Find your public meetings, agendas

June 3, 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.

Executive session – aka closed meeting

Government and the law come with a lot of jargon, and we’re here to help decode it.

A meeting of a school board, county commission or city council sometimes goes into “executive session” during a public meeting. That means the board chooses to withdraw into secrecy, without public witnesses, to discuss one of a handful of topics allowed some secrecy under Georgia law. For example, if a city is negotiating to buy or sell a piece of land, or if it’s negotiating a lawsuit settlement, or has some personnel matter, these are some of the reasons public officials can choose to speak among themselves in private.  

Before a private executive session can start, an official at the public meeting must announce the reason for the secrecy.  The board members must sign an affidavit saying that they discussed only what they said they would.  And they can choose to keep minutes. 

Any eventual outcome – like a land transaction or a lawsuit payout — becomes public once it’s finalized.  And in the meantime, board members can publicly discuss what happened in private.

Our list of meeting agendas and schedules depends on what cities, counties, school boards and other boards publish online covering the next two weeks.  Some publish more details than others. As always, if there is a public entity you’d like to see, let us know. We’ll try to add it.

Bryan County

Bryan County Commission

Bryan County Board of Health

Richmond Hill | City Council 🖥

Bulloch County

Bulloch County | Commission 🖥

Camden County

Camden County | Commission and Election Board 🖥

Camden County Board of Education

Camden County Board of Health

Chatham County

Bloomingdale

Chatham County Commission | 🖥

Garden City

Pooler

Savannah-Chatham Board of Education | 🖥

Savannah-Georgia Convention Center Authority

Thunderbolt

Tybee Island | City Council 🖥

Effingham County

Effingham County | County Commission and Planning Board 🖥

Glynn County

Brunswick | City Commission 🖥

Brunswick Housing Authority 🖥

Glynn County Commission | 🖥

Glynn County Board of Education | 🖥

Glynn County Board of Health

Jekyll Island Authority

Liberty County

Hinesville

Hinesville Housing Authority

Liberty County Board of Education | 🖥

Liberty County Board of Health

Midway

McIntosh County

McIntosh posts some schedules via The Darien News.

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

McIntosh

McIntosh County Board of Education

Multi-County

Coastal Regional Commission

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.

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,...