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Mayor Kasim Reed

Mayor of Atlanta
Participe à 1 Session
Kasim Reed is the 59th Mayor of the City of Atlanta. He was elected to a second term on November 5, 2013 and took the oath of office on January 6, 2014. Elected with a clear mandate for fiscal reform, Mayor Reed has increased core city services and reduced the City’s spending during the worst recession in 80 years.

Since taking office, he has hired more than 900 police officers and created the largest police force in the city’s history, re-opened all of the city’s recreation centers as safe havens for young people and improved fire-rescue response times. Working with the Atlanta City Council and the city’s employee unions, he successfully initiated a series of sweeping reforms to address the city’s $1.5 billion unfunded pension liability. Mayor Reed began his term facing a $48 million budget shortfall; under his leadership, the city has had four years of balanced budgets with no property tax increases, and its cash reserves have grown from $7.4 million to more than $127 million.

Mayor Reed has received numerous accolades since taking office. In 2013, he was ranked among the top ten most influential African-Americans in the nation by The Root, a publication of the Washington Post Company. He received the Distinguished Leadership Award from the National Forum for Black Public Administrators. The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington D.C. honored him with the Louis E. Martin Great American Award, saying he “heralds a new and creative approach to leadership.” In 2011, Governing Magazine named Mayor Reed as one of the top state and local government officials of the year. Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times columnist and author of “That Used to Be Us,” called Reed “inspiring” and labeled him as “one of the best of this new breed of leaders.” In his book “We Can All Do Better,” former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley cited Reed’s straightforward approach in successfully reforming the city’s pension plan and wrote: “We need more of that kind of candor.”

Sessions auxquelles Mayor Kasim Reed participe

Lundi 20 Mars, 2017

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 heure
Social JusticeLive Stream

With profound gratitude, the CCAR thanks the Molly Blank Fund of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation for underwriting the CCAR’s engagement with the Atlanta community during today’s programming; at the hotel, at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, and at The Temple. SOCIAL JUSTICE KICKOFF PROGRAM Introduction: David Stern Through our panel’s candid conversation and appreciative inquiry, we will explore how to be...