The list of names of those belonging to the Committee for Cityhood in East Cobb is a bit different than what the organization originally released earlier this year.
After cityhood leaders were asked at two different cityhood-related events earlier this week to identify all the indivdiuals involved, the following is the group of names included on the committee’s website:
- David Birdwell, retired logistics real estate executive
- Owen Brown, owner and president of retail real estate company
- Rob Eble, technology consultant
- Joe Gavalis, retired federal agent
- Dee Gay, insurance consultant
- Karan Hallacy, Georgia PTA president, Development Authority of Cobb County member
- Lisa Hanson, former sales and marketing executive
- Nick Johnson, healthcare technology
- Chris Mayer, SR VP sales & marketing Flexible Packaging
- Chip Patterson, partner, hospitality business
- Jerry Quan, retired Cobb County Police Precinct 4 commander, current school resource officer
- Carolyn Roddy, attorney
- David Womack, technology outsourcing deployment
- John Woods, financial consulting
With the exception of Johnson, Mayer and Womack, all of the above were included on the orginal cityhood committee list when it was released in March, or joined soon after.
Original committee members Sharon McGehee, an associate director of advancement at Mt. Bethel Christian Academy and Kevin Taitz, a technology consultant, are no longer listed.
The original list had been on the cityhood website until recently, when the some of the site content was changed.
Birdwell, who led a cityhood town hall meeting Monday and was in a debate with the anti-cityhood East Cobb Alliance on Tuesday, also was asked to identify who is funding the cityhood’s feasibility study and lobbyists.
He wouldn’t name names except to say that “a large group” of East Cobb residents have made donations.
Birdwell also was asked if a revised map of the proposed City of East Cobb boundaries, unveiled at the town hall meeting, would be posted soon.
He said it would be, but the cityhood group had just received it from the state apportionment office and a link wasn’t immediately available.
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- Visit the East Cobb News cityhood resource page
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