Lena Stevens, a project manager in Decatur’s Public Works Department, resigned this week effective Nov. 15. She joined the city in 2008 out of Indiana University where she earned a master in public affairs.
Stevens, 33, said Wednesday that’s she’s leaving “for personal reasons.
“I learned a lot in Decatur, which has the most dedicated public employees, maybe in the world,” she said. “I’m a better person for working here. But right now I just need to focus on myself.”
Stevens began as local government management fellow intern, was promoted to the newly-created position of resource conservation coordinator before joining public works in 2013.
She has worked on projects for every department throughout the city, but cites her work in recent years with the Georgia Department of Transportation as particularly satisfying.
“We want to help them understand what we’re dealing with in a dense urban environment and the need for more traffic calming, ” she said. “At the same time we’re also trying to understand their regulations and engineering standards for managing state roads.”
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