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April 10, 2014 | northfulton.com | 73,500 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 18, No. 15
Bodker pushing town center plan Calls it city’s missing link assure future fiscal stability By HATCHER HURD hatcher@northfulton.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Mayor Mike Bodker used the April 2 Rotary Club of Johns Creek/ Fulton meeting for a bully pulpit to explain why he thinks a vibrant town center is the missing piece to Johns Creek’s assured success in the future. The city has accomplished great things in its brief sevenyear history. It is the premier residential city in the state with its signature school sys-
tem, and a new City Council has “taken the reins” at City Hall, he said. “Now I want to share my vision for the city,” Bodker said. “I want to start a conversation about what will it take to make the city great [and] financially stable now but 100 or 150 years from now.” A city that is supported with a tax base that is 79 percent residential and only 21 percent commercial cannot
See BODKER, Page 6
Councilwoman confronts Nude ‘cowboy’ intruder HATCHER HURD/STAFF
Warren Hutmacher, Johns Creek’s new city manager, receives a welcome from Councilwoman Cori Davenport at the Atlanta Athletic Club.
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Hutmacher ready to don JC spurs By HATCHER HURD hatcher@northfulton.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Warren Hutmacher, Johns Creek’s new city manager, was in the city April 2 to be introduced to the Rotary Club of Johns Creek/Fulton, and took a few minutes to sit down with the Johns Creek Herald at the Atlanta Athletic Club to talk
about his new job. Hutmacher is the former Dunwoody city manager who accepted the position in the city. This is his fourth job as a city manager, having also held that job in Norcross and before that in Avondale Estates. He was also the former assistant to the Marietta city manager. He has a master’s degree
in public administration from Ohio State University, and made the Georgia Trend magazine “40 under 40” list in 2003. Hutmacher said Johns Creek was an appealing job, one that not only offered a chance for professional growth, but a city where he
See MANAGER, Page 14
Man had history of mental issues By HATCHER HURD & JONATHAN COPSEY
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Call him the Commando Cowboy. Last Monday afternoon Ashdon Gibbs, 21, of Decatur entered the home of Johns Creek Councilwoman Cori Davenport in the Prestwick subdivision wearing nothing but a cowboy hat. Davenport’s 17-year-old daughter had come home from Johns Creek High School and was cooking noodles in the kitchen when Gibbs walked in through garage. Daven-
port heard her daughter scream that there was a naked man in the house. She and a male friend of her daughter from the neighDAVENPORT borhood ran into the kitchen. “The police asked me what he was wearing. I told them nothing but a cowboy hat. My daughter and her friend pushed him out the door, and he ran off,” Davenport said. The Davenport’s video surveillance showed that Gibbs
See COWBOY, Page 15