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City Manager Looks Back on Five Years of Accomplishments Looking Ahead to Booming Future
F
rom the Curiosity Lab to a new City Hall, City Manager Brian Johnson has steered Peachtree
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Corners through many big changes in his first five years on the job. Not that he’s taking credit for it. “We have had some wins,” says Johnson, who started the job in September 2016. “But again, I want to stress the whole ‘we.’ I might be the CEO of the city, ... and the mayor and the council are our board of direc-
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tors, ... but the ‘we’ is critical here. I can’t do it without mayor and council support. I can’t do it without my staff’s support.” Johnson said he surrounds himself with department heads who “I would like to think are smarter than me” and keeps them focused on city service. “We get in early, we leave late, [and] try to make this the best community we can be to live, work and play,” he said. Mayor Mike Mason says he’s glad the city brought Johnson onto that team. peachtreecornerslife
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“Although Brian was not from the area and moved here shortly after he was hired, in many ways, he saw the city the same way I did from the start — and I’m a 30-plus-year resident who led the ‘Yes!’ campaign and became the first mayor,” said Mason. “That’s been a gift to have someone who shares the vision and then, most importantly, takes action to get things done. I’m told by other mayors that this ‘sense of ownership’ is unique. He has a relentlessly positive, can-do attitude, and that is so appeachtreecornerslife
