[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 157 (Wednesday, November 6, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S7867]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TRIBUTE TO MAYOR EVA GALAMBOS

  Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, I rise for a moment, the day after 
elections all over the country, to pay tribute to a great Georgian.
  Yesterday, November 5, 2013, the city of Sandy Springs elected a new 
mayor by the name of Rusty Paul. But Rusty was elected to succeed Eva 
Galambos, the first and only mayor of Sandy Springs, GA--an outstanding 
citizen of our State and a real representative of what it is about to 
be a good citizen of Georgia.
  For 30 years she chaired a committee called the Committee for Sandy 
Springs, from 1975 until 2005. That committee was a committee of 
community members in an unincorporated area who wanted to have their 
own city, their own government, and they wanted to privatize 
government.
  They tried for 30 years to get the State legislature--for 20 of those 
years I was a part of that legislature--to approve a municipal charter 
for Sandy Springs. Finally, in 2004, the legislature did. In 2005, it 
was ratified by the voters of Sandy Springs and the voters of the city 
of Atlanta, and Sandy Springs became a city.
  Because Eva had chaired the committee to make it a city for 30 years, 
she was selected as its first mayor and served in that capacity for 8 
outstanding years. A city that was a typical urban sprawl, suburban 
sprawl city, she turned into one of the prettiest places in Georgia. 
She beautified the streets, put in streetscapes, easements for 
beautification.
  Today, we have a beautiful linear park on the most major road that 
goes through Sandy Springs, on Johnson Ferry Road and Abernathy--a 
linear park where people are able to enjoy a park and have a buffer 
from a highway, yet improved traffic flowing through that community.
  That was just one of many things she did in innovative ways to make 
it a better community.
  Eva is a great citizen. She has a wonderful husband, three great 
children, six great grandchildren, but her seventh grandchild is the 
city of Sandy Springs. She birthed it. She led it. She grew it. At the 
end of this year she will leave it as its mayor, but she will always be 
there as its leading citizen.
  So I rise today on the floor of the Senate to pay tribute to Eva 
Galambos for doing the American dream--having a dream, 30 years working 
to achieve it, and at the end of those 30 years then leading it to 
become what she always hoped it could be: a great city, the city of 
Sandy Springs, GA.
  I yield back the remainder of my time.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I be 
recognized for up to 8 minutes, followed by Senator Baldwin.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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