ACCG Welcomes Summer Interns

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Pictured left to right: Allen Bush, Hayley McCloud and Jarrett Faber.

ACCG welcomes summer policy and research interns Hayley McCloud and Jarrett Faber and legal intern Allen Bush. The interns will assist the policy, research, and legal staff with various projects and research assignments throughout the summer.

Jarrett Faber is returning to ACCG after completing fall and spring internships for the organization. Faber graduated from Georgia State University with a degree in Public Policy and Philosophy in December, 2017. He plans on attending Emory University School of Law in the fall. Although Faber has lived in Atlanta for the past three years, he is a Paulding County native. In his free time he enjoys running, cooking, and reading.

Hayley McCloud is a second year Master of Public Administration student from Kennesaw State University (KSU) seeking a career in local government management. She earned her B.S. in Political Science from KSU in 2011. Prior to starting her MPA full-time, McCloud served as the Senior Manager of State Affairs at the American College of Rheumatology where she managed legislative affairs for 50 states. She also served as a Senior Political Field Representative at the Georgia Association of REALTORS® and as a Legislative Correspondent/Field Representative at the U.S. House of Representatives.

McCloud has a passion for local government. She is the founder and President of the International City/County Management Association Student Chapter at KSU. In her free time, Hayley enjoys kayaking, photography, and spending time with her horse, Mr. Bob.

Allen Bush will begin his third year of law school in the fall at Georgia State University College of Law (GSU Law) where he is working toward a certification in Environmental and Land Use Law. Prior to law school, he graduated from Auburn University in 2012 with a degree in Chemistry. Bush is an Urban Fellow with the Center for Comparative Metropolitan Studies at GSU Law and has recently been selected to participate in the Center’s Study Space X: Singapore Program, a week-long international program focusing on urban development in the era of climate change. He has worked with private law firms performing work in a number of areas of law, including property, bankruptcy, criminal, and family law. Following law school, Bush hopes to work in private practice in land use and zoning law.

Over the course of the summer, McCloud and Faber will assist policy and research staff by compiling and analyzing county election results, collecting and reviewing data on county occupation tax methods, examining TAVT revenues, reviewing sales tax trends, surveying counties on capital needs, consolidating county data sources related to the opioid crisis, gathering data for and helping to prepare presentations for upcoming legislative study committees, and providing general research and meeting assistance as needed. Bush will assist the legal department by performing deed research, reviewing contracts, aiding with a records retention project, updating publications, and performing general legal research assistance as requested.