Voters Finally Have Their Say
categories: Johns Creek Real Estate, Local Affairs, Milton Real Estate
The Cities of Johns Creek and Milton finally have elected officials. Mike Bodker is Mayor of Johns Creek and Joe Lockwood is Mayor of Milton. Most people are just relieve that it is over.
It is not exactly news that Bodker is mayor since he was unopposed. However, in Milton, there was a heated race for mayor which turned out to be quite lopsided with Lockwood taking 59% of the vote. About 6,600 people voted in the Milton mayoral contest.
Most of the council races in Johns Creek were trouncings. There will be two runoffs for the Post 2 and Post 4 seats.
In Milton, three seats were contested. There will be runoffs in Districts 3 and 4. In District 2, Julie Baily just barely won a clean major to keep for having a runoff for that seat too.
For complete election results, see www.fultonelections.com.
The first Milton City Council meeting is scheduled for November 14 at 6PM at Milton High School. The new Milton City Hall will be located on Deerfield Parkway off Windward Parkway. All the property on the north side of Windward and west of GA-400 is in Milton.
Just a couple of closing notes on the election as we await the final runoffs: It was great to see all the conscientious candidates who had removed by today all the campaign signs along the roads and intersections.
I also always find voting interesting because it is one of the few times that the “old” and the “new” mix. I’ve lived in Milton for eight years and don’t consider myself a newcomer any more. However, in line to vote with me was a woman who has lived here for 26 years and before that lived in Roswell when there were only 4000 people in Roswell.
Most of the oldtimers seemed resigned to the changes that are taking place. You can’t keep development at bay forever. I overheard one older citizen say to his contemporary: “Yeah, I get offers on my land all the time…one of these days someone is going to make me an offer that I take.”
Oh, the challenges…the work has just begun. City Councils, we now have better control of our destiny. This is what we wanted; let’s not screw it up.
And by the way…can we fix the traffic problems? That is another blog post I suppose.
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