Creating the New City of Sandy Springs: The 21St Century Paradigm: Private Industry
“Creating the New City of Sandy Springs” relates the story of the implementation of a new city in Georgia. The author played the key role in the implementation of the city which was the first to be incorporated in Georgia in fifty years. Sandy Springs became a city of over 90,000 citizens, making it the seventh largest city in the state, at birth.
The implementation of Sandy Springs was unique in a number of ways:
•1t was necessary to create new laws to enable the incorporation.
•The time to implement the city was much less than a year.
•The organizers had no authority, funds or staff.
•The city was created by volunteers in a major exercise of democracy.
•The services of the city were assigned to private industry in the broadest such contract in the nation.
The innovative use of private industry, through competitive contracting, to provide the widest possible scope of community services could well become a model for the twenty-first century city.
The author has attempted to relate, in easily-read terms, the rather amazing implementation of a wholly new form of municipal government. This book is intended to serve as a guide for those who may be considering the formation of a new municipal government (city or county), and also to existing cities and counties that may wish to consider the use of private industry in providing services.
The book is a “How to Do It” manual with relevant documents include for anyone interested in actually forming, or transforming, their local government.
Public/Private Partnerships for Local Governments
Ten new cities with a total of over one-half million residents have been created in Georgia in the last dozen years. The author was responsible for the implementation of Sandy Springs, the first new city to be incorporated in Georgia in fifty years. He served as the principal advisor to the majority of the other new cities. His previous book “Creating the New City of Sandy Springs” was published as a guide for other communities considering incorporation. That book introduced the concept of a broadly based public/private partnership as a more efficient and responsive model for providing services.
The record of successes of the first several of these new cities is outlined in this book.
Based on the success of these innovative cities, “Public Private Partnerships for Local Governments” strongly urges that existing cities which have followed the traditional bureaucratic structures, for too long, give strong consideration to the public/private partnership model.
The book contains sample Requests for Proposals (RFP’s), Contracts and more, that will serve as a very useful guide to introducing an improved, more efficient and responsive, model for local governments.