Office of the City Clerk

City Clerk Susan Hiott

Phone: 404-927-9502

Ms. Hiott holds a Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Information Systems from Kennesaw State University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Minor in English from North Carolina Wesleyan College. She received an Associates of Arts from Spartanburg Technical College.

Ms. Hiott is an International Certified Municipal Clerk (MMC), Certified Georgia Municipal Clerk (CMC), and holds the Georgia Records Management Professional Certificate (GRMP). Prior to being appointed as City Clerk of Mableton, Ms. Hiott held appointed positions as City Clerk for the cities of Acworth, Roswell, Smyrna, and Brookhaven.

Deputy City Clerk Alison Benson

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 470-568-9446

Ms. Benson holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication & Culture with a concentration in Legal Communications. She has extensive experience in overseeing and processing legal documents and other record keeping operations.

The Clerk’s Office strives to provide courteous and professional service to elected officials, city staff, and most importantly, the public.

The City Clerk is the official record keeper for the City. This office is responsible for recording and maintaining the Council’s official actions in minutes, coordinating, and distributing the agenda, maintaining contracts, ordinances, resolutions, and agreements, and coordinating the records management and retention program for the City.

The City Clerk is the liaison with the Cobb County Elections and Registration for city elections and qualifying of candidates. The City Clerk is the filing officer for the Georgia Campaign Contribution Disclosure Report and the Personal Financial Disclosure Statement. All filed reports are available by request to the City Clerk’s Office.

Open Records Requests

The Georgia Open Records Act establishes the right of every citizen to inspect and take a copy of all records except those specifically exempt from being open. When an agency receives a record request under the Open Records Act, it must comply with guidelines established in the law: • The agency has three business days from the date of the request to determine if the requested records, or portions of such records, are open or closed. • If the records are closed, the agency must respond in writing specifying the legal authority for restricting access to the records. • Otherwise, the records are to be provided within the three-day period or a plan for providing access to the records provided to the requester.

The Georgia Open Records Act (O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 et seq) requires that all city records, except those excluded by court order or by law, be open for personal inspection by any citizen of Georgia in a reasonable time and place. However, no public officer or agency shall be required to prepare reports, summaries, or compilations not in existence at the time of the request. Please review the Georgia Open Records Act for additional information.

Open Records Requests

Elections, Qualifying and Reports

General municipal elections are held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year (Georgia Election Code 21-2-9 (c).

Pursuant to the City Charter Section 5:11 for the City of Mableton, the offices of Councilmembers for Districts 2 (two), 4 (four), and 6 (six) shall be elected on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November 2025 which is November 4, 2025.

Pursuant to Georgia Code Title 21. Elections 21-2-131 (1) (B) the qualifying fee shall be 3 percent of the total gross salary of the office paid in the preceding calendar year including all supplements authorized by law if a salaried office.

Each candidate shall meet the qualifications of the City of Mableton Charter and Code of the City of Mableton, as well as applicable state laws. The salary of each City of Mableton councilmember is $20,000 annually, so the qualifying fee is $600.

Cobb County Elections & Registration will conduct the qualifying event Monday, August 18, 2025 – Wednesday, August 20, 2025, beginning 8:30 AM until 4:30 PM with an hour for lunch at the Mableton Administrative Offices located 1245 Veterans Memorial Highway.

The City of Mableton has contracted with Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration to conduct qualifying, for the November 4, 2025, election, and if any run-off on December 2, 2025.

For voter registration, precinct, polling locations, and current election information visit: https://www.cobbcounty.org/elections

For campaign finance laws and regulations, campaign ethics laws, and reporting forms and publications visit: https://ethics.ga.gov/

All filed candidate and officials reports are available by request to the City Clerk’s Office at [email protected] or [email protected].

Office of the City Clerk

City Clerk Susan Hiott

Open Records Requests

Elections, Qualifying and Reports

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