next month, one of Fairburn's longtime public servants will be gone.

City administrator

Tony Cox announced last week that he's leaving his post. Cox is moving

to Radford, Va., to take the city's manager's post in the town near Roanoke.

He is quick

to point out the reasons he's leaving are strictly personal.

"I'll

be a lot closer to my family, and they have a really good school system

up there for my kids," he said.

Cox has served

in Fairburn for nine years and is quite proud of some of his accomplishments.

Fairburn now runs its own cable company and offers Internet service to

its customers.

He's also glad

the city has managed the explosive growth that has come into the area

during the last few years.

During the

last two years, Cox has brought the City Council reguular reports of how

rapidly the city's growing and an update on residential and commercial

growth in the area.

"We've

been able to determine what type of growth we wanted in the area, which

is always good," he said.

Cox's last

day in Fairburn will be April 12.