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December 16, 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.

Paying for someone else’s fire

Firefighters run toward trouble: An invisible city or county line doesn’t mean anything when there’s a house on fire.

But those invisible lines mean a lot to folks back in the offices who have to figure out how to pay for all this. The money all comes from local taxes, so nobody’s too keen on buying expensive fire trucks that get sent to help people miles away who aren’t paying into the system.  

Some cities set up their own fire stations and tax their residents for it. Some cities don’t, and may instead pay into a network of county fire stations. 

And some cities are working on the question. Midway residents pay county property taxes, but until recently had a city volunteer fire department that was working in substandard conditions. The Current’s Robin Kemp has been reporting on fire risk and fire protection in Midway and Liberty County for months. Her latest report details how the Midway City Council delayed approval of its entire annual budget as it negotiates with the county about fire services. 

The next action on the question is set to happen tonight at Midway City Hall, with a final budget presentation at 6:00 p.m. and a council meeting at 6:45. It’s one of the cities that appears on our list of public meetings over the next two weeks.

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. 

Bryan County

Bryan | County Commission and Planning & Zoning 🖥

Richmond Hill | City Council 🖥

Bulloch County

Bulloch | County Commission 🖥

Camden County

Camden | County Commission and Election Board 🖥

Kingsland

St. Marys | 🖥

Chatham County

Chatham | County Commission 🖥

Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission

Pooler

Port Wentworth | 🖥

Savannah | 🖥

Savannah-Chatham Board of Education | 🖥

Savannah-Georgia Convention Center Authority

Tybee Island | City Council 🖥

Effingham County

Effingham | County Commission and Planning Board 🖥

Effingham County Industrial Development Authority

Glynn County

Brunswick | Housing Authority 🖥

Glynn | County Commission 🖥

Glynn County Board of Education | 🖥

Liberty County

Hinesville

Hinesville Development Authority

Liberty | County Commission 🖥

Liberty Consolidated Planning Commission

Liberty County Board of Education | 🖥

Midway

  • Midway City Council budget presentation and meeting December 16, 2024 6:00 p.m. and 6:45 p.m.

McIntosh County

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

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

Darien

McIntosh County Industrial Development Authority

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,...