Mayor Andre Dickens was appointed to serve on the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) Board of Directors as a Director at Large. Mayor Dickens is the first mayor of Atlanta to be appointed to Board of Directors since Mayor Shirley Franklin. Created in 1933, GMA is the only state organization that represents municipal governments in Georgia. Based in Atlanta, GMA is a voluntary, non-profit organization that provides legislative advocacy, educational, employee benefit and technical consulting services to its members.
“The influence and economic impact of Atlanta reaches well beyond our jurisdictional city limits, which is something I take very seriously. While I was elected to serve the people of Atlanta, I want all Georgia municipalities to thrive and will work with my GMA partners to ensure they do,” said Mayor Dickens. “I look forward to the work ahead and will do my part to help all Georgians in any way I can.”
Mayor Dickens joins the Board of GMA as he tackles some of the most pressing issues facing both the city of Atlanta and the state of Georgia—including commonsense gun control, public safety, affordable housing, income inequality and more.
GMA currently represents 537 cities in Georgia. A 66-member Board of Directors, composed of city officials, governs the organization. Program implementation is charged to the Executive Director and a staff of more than 95 full-time employees.
The City of Atlanta is heavily intertwined with the entire state of Georgia. In 2021, the gross domestic product of the Atlanta metropolitan area was $432 billion (according to OECD)—about 63% of Georgia’s GDP of $683 billion, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Mayor Dickens was recently named Chair of the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ new Public-Private Partnership Task Force. Mayor Dickens chaired the inaugural session of the Task Force during the 90th Annual Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Reno, NV.
Earlier this year, Mayor Dickens was named a co-chair of the Truman Center for National Policy’s new Task Force on City and State Diplomacy. Supported by the Open Society Foundations, this effort will address states, cities and other subnational actors as essential participants in foreign policy.
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