![When Amanda Martin Akins Came on Board, This Georgia Community Got More Than an Operator](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fmbo_9894.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=620&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=1024&s=dc8f2ac8d9864ec00a4e86c207e17dd5)
Martin Akins has contributed to improvements in a variety of municipal service beyond the water and wastewater systems. (Screw screen manufactured by HUBER Technology.)
You don’t typically picture a clean-water superintendent writing grants for items like a street sweeper, flower plantings for the downtown, or vests and radios for the police department.
Just over two years into her tenure in Sparta, Georgia, Amanda Martin Akins has made such...