only a “spattering” of English when she arrived in Georgia, but in fi ve years she would graduate as valedictorian of her class at Athens High School.

She obtained a master’s degree and a Ph.D. at a time when few women were expected to have careers out-CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

Sandy Springs Mayor Eva Galambos, who leaves offi ce Jan. 7, was not only the founding mayor of the city in 2005 but also an inspirational fi gure for the startup of other new cities in Atlanta’s northern suburbs—including Dunwoody and, most recently, Brookhaven. In this special section, we review her remarkable career and public life.



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1928 – Galambos born in Berlin,

Germany.

1939 – Galambos immigrates to the United States, to Athens, Georgia.

1933 – Galambos’ family leaves

Berlin for Genoa, Italy.

1944 – Graduates from Athens High and was the valedictorian that year.

1949 – Marries John Galambos, receives master’s degree in

Industrial Relations from the University

of Illinois.

1960 – Moves to Sandy Springs to a house on Trimble Road.

1948 – Graduates from the University of Georgia with a

bachelor’s in Business Administration.

1954 – Eva and John Galambos have the fi rst

of three children.

Mayor Eva Galambos: Creation of city high on ‘satisfaction list’

Q. What accomplishments are you proudest of?

A. Other than my three wonderful children, the creation of our new

city of Sandy Springs has given me more satisfaction than any other activity in which I was engaged.

Q. What has been your biggest dis-appointment?

A. I regret that during my two terms we have not succeeded in lower-

ing the ridiculous 21 percent penalty per gallon on water that Sandy Springs users pay the Atlanta Watershed Department. Th e delay in addressing this serious inequi-ty is a result of (1) the intransigence on the part of two Atlanta mayors to negotiate on this matter, and (2) the incredible hold-ups in federal courts. Our city attorney is ready to deal with this matter in State Court, and it is my great hope that we will gain equity in the coming months.

Q. Was the creation of the city of Sandy Springs worth the strug-

gle?



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Her husband trusts her,and they cannot fail to prosper.

All the days of her lifeshe is good to him.

She opens her hands to those in needand 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:

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1975 – Becomes president of

Committee for Sandy Springs.

2005 – Sandy Springs residents vote to

incorporate. Galambos elected city’s fi rst mayor.

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.

1969 – Graduates from Georgia State University with a

Ph.D. in Economics.

1992 – Galambos moves to the Grogan’s Bluff Neighborhood, behind the current

location of City Hall.

2006 – Galambos begins fi rst term as mayor. 2009 – Galambos

re-elected with 84 percent of the vote.

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. Th e en-thusiasm of our residents in participating in our public life is palpable. Th e next milestone will be a public downtown area where our folks can live, shop and en-joy each other, deriving all the benefi ts of urban life at its best.

Q. What has surprised you the most about the city of Sandy Springs in its fi rst eight years?

A. I have been pleasantly surprised by how much infrastructure the city has been able to install

and aff ord 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.

Q. 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. Th e 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 offi cials who traded projects among themselves. But it was a poor show of how a re-gional organization needs to involve the governments and elected offi cials who are closest to the people. Th is was another lesson that “central planning” does not work.

Q. What are your plans as you leave offi ce?

A. 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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side of the home. With her intellect, and ambition, she could’ve been almost any-thing she’d wanted. She moved to Sandy Springs in 1960 with her young family.

“We wanted a large lot, and we want-ed to be where there was plenty of room around us,” Galambos said. “When we moved on Trimble Road, there was a 14-acre site next to us with cows. It was the edge of development.”

Galambos grew frustrated as develop-ment started cropping up in the com-munity around her.

“I realized how mistreated we were by Fulton County, and realized that was not what I expected from local govern-ment,” Galambos said. “Th at made me passionate about protecting our neigh-borhoods. We were being inundated with gas stations and commercial devel-opment at every corner.”

Th at was the beginning of what would become a decades-long fi ght. Galambos became president of the Committee for Sandy Springs in 1975. Th e eff ort to incorporate was also a po-litical struggle, pitting black Democrats in the state Legislature against white Re-publican lawmakers from the suburbs.

