The City of Atlanta will celebrate the collaborative effort between Atlanta’s Graffiti Task Force and Atlanta Paint Disposal to combat graffiti vandalism on public property throughout Atlanta.
The mission of the Focus on Results Team in the Chief Operating Officer’s office is to enable tangible and lasting improvements across city services by collaborating with departments to drive performance improvement.
On May 29, the U.S. Department of Energy recognized Atlanta for its leadership in the first year of the Better Buildings Challenge. Launched by President Obama in December of 2011, the Better Buildings Challenge is a national leadership initiative that calls on chief executive officers, university presidents, and state and local leaders to reduce their portfolio-wide energy use 20 percent by 2020 and then share the results of their energy reduction strategies.