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Sandy Springs runoff features 2021 rematch City will sideline self-insured plan for its employees
By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — After whittling down mayoral candidates and electing all but one council member, Sandy Springs residents will decide Dec. 2 who next leads the city. Mayor Rusty Paul, a three-term incumbent, is facing Dontaye Carter, CEO of his own media company,
in a rematch of the 2021 mayoral election. After all votes were tallied Nov. 4, Paul secured 9,620 votes, or 43.2 percent, to Carter’s 4,703, or 21.1 percent. Paul defeated Carter by a 70-30 margin four years ago. The campaign has already tested just how nonpartisan local elections are in Sandy Springs. Carter describes himself as a “pro-
gressive Democrat,” and Paul has a resume including time as chair of the Georgia Republican Party in the late 1990s and work with presidential administrations. This year, Paul was challenged by two sitting members of the City Council, three-term Councilman Andy Bauman and two-term Councilwoman Jody Reichel.
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Crews lay groundwork for heavy construction on Ga. 400 express lanes By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com NORTH FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Tree clearing in advance of the construction of the Ga. 400 Express Lanes project, widening the state route four additional lanes, has caught the attention of commuters and residents this fall. Thousands of trees have been felled along the corridor, typically near exits that will be expanded and reconfigured as a part of the project. In mid-November, most of the tree clearing has occurred at Mansell and Holcomb Bridge roads in Roswell, just before the Chattahoochee River in Sandy Springs and around Union Hill Road in Forsyth County.
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By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com
ts proposal for the city’s 2 026 health plan is 4.9 p ercent higher than the c ANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — T- urrent year. D he City of Sandy Springs i uring this summer’s d s sticking with a fully i evelopment of the 2026 b nsured private health p udget, City Manager E lan for employees, with e den Freeman said the c lected officials approving a ity was studying whether s $9.73 million contract w elf-funding could reduce a ith Cigna Nov. 18. C projected 20 percent i igna Healthcare’s p ncrease to its annual h roposal came in more t ealth plan expense. T han $1 million under the a o fund a health i nticipated amount for n nsurance plan for 1,127 p ext year’s health plan c eople, including 479 e osts, a significant annual o mployees and their 6 perating expenditure that c 48 dependents, Sandy S ontinues to rise. C prings budgeted $10.8 m igna has been Sandy S illion. A prings’ health insurance p rovider since 2014, and i See PLAN, Page 10
Fulton judge recuses self in city’s records lawsuit ► PAGE 3
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A look at two sections of Ga. 400 shows tree-clearing work south of McFarland Parkway in Forsyth County and at the Mansell Road exit in Roswell.