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Atlanta, GA | Posted: November 15, 2017
Travis Horsley, a 2012 alumnus of the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, won his first election bid on November 7, 2017. He will be a new councilman-at-large in Hapeville, Georgia. Located near Atlanta-Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, the community is home to Porsche’s North American headquarters.
Horsley says that he plans to focus on livability, public safety, capacity-building, openness and transparency, economic development, cost-savings in the budgetary process, and analytics-based municipal management. Horsley believes that the City of Hapeville sits at the juxtaposition of major change, and he would like to be part of this movement.
As a student at Georgia Tech, Horsley co-founded Tubing Operations for Humanitarian Logistics (TOHL), an enterprise that innovated plastic tubing dropped by a helicopter to deliver water to isolated communities in emergency situations.
Horsley was a recipient of the Ivan Allen Jr Legacy Award presented by the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, which is home to the School of Public Policy.
Congratulations, Travis!
For more information on the election bid, visit the Travis Horsley Hapeville Councilman- atLarge Facebook page.