Polls will open at City Hall from 7 AM - 7 PM on Tuesday, December 5 for the runoff election for Post 3 of the Sugar Hill City Council.
The candidates are incumbent Jennifer Thatcher and challenger Meg Avery.
Thatcher has held the office for two years. Mayor Brandon Hembree has campaigned aggressively for her this election even though he backed her opponent in the 2021 special election. Thatcher won that election by 41 votes.
Despite campaigning as an “outsider” who was not afraid to speak up, she quickly fell in lockstep with the existing members of the Council. In the past two years, the City Council has voted on 130 agenda items. Thatcher only diverged from the more established Council Members twice. Even then, given the City Council’s peculiar habit of voting in unison most of the time (every vote for the last year and a half has been completely unanimous), it’s hard to tell if Thatcher’s votes were organic or orchestrated.
Challenger Meg Avery is a former Sugar Hill City Council Member who ran alongside new Council Members-Elect Gary Pirkle and Joshua Page on a platform of “Lower Taxes, Lower Density, and Lower Debt” in response to growing resident concerns about the City’s approach to finances and growth.
