Cobb Commission Chairwoman Lisa Cupid will take the oath of office for her second term on Monday at a swearing-in ceremony at the Cobb Civic Center (548 S. Marietta Parkway).
The event is free and is open to the public and starts at 6 p.m. You’re asked to contact her office at 770-528-3306 or email allin@cobbcounty.org if you’d like to attend.
A Democrat, Cupid won re-election in November over Republican Kay Morgan.
Cupid was the first woman and first African-American to hold the position, which is elected countywide.
But her tenure thus far marked by a number of mostly partisan issues that were eventually shelved.
They included a major overhaul of private trash services, a proposed stormwater fee and a plan to allow accessory dwelling units in residential backyards.
Cupid and her Democratic colleagues also claimed home rule powers to draw commission electoral maps in an attempt to keep Commissioner Jerica Richardson in her seat.
That move was eventually struck down in the courts, and Richardson’s seat has been declared vacant and special elections will be held early this year for two commission district seat.
Cupid also pushed through a vote to call a referendum to impose a transit tax in Cobb. It would have collected nearly $11 billion over 30 years, but was soundly defeated by voters in November.
An ethics complaint was filed against Cupid by Lance Lamberton of the Cobb Taxpayers Alliance, who claims she “engaged in unethical behavior by using taxpayer dollars to promote passage” of the transit tax.
A Cobb Ethics Board hearing was to have been held in December but was cancelled because there was not a quorum.
Lamberton said the meeting has been rescheduled for Monday at 4 p.m., two hours before Cupid’s swearing-in ceremony.
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- Cobb Public Library System director to retire
- Proposed Mt. Bethel Christian Academy master plan delayed
- East Cobb massage business suspended for nine months
- New Gritters Library ‘a community asset for the whole area’
- Cobb commissioners withdraw ADU proposal
- Birrell calls accessory dwelling units ‘a bad idea’
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