Commission

Chairman Mike Kenn and commissioners Karen Elaine Webster and William

"Bill" Edwards will receive the Progressive Economic Outlook

Award for demonstrating dedicated public service and outstanding leadership

in 2001.

Companies and

institutions that have closed industrial revenue bond issues with the

authority will receive the Development Authority of Fulton County 2001

Economic Development Award for excellence in business.

Honorees are

Cauley Creek Water Reclamation; Tuff/Atlanta Housing (Georgia State University);

Georgia Tech Foundation; The Trinity School; Graham Packaging Company;

The Lovett School; United Parcel Service; Alpharetta Christian Academy;

U.S. Foodservice; Choicepoint Inc.; Cingular Wireless LLC; Georgia Tech

Athletic Association, and BellSouth Telecommunications Inc.

The Development

Authority was created in 1973 by a Fulton County Board of Commissioners

resolution and Georgia law to promote economic development throughout

the county. Since then, the authority has issued over $3 billion in taxable

and tax-exempt bonds.

The bonds provide

financing for businesses that were relocating or expanding existing facilities

in Fulton County, resulting in the creation or retention of more than

335,000 jobs.