East Cobb Cityhood group to hold town hall with Milton mayor

The East Cobb Cityhood Committee is holding its second virtual town hall meeting next week, with Milton Mayor Joe Lockwood as the featured guest.

The town hall is next Thursday, May 20, starting at 6 p.m., and you can register by clicking here. You can read more about Lockwood by clicking here.

The event will focus on the proposed services for the proposed city of East Cobb—planning and zoning, code enforcement and parks and recreation.

There will be a Q and A session and participants can submit questions when they sign up.

The City of Milton was formed out of part of unincorporated North Fulton in 2006 and has 39,000 residents.

During 2019, East Cobb Cityhood leaders often referred to Milton as a model for what it was proposing at the time—primarily police and fire services—in a community with similar levels of affluence and demographics.

Milton also provides public works, community development (zoning and code enforcement), and parks and recreation.

The previous East Cobb Cityhood effort also pointed to Milton for its steady millage rate, which has been slightly lowered in each of the last two years.

The revived East Cobb group this week posted a “case study” about Milton’s tax surplus and financial status, as well as its provision of services (and another for Peachtree Corners, which became a city in Gwinnett County in 2017 and has a zero millage rate).

Lockwood was re-elected in 2020 to his fourth and final two-year term as Mayor of Milton.

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• Q & A: State Rep. Matt Dollar, sponsor of cityhood bill
• Cityhood opposition group calls renewed effort “Jaws 2”
• East Cobb Cityhood bill calls for Nov. 2022 referendum
• East Cobb Cityhood effort revived with new services, map
• East Cobb News Cityhood Page

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