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about sandy springs

94 percent of residents voted for
incorporation, creating Georgia’s first
new city in 50 years.
With a desire for a streamlined
government physically closer to
constituents and responsive to
community needs, city leaders
implemented a non-traditional approach.
The City used the public-private model,
with nearly half of city staff employed
by a private company – effectively
running the City, not “like” a business,
but “with” business.
All city services, with the exception of
the city manager administration and the
public safety departments, are provided
through private contractors. This business
model fosters a proactive, responsive
and efficient approach to providing city
services. A 24-hour staffed Call Center
offers residents, businesses and visitors
a one-number connection.
With the efficiencies and cost
AirWatch savings, the City invests into the
community with the result a higher
Our public-private model for providing unincorporated area of north Fulton level and quality of services provided.
government services serves as a County. For almost 40 years, Sandy The model has attracted attention by
standard recognized around the U.S. and Springs residents moved to obtain their national media including CNN, Fox
internationally. The City is home to such own city government, knowing there was News, The Economist and the New York
companies as UPS; Newell Rubbermaid; Times, as well as government leaders
First Data; Cox Enterprises; AirWatch; a better, more efficient way to provide across the U.S. and globe including
Graphic Packaging; and Intercontinental services. In June 2005, an overwhelming China, Ireland, Japan, Turkey and Finland.
Exchange, parent company of the New
York Stock Exchange.
It also comes as no surprise that
medical and biotech industries are
abundant in Sandy Springs. The City’s
Medical District is the premier location
for industry growth. Forty percent of
the metro Atlanta area’s hospital beds
are within Sandy Springs. Northside
Hospital, Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital
and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
at Scottish Rite are all nationally
recognized for excellence.
It is no wonder Forbes’ Magazine
named Sandy Springs one of the “Top 25
Towns to Live Well,” and CNN ranked the
city among “Best Places to Live.”
At the intersection of the two busiest limited-access
breaking with tradition highways in the metro area, Interstate 285 and GA 400,
Efforts to incorporate Sandy Springs Sandy Springs is a demographically diverse community
began in 1966 in response to the covering a 38 square-mile area in north Fulton County, Georgia.
city of Atlanta’s effort to annex this
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