Coastal Navigator — Voters reject local taxes

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November 9, 2026

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

Coastal Georgia voters say “no” to local taxes

Coastal Georgians may have swerved towards Democrats this year, but taxes remain as unpopular as ever.

Everywhere they got the choice, Coastal Georgia voters chose to nibble away at property taxes through larger exemptions, limiting the growth