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May 12, 2025

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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.

What’s on — or off — the agenda

Taxpayers can learn about their local governments’ upcoming decisions by reading agendas — but agendas can change in the days leading up to the meeting. 

For example, the Chatham County Commission was again getting close to considering a contractor for its long-delayed and much-needed emergency operations headquarters, according to an agenda item that appeared earlier in the week for last Friday’s meeting. But by Thursday, the link to that item didn’t work anymore and the contract was absent from the final version of the agenda. (Though background documents outlining an intent to award a $79 million contract to Reeves Young, LLC are still in the 472-page agenda packet for May 9, if you’d like to read.)

Every public board should have rules setting how items get put on the agenda and the deadlines for preparing and publishing it. In Chatham’s rules, for example, the commission chair has lots of agenda review power. Much of the work of any public board will be public reviews of routine staff work on things like proposed zoning changes, contracts, grants or liquor licenses.

Boards and councils typically handle every agenda item with discussion and an up-or-down vote. But elected officials can also vote to set aside agenda items for consideration at a later date, a process called “tabling.”  When something is sticky, difficult, controversial or unclear, “tabling” is a way to hit pause. 

Check out what’s on your local government’s table over the next two weeks with our list of public meetings. We’re checking about 50 agencies and counting. Let us know how we’re doing or how you use this list at staff@thecurrent.org

Bryan County

Bryan County Board of Education | 🖥

Bryan County Development Authority

Richmond Hill | City Council 🖥

Bulloch County

Bulloch | County Commission 🖥

Development Authority of Bulloch County

Camden County

Camden | County Commission and Election Board 🖥

Camden County Board of Education

Kingsland

St. Marys | 🖥

Chatham County

Bloomingdale

Chatham | County Commission 🖥

Chatham Board of Elections

Chatham County Board of Health

Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission

Pooler

Port Wentworth | 🖥

Savannah | 🖥

Savannah Economic Development Authority

Savannah Housing Authority

Savannah-Chatham Board of Education | 🖥

Savannah-Georgia Convention Center Authority

Thunderbolt

Tybee Island | City Council 🖥

World Trade Center Savannah

Effingham County

Effingham | County Commission and Planning Board 🖥

Effingham County Industrial Development Authority

Glynn County

Brunswick | City Commission 🖥

Brunswick | Housing Authority 🖥

Glynn | County Commission 🖥

Glynn County Board of Education | 🖥

Jekyll Island Authority

Liberty County

Flemington

Hinesville

Hinesville Development Authority

Hinesville Housing Authority

Liberty | County Commission 🖥

Liberty Consolidated Planning Commission

Liberty County Board of Education | 🖥

Midway

Walthourville

McIntosh County

McIntosh and Darien post some schedules only via The Darien News.

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

Darien

McIntosh

McIntosh County Board of Education

McIntosh County Industrial Development Authority

Multi-County

Coastal Regional Commission

This list starts with an automated collection that does not involve AI. It 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,...