Kennesaw Mayor Mark Mathews is leaving office this month with recognition by the city’s two leading business organizations.
The Kennesaw Business Association has named Mathews the group’s Member of the Year.
Then the Northwest Cobb Area Council of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce chose him as Citizen of the Year.
Deciding not to seek a third term as mayor this fall, Mathews was elected to the City Council in 1996 and served three terms before being elected mayor in 2008.
Mathews will continue to serve as the Citizen Board representative for the Atlanta Regional Commission for District 14, covering Kennesaw, Acworth and all of west Cobb.
He was appointed to the ARC board in 2009 as the elected official representing the six cities of Cobb County.
Now as a private citizen, Mathews will begin his new ARC term in January as he fills the unexpired term of Dan Post who resigned his seat effective Dec. 31.
The ARC is the regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency within the 10-county, 70-city Atlanta region and the metropolitan planning organization for the wider Atlanta metro.
The board is comprised of 23 local elected officials, 15 private citizens and one representative of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.
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