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October 14, 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.

What a “housing authority” does — or doesn’t do

The patchwork of services that are supposed to help low-income Georgians afford housing has been threadbare in Brunswick.

“The community housing group Hand in Hand of Glynn is facing a logjam — 50 tiny homes in Brunswick sit vacant almost 18 months after completion due to continued bureaucratic complications and disjointed communication with the Brunswick Housing Authority,” writes The Current’s Glynn County reporter Jabari Gibbs in a new story. 

Public agencies set up by a county or a city can administer benefits such as housing vouchers, as can the state. But the processes of coordinating federal, state, local and private actors is complex to the point where it’s only comprehensible to insiders.  

One dependable fact, however: Folks are entitled to housing vouchers, but there’s a waiting list. 

The Current’s public meeting list includes some housing authorities among the roughly 50 agencies and counting 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. 

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 🖥

Kingsland

St. Marys | 🖥

Chatham County

Bloomingdale

Chatham County Commission | 🖥

Chatham Board of Elections

Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission

Garden City

Pooler

Port Wentworth | 🖥

Savannah | 🖥

Savannah-Chatham Board of Education | 🖥

Tybee Island | City Council 🖥

Effingham County

Effingham County | Commission and Planning Board 🖥

Effingham County Industrial Development Authority

Glynn County

Brunswick | City Commission 🖥

Glynn County Commission | 🖥

Jekyll Island Authority

Liberty County

Hinesville

Hinesville Development Authority

Hinesville Downtown Development Authority

Liberty County | Commission 🖥

Liberty Consolidated Planning Commission

Liberty County Board of Education | 🖥

Midway

Walthourville

McIntosh County

McIntosh posts some schedules via The Darien News.

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

Darien

McIntosh County Industrial Development Authority

Multi-County

Middle Coastal Unified 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,...