{"id":1808,"date":"2011-07-02T08:41:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T12:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/larry-hanson-inducted-to-gma-hall-of-fame.html"},"modified":"2011-07-02T08:41:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T12:41:39","slug":"larry-hanson-inducted-to-gma-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/larry-hanson-inducted-to-gma-hall-of-fame.html","title":{"rendered":"Larry Hanson inducted to GMA Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"According to the Valdosta city website 29 June 2011,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanet.com\/BreakingNews.aspx?CNID=62231\">\nLarry Hanson Inducted into Municipal Government Hall of Fame<\/a>:\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanet.com\/BreakingNews.aspx?CNID=62231\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/Modules\/ShowImage.aspx?imageid=886\"><\/a>\n<blockquote> The Georgia Municipal Association inducted Valdosta City\nManager Larry Hanson into the Municipal Government Hall of Fame at the\nassociation\u2019s annual convention in Savannah Monday, June 27.\n<p>\nThe Hall of Fame honors\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote> municipal officials who exemplify the best in\npublic service, and who, throughout their careers, have made extraordinary\ncontributions to their communities and Georgia\u2019s cities.\n<p>\nHanson has served the city since he began as a part-time employee\nin 1975. He went on to become the Director of Parks and Recreation,\nDirector of Community Affairs and Assistant City Manager before becoming\ncity manager in 1995.\n<p>\nDuring his tenure, the city has never had a tax increase and reduced the\nmillage rate nine times. Valdosta has no general fund debt, less than\n$10 million in total debt, an A+ bond rating and the general reserve\nfunds have doubled.\n<\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/Modules\/ShowImage.aspx?imageid=886\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.gmanet.com\/Assets\/Images\/hanson_larry_150px.jpg\"><\/a>\nAlso\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/Modules\/ShowImage.aspx?imageid=886\">\non GMA&#8217;s website.<\/a>\n<p>\n-gretchen\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Valdosta city website 29 June 2011, Larry Hanson Inducted into Municipal Government Hall of Fame: The Georgia Municipal Association inducted Valdosta City Manager Larry Hanson into the Municipal Government Hall of Fame at the association\u2019s annual convention in Savannah Monday, June 27. The Hall of Fame honors","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,54],"tags":[8701,4164,8785,4165,345,7,6],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-valdosta-city-council","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-municipal-association","tag-gma","tag-half-of-fame","tag-larry-hanson","tag-lowndes-county","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-ta","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}