Welcome to the City of Sugar Hill, Georgia        

Certified City of Ethics

The City of Sugar Hill has earned the designation of a Certified City of Ethics by the Georgia Municipal Association. The Certified City of Ethics program was designed by a public-private task force to help city officials improve the public's perception of government officials.                 More Information

City Government Organization

The government of Sugar Hill is comprised of the Mayor and City Council.

The Mayor and City Council are strongly committed to maintaining and enhancing the quality of life in Sugar Hill through protection of the environment, sound fiscal management, and careful planning for orderly growth and development.

The City Council meets on the second Monday of each month at 7:30 P.M. at the Sugar Hill Community Center adjacent to City Hall. Residents are cordially invited to take an active role in the life of our city and its government. We encourage you to attend our meetings and join us in working to ensure that our community continues to be an outstanding place in which to which to live and work.

Memberships and Training

The City of Sugar Hill is a member of the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), the agency responsible for ensuring that planning is coordinated throughout the 8-county metropolitan Atlanta region.

Sugar Hill is also an active member of the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA). GMA is an organization devoted solely to helping cities run better. Some of the benefits of membership include: in-depth training programs that help city employees do their job more professionally; programs to teach commissioners and staff how to serve as efficient stewards of the tax payer's dollar and operate the city more cost-effectively; up-to-the-minute information on laws, regulations and mandates that local governments must comply with; ready access to information on state and federal grants available to cities for capital projects and special programs; lease purchase plans for equipment and real property with interest rates that have been as low as 2.05%; and more.

Standards of Conduct for Elected and Appointed Officials of the City of Sugar Hill

The Council of the City of Sugar Hill, Georgia recognizes and understands that persons holding a position of public trust are under constant observation and that maintaining the integrity and dignity of the public office to which they have been elected or appointed is essential for maintaining high levels of public confidence in our institutions of government. The Council therefore resolves that all such officials of the City should adhere to the following standards of conduct:

1.    Avoid during public meetings and during the performance of public duties the use of abusive, threatening, or intimidating language or gestures directed at colleagues, citizens, or local government personnel.

2.    Make every effort to attend all regularly scheduled meetings of the body on which you serve as well as committee meetings relevant to your elected/appointed office.

3.    Make a conscientious effort to be prepared for each meeting.

4.    Conduct yourself in a courteous manner and avoid personal criticisms in public meetings.

5.    Work to create a positive environment in public meetings where citizens will feel comfortable in their roles as observers or participants.

6.    Maintain an attitude of courtesy and consideration toward all colleagues and staff during all discussions and deliberations.

7.    Be respectful and attentive. Avoid comments, or actions that convey a message of disrespect, and allow citizens, colleagues, and staff sufficient opportunity to present their views.

8.    Treat your office as a public trust, only using the power and resources to advance public interests and not to attain personal benefit or pursue any other private interest.

9.    Employ independent, objective judgment in performing your duties, deciding all matters on their merits, free from avoidable conflicts of interest and both real and apparent improper influences.

10.    Assure that meetings and decisions are conducted openly, efficiently, equitably,
honorably, and in a manner that permits the citizenry to make informed judgments and hold government officials accountable.

11.    Honor and respect the principles and spirit of representative democracy and set a positive example of good citizenship by scrupulously observing the letter and spirit of laws and rules.

12.    Safeguard public confidence in the integrity of government by being honest, fair, caring, respectful, and by avoiding conduct creating the appearance of impropriety or which is otherwise unbefitting a public official.

13.    Be careful not to disclose privileged or protected information that you may receive as a result of your position and avoid even the appearance of using such information for personal gain.

14.    Be cognizant that as an appointed or elected official, your words, actions, and communications should be consistent with the trust placed in you by the city.

15.    Recognize that violations of the City Ethics Ordinance, state ethics laws and other ordinances or laws relating to ethical conduct may be grounds for civil or criminal actions against you and/or the City may be grounds for removal from office as allowed by law.

It is so resolved this 12th day of April, 2004.