Galambos said when she was young-er she identifi ed as a Democrat, but now identifi es as a Republican. She and her husband John, who worked as a physi-cian, resented how government spent taxpayer money.

“Th e thing that really brought about the change was when we started paying huge income taxes and we realized how much of our income was being redis-tributed,” Galambos said. “Th at’s what turns liberals into conservatives. When they see how the money is wasted, you get a diff erent philosophy.”

Galambos had a knack for recruit-ing talented allies in her fi ght against big government. She reached out to Kar-

en Meinzen McEnerny around 2001 for help when the state Transportation Department was considering a contro-versial plan to realign Roswell Road. McEnerny was elected to the city’s fi rst council in 2005, along with Galambos.

Over the years, their relationship showed signs of strain as McEnerny pushed for policies that Galambos didn’t support. Th e councilwoman frequently found herself in the voting minority on city council.

“Eva is somebody to never underes-timate,” McEnerny said. “She is one of the most focused, hardworking women I have ever had the opportunity to meet.”

Trisha Th ompson-Fox, a member of the Sandy Springs Council of Neighbor-hoods, fi rst met Galambos in the 1990s. Galambos enlisted her to fi ght zoning in Fulton County to protect Sandy Springs from overdevelopment.

Th e more time Galambos spent as mayor, the more frequently she found herself at odds with the Council of Neighborhoods. She was criticized for votes in support of commercial and resi-dential developments that some council members opposed.

Galambos said her view on protect-ing neighborhoods has not changed over the years.

“I still absolutely cherish the neigh-borhoods and want to maintain them as they are, but when you’ve got commer-cial development that isn’t impinging on a neighborhood, you have to under-stand a developer’s viewpoints,” Galam-bos said. “I don’t think the Council of Neighborhoods often listens to the de-velopers.”

Fox said that the friction between Galambos and the Council of Neigh-borhoods hasn’t gotten in the way of her relationship with the mayor.

“We have not always seen eye to eye, but I respect her opinions and her abil-

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Eva’s way: Sandy Springs mayor never took ‘no’ for an answer

Mayor Eva Galambos enjoys herself at a party thrown in her honor at Heritage Sandy Springs on Dec. 8.It’s been said that “when you work with Eva, there is no compromise with quality. Everything has to be done right... There’s a wrong way, there’s a right way, and there’s Eva’s way.”Galambos has remarked that the politician she most admired was former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, known as “The Iron Lady.” “She had determination and she fought for what she believed,” Galambos said. “She was a wonderful role model.”

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Th e story is told every time a new city forms in Georgia.

According to Sandy Springs May-or Eva Galambos’ autobiography, “A Dream Come True: My Very Good Life,” state Sen. Vincent Fort (D-Atlan-ta) once said “Pigs will fl y when Sandy Springs is a city!”

Since then, the fl ying pig has become a symbol of Georgia’s new city move-ment. Sandy Springs regularly holds meetings in the Flying Pig Boardroom.

Galambos, retiring as mayor, received a statue of a fl ying pig as a parting gift. When residents in Brookhaven voted to incorporate in 2012, state Rep. Tom Taylor brought a toy fl ying pig to the victory party.

But Fort says the story is just not true.Fort said recently he never said any-

thing about fl ying pigs. He said to his knowledge, no one in the Democratic Party said it. Fort said the quote is most likely an “urban myth.”

“Whoever is saying that is misre-membering … ,” Fort said.

Galambos referred questions about the fl ying pig to state Rep. Joe Wilkin-son (R-Sandy Springs), who said he was present 13 years ago and heard Fort say it. Wilkinson said Fort made the com-ment with a chuckle, in a jovial way, when Wilkinson brought up the subject of Sandy Springs during a gathering of the Fulton County delegation.

“We were discussing many things, but of course, I was pushing Sandy Springs, and we started talking about stuff and the comment was made,” Wilkinson said.


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ities, and I hope she respects my dedi-cation to the mission she set out,” Fox said.

Even Galambos’ biggest political foes have a grudging respect for her abilities.

State Sen. Vincent Fort, D-Atlanta, was one of the most high-profi le oppo-nents of Sandy Springs incorporating. He said he’s still not convinced that the city, with its unique model of outsourc-ing public services to private companies, is the success Galambos and her sup-porters claim.

Th ere’s no doubt in his mind about the caliber of his opponent, however.

“You know, she is a worthy adversary. I’ll say that,” Fort said. “I respected her energy and focus and determination.”

Galambos’ focus and determination has won her respect, but also led to accu-sations that she retaliates against people that disagree with her. In 2011, for ex-ample, she convinced the council to de-lay buying right of way for a streetscape project because some property owners

along the road wanted to rent space to billboard companies.

DeJulio said many people have the wrong impression of his friend.

“She has fought for the city for many, many years, and she never gave in, and she has given that appearance of being tough,” DeJulio said. “But she’s also a very giving and a very caring person. She cares more for the people of Sandy Springs than you can imagine.”

She showed rare emotion during the Dec. 17 city council meeting.

Galambos read a poem she’d written about her fellow council members. It was a tender moment from someone not known for being sentimental.

She’s less poetic when it comes to dis-cussing her own legacy.

When asked what she’d like people to remember her for, Galambos didn’t fl at-ter herself.

“I don’t prescribe what they should remember about me,” Galambos said. “Th at’s up to them.”

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Th e day, celebrated in Mexico and throughout Latin America and South America, marks the point in the Biblical story of the birth of Jesus when the three wise men, or kings, arrived with gifts to honor the newborn.

“It is a very important tradition with-in the Mexican culture,” said Gonza-lez-Lamberson, who is of Cuban heri-tage but grew up in a community with Hispanic families from many countries, and works as executive director of the Brookhaven-based Instituto de Mexi-co, Inc.

In some homes that decorate for the holidays with nativity scenes – the table-top displays that usually include fi gures of Mary, Joseph, shepherds and angels – the fi gures of the kings were not added until Th ree Kings Day, Gonzalez-Lam-berson said. At times between Christ-mas and Th ree Kings Day, the fi gures of the kings might be placed in rooms other than the one containing the nativ-ity scene so children could imagine the Kings are on their journey, she said. In some families, children received presents on Th ree Kings Day.

For the past 11 years, the nonprof-it group Gonzalez-Lamberson directs has put together a public celebration of Th ree Kings Day. Organized to dissem-inate the art and culture of Mexico, the institute works to “keep traditions alive within the Mexican population and also create a friendship bridge between the Mexican and non-Mexican popula-tions,” she said.

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Above, right, in “Snap, crackle and pop,” which ran Nov. 15-Nov. 28, Sammy Heetderks, 6, left, and sister Hannah, 9, play in a large pile of leaves at their Brookhaven home.

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Amelia Cole, senior The Galloway School

By the end of high school, Ame-lia Cole will have received a dozen var-sity letters for her participation on Th e Galloway School’s soccer, basketball and cross country teams.

Cole’s athletic achievements put her in the running for the special 12-letter award, a rare achievement in Galloway history.

“Only one girl got the award last year,” Cole said. “It’s really not that com-mon for people to earn so many letters.”

Excellence in the athletic arena has always been her goal, but Amelia didn’t always have the 12-letter award to work toward until high school.

“I’m not even sure I knew about the award until sometime in freshman year,” she said. “But when I found out about it, it became my goal to get the award,” Cole said.

Cole had a strong foundation for the skills she developed as an athlete and student at Galloway. She began playing soccer at the age of 3, and it has become an integral part of who she is.

“I started going to Galloway before I was 3, so everyone knows me there. I have an older sister so they always knew me and they’ve always supported me,” Cole said.

