Julie’s Education/Work Experience:

Julie graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Finance from Florida State University. Her professional career has included working for Southeast Bank in Miami, Citibank Leveraged Capital, and Equifax, as an assistant vice president in charge of strategic development. Julie grew up in Fulton County in Sandy Springs, but has lived in the Birmingham community in northwest Fulton – now the City of Milton - since 1988 with her husband Bill of 19 years and their two children, Savannah (9) and Zachary (12). They own Bailey Farm & Gardens, an ecologically friendly landscape, nursery and horticultural business. Julie also substitute teaches in the local schools while she and Bill both provide environmental education to audiences including scouts, schools and youth groups. Julie and Bill host an annual River’s Alive Event to encourage and educate the community about the importance of water quality. This year’s Rivers Alive event will be held on Saturday, October 27th from 8:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Julie and her family are members of the Roswell Presbyterian Church and are actively involved with the public schools in Milton as official community partners, active participants in the local PTA’s, School Councils and Environmental Education Committees. They also are frequent visitors to the Birmingham United Methodist Church.

Julie’s accomplishments in her first year in office have included:

• Key contributor to getting the city up and running including the passage of critical ordinances and processes that needed to be in place right away;

• Proactive participant in helping to balance the 2007 and 2008 budget.

• Helped to identify significant cost savings within the CH2MHill contract tied to insurance savings equating to $200,000 in savings in the first year and an almost $600,000 cumulative savings over a several year period;

• As a team, deployed the best Police and Fire Department the region has to offer;

• Introduced public participation into virtually all of our public forums to ensure community voice is a part of all decisions we evaluate and make;

• Stands firm on the no-sewer and no inter basin policies when other council members are on record as being willing to make exceptions to these critically important long standing policies that help to protect our low-density, more rural-residential community;

• Julie’s many years of experience and background in land use, design and review standards, zoning and other ordinance development has been central to many of the necessary detailed questions and discussions tied to ordinances passed to date including the sign ordinance, the necessity of improved standards for the Highway 9 Overlay area and more.

Julie Zahner Bailey’s public service accomplishments prior to being elected to the Milton City Council include the following:

• 10 years as a board member and Executive Director of the Birmingham Hopewell Alliance (BHA),

• Served for the past year on the City of Milton Zoning and Land Use Committee,

• Initiated the Birmingham Crossroads Master Planning process,

• Appointed to the Birmingham Master Planning Steering Committee ,

• Proactive participation in the creation and passage of the Northwest Fulton Overlay,

• Appointed and served 4 years on the Heritage Preservation Advisory Board (DRB),

• Played a community leadership role in the design/build of Fulton County Fire Station/Police Precinct #18 and the two, 4 million gallon water tanks on Freemanville Road in northwest Fulton,

• Appointed to the Rural Preservation Plan steering committee,

• Appointed to Commissioner Riley’s District 3’s Leader’s Advisory Group,

• Appointed to Commissioner Handel’s North Fulton Steering Committee,

• Appointed to the Birmingham Park Master Planning Steering Committee,

• Direct involvement in the creation of multiple ordinances, land use policies and zoning amendments for NW Fulton and beyond,

• Continued involvement in multiple rezonings throughout NW Fulton.