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November 18, 2024

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Welcome aboard! This is a list of public meetings and agendas to help you follow the work of officials you’ve elected.

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The coast has a “workforce” problem: not enough local folks to fill jobs in the new factories rising by the highways.  Especially in short supply: automotive engineers, machinists and electricians.

So several counties have formed a new organization: the “Regional Industry Support Enterprise,” which will have the task of funneling coastal residents into these jobs.

They’d like to see local high school students among those poised for these jobs. 

Yet many of these superstar new companies aren’t paying a full school tax bill toward the education of these students.

The same county development authorities that face this workforce problem routinely grant property tax breaks to new or otherwise favored companies in the name of economic development. Hyundai itself gets a property tax discount for 26 years. These tax breaks on school, county and city property taxes are often part of larger subsidy packages. 

The idea is that eventually the Hyundais of the world will be worth more in property taxes than empty lots, so it’s a good deal.

Yet not everybody agrees schools should be on the block. Bulloch, for example, won’t give breaks on school taxes, and its economic development agency has said it hasn’t lost any prospects over that.

RISE has its first meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. at 906 Drayton St. in Savannah.

Its meetings are new on our list of public meetings from about 50 agencies that we track in coastal counties — keep scrolling, it’s a long list. 

As always, if there is a public entity you’d like to see, let us know. We’ll try to add it. This list depends on what local governments offer on the internet. 

Listen Up!

The Coastal Navigator podcast’s Season Finale: Exploring our communities post-election. Today, I’ll take you to three places. First, outside the polls on election day. Second, in the room where they tabulate the votes late on election night. And third, out into our coastal Georgia communities in the wake of the election, to explore how different groups are approaching the road ahead in Trump’s America.

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Bryan County

Bryan County| Commission and Planning & Zoning 🖥

Bryan County Board of Education

Richmond Hill | City Council 🖥

Bulloch County

Bulloch County | Commission 🖥

Camden County

Camden County | Commission and Election Board 🖥

St. Marys | 🖥

Chatham County

Bloomingdale

Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission

Garden City

Pooler

Port Wentworth | 🖥

Savannah | 🖥

Savannah Economic Development Authority

Savannah-Chatham Board of Education | 🖥

Tybee Island | City Council 🖥

Effingham County

Effingham County | Commission and Planning Board 🖥

Effingham County Industrial Development Authority

Glynn County

Glynn County Commission | 🖥

Liberty County

Hinesville

Hinesville Development Authority

Hinesville Downtown Development Authority

Liberty County | Commission 🖥

Liberty Consolidated Planning Commission

Midway

McIntosh County

McIntosh and Darien streams for Darientel subscribers only | 🖥($)

Darien

Darien posts some schedules only via The Darien News. Contact city hall or consult back issues of The Darien News for more details.

  • Darien Geechee-Gullah Cultural Heritage Commission November 18, 2024 4:00 p.m.
  • Darien City Council work session November 18, 2024 5:30 p.m.
  • Darien City Council regular meeting November 19, 2024 5:30 p.m. Check for agenda

McIntosh County Board of Health

McIntosh County Industrial Development Authority

Multi-county

Regional Industry Support Enterprise

This list starts with an automated collection and is checked and edited by a human. But agencies may announce new meetings, change meeting times or cancel them, sometimes without any online notice. Some publish calendars in more than one place with different information.  Some rely on Facebook posts which may require a login to read and cannot be collected automatically. 

You may want to call ahead and verify the meeting time and place, especially for smaller agencies.



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Maggie Lee is a data reporter for The Current. She has been covering Georgia and metro Atlanta government and politics since 2008, contributing writing and data journalism over the years to Creative Loafing,...