One of her supporters is her for-mer soccer coach, Edgar Flores. Flores was her sister’s coach as well as Ame-lia’s coach in her freshman year, and is a close family friend. Flores now coaches at Dunwoody High School but has re-mained an important member of Cole’s support system.

“He was my coach, but he’s also a friend. He gave me a lot of advice. He always tells me to play with heart and fi ght for what I believe in,” Cole said.

Flores described Amelia as “fast and fearless,” and a strong competitor. “She was always competing – with herself, with her sister, to make the team better,” Flores said. “She’s a unique athlete ... If Galloway has a Hall of Fame, someday she’ll be in it.”

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Amelia plans to attend Elon Uni-versity in North Carolina in the fall. She intends to keep playing soccer and to major in Special Education or Early Childhood Education.

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‘Last Dance’ marks end of an era for Chamblee High buildingBY MOLLIE SIMON

Chamblee Charter High School stu-dents, parents and alumni threw their old school building a goodbye party be-fore its scheduled demolition over the coming winter break.

On Dec. 13, the Chamblee Par-ent Teacher Student Association held a “Last Dance” in the high school gym.

“We did this so that people would have a really good last memory of the building and the people who have gone here,” said former Chamblee Governance Council Chair Belinda Wedgwood.

The idea for the event came together in October, and the organizers reached out through Facebook to encourage alumni in the area to attend. The goal for the evening was to raise around $5,000 for school equipment and supplies.

“Many of the active parents in the school were concerned about increased needs during the move into the new building, so we wanted to think of a cre-ative way to support the teachers and students,” said Chamblee PTSA presi-dent Lisa Thule.

The high school building, construct-ed in 1963 with additions in 1964, 1967, 1971, 1975 and 1997, has been used for a large part of the school’s his-tory. Chamblee High marks its centen-

nial in 2017. Students will move in January into

a new academic building. New athletic fields and performing arts facilities are scheduled to open at the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year.

The Dec. 13 party featured a jazz cafe, the dance, and the opportunity to add hand-drawn graffiti to a cafete-ria wall. Local businesses contributed to the event.

“A high school should really be a cen-tral draw to the community, and I hope that people will want to be involved in what happens at the new school,” said Wedgwood.

The dance brought some multi-gen-eration Chamblee High families to the school. Sophomore Coen Williams, who played tenor sax and trombone with the jazz band, shared the occasion with his dad, a 1986 graduate.

“I still look back on high school fondly, and I have remembered so much just since walking back in the doors [for the dance],” said Erin McNicholas of the class of 2004.

Mollie Simon is a senior at Chamblee Charter High School and a student intern with Reporter Newspapers.

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Above, students, parents and teachers threw the old Chamblee

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BURGLARY 4300 block of Dunwoody Park – A burglary

to a residence, using forced entry, resulted in the theft of a laptop and costume jewelry, and was reported on Dec. 9; a burglary to a residence, using forced entry, resulted in the theft of a laptop, TV and jewelry, and was re-ported on Dec. 9.

4900 block of Glaze Drive – A burglary to a resi-dence, using forced entry, resulted in the theft of a shot-gun, rifl e, lap-top, coins and a safe, and was reported on Dec.10.

2300 block of Dunwoody Crossing – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, resulted in the theft of cash, a TV and video games, and was reported on Dec. 12.

4300 block of Georgetown Square – A bur-glary to a non-residence, using forced en-try, resulted in the theft of cash, fi nancial records and a laptop, and was reported on Dec. 12; a burglary to a non-residence, using

forced entry, resulted in the theft of cash and stamps, and was reported on Dec. 13.

1900 block of Calder Court – A suspicious person was reported on Dec. 13.

100 block of Perimeter Loft Circle – A burglary to a non-residence, without us-

ing forced entry, re-sulted in the theft of computer equip-ment, and was re-ported on Dec. 15.

100 block of Perimeter Center

Place – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, resulted in the theft of an iPad mini, two TVs and a Wii system, and was report-ed on Dec. 17.

ASSAULT 4600 block of Ridgeview Road – Simple as-

sault/battery was reported on Dec. 10.

4300 block of Dunwoody Park – Assault through intimidation was reported on Dec. 10.

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� 2300 block of Dunwoody Crossing – Simple assault/battery was reported on Dec. 13; assault through intimidation was reported on Dec. 16.

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A 45-year-old Roswell woman has been charged with impersonating a Dunwoody police officer.

Dunwoody police were contacted Nov. 21 by a resident of Milton who said he had received a phone call from people who claimed to be Dunwoody de-tectives and a woman who asked for personal infor-mation. Dunwoody police said they didn’t make that call.

When a Dunwoody detective called a suspect’s phone number and identified himself, a woman who answered claimed she was Dunwoody Police Detec-tive Annette Davis, police said in a press release.

“The suspect questioned why she had never met the detective if he worked for Dunwoody police, then ended the conversation,” the press release said.

Dunwoody police said detectives located Annette Davis, who on Dec. 18 was taken to the DeKalb County Jail on a charge of impersonating an officer.

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ment to the 12-foot-wide, concrete trail through the park. Th e council approved the project 4-3, with Councilwoman Lynn Deutsch and Councilmen Terry Nall and Denny Shortal voting against the proposal.

Mayor Mike Davis later defended both projects as important to the city.

“I consider both the Main Street Project in Dunwoody Village and the continuation of the Brook Run multi-use trail as critically signifi cant projects of change for Dunwoody,” Davis wrote in an email. “Th e Main Street Project in Dunwoody Village gives the entire vil-lage area a much needed lift, and will help promote future investment and re-development opportunities. ...

“Continuation of the Brook Run multi-use trail provides the community with opportunities for active recreation and access not available before. Th e trail will open up areas of the park previous-ly inaccessible in the past, and provide users of all ages and abilities with ac-cess to the more than 100 acres of Brook Run Park. It’s not just another phase of a trail, but a key cog in the overall city-wide trail network, off ering new pedes-trian access to shops, restaurants and neighborhoods, and eventually connect-ing Brook Run Park to Georgetown and future areas within the city.”

Both projects were the focus of heat-ed debate in Dunwoody for much of 2013. Opponents joined with residents who questioned a proposal to study in-stallation of a roundabout at the inter-section of Vermack and Womack roads to create a group called Save Dunwoody, and posted yard signs decrying the proj-ects.

Th e projects also became issues in the 2013 campaigns for three seats on Dunwoody City Council. Incumbents reclaimed two of the seats, but a critic of the projects, newcomer Jim Riticher,

won the third after the incumbent did not seek re-election.

Critics of the projects remained un-convinced of the need for them even as the city was moving ahead with con-struction.

“Th e Dunwoody Village Parkway project is Exhibit A of Dunwoody City Council incompetence ...,” Save Dun-woody member Jim Dickson said in an email. “Several council members who voted for this project design claim it was necessary to promote economic devel-opment while acknowledging ... they had serious doubts it ever would.”

Merry Carmichael, who also was active in Save Dunwoody, said “once again, the cart has been put before the horse. ... Building this now toward the Dunwoody City Council’s ‘future vi-sion’ is a waste of our taxpayer dollars, both local funds and federal grants.”

And Paul Lowry, who lives on Peel-er Road across from Brook Run Park, questioned the cost of the projects, and suggested the reworking of the parkway should include contributions from busi-nesses in the area. “I’m really into pub-lic-private,” he said. “If we want to cre-ate a village up there, I think the private people up there should help do it.”

Members of the council were critical of the cost of the second phase of the Brook Run Trail.

Th e council agreed to approve up to $666,600 for the construction contract, including a 10 percent contingency fund. Th e city originally had budgeted $441,000 for the job, Parks and Recre-ation Manager Brent Walker said in a memorandum to the council, but the low bid on the project was for $606,000. Th e diff erence would be made up by us-ing funds originally allocated for future work on the trail, city offi cials said.

Davis called the increase in the antic-ipated cost of construction “a sure sign the economy is coming back.”

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