{"598719":{"#nid":"598719","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Horsley Wins First Election Bid ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETravis 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\u0026rsquo;s North American headquarters.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHorsley 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.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a student at Georgia Tech, Horsley co-founded Tubing Operations for Humanitarian Logistics (TOHL), an enterprise that innovated\u0026nbsp;plastic tubing dropped by a helicopter to deliver water to isolated communities in\u0026nbsp;emergency situations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHorsley 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.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations, Travis!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on the election bid, visit the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/travisforcouncil\/about\/?ref=page_internal\u0022\u003ETravis Horsley Hapeville Councilman- atLarge\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Facebook page.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETravis Horsley, 2012 alumnus from the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, received his first election bid. The election took place on November 7, 2017. He will be a new councilman-at-large in Hapevill, the dynamic community near Atlanta\u0026rsquo;s airport and home of Porsche\u0026rsquo;s North American headquarters.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Travis Horsley, 2012 alumnus from the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, won his first election bid. "}],"uid":"34554","created_gmt":"2017-11-13 17:54:52","changed_gmt":"2017-11-27 17:07:10","author":"ralu3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-11-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-11-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"598721":{"id":"598721","type":"image","title":"Travis Horsley ","body":null,"created":"1510596101","gmt_created":"2017-11-13 18:01:41","changed":"1510596110","gmt_changed":"2017-11-13 18:01:50","alt":"","file":{"fid":"228250","name":"Travis Horsley Councilman-at-large _November 2017 (Original) .jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Travis%20Horsley%20Councilman-at-large%20_November%202017%20%28Original%29%20.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Travis%20Horsley%20Councilman-at-large%20_November%202017%20%28Original%29%20.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":127250,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Travis%20Horsley%20Councilman-at-large%20_November%202017%20%28Original%29%20.jpg?itok=azeCXS1o"}}},"media_ids":["598721"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/","title":"The Georgia Tech School of Public Policy "}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"6583","name":"Hapeville"},{"id":"176240","name":"councilman"},{"id":"4065","name":"election"},{"id":"176241","name":"bid"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nrebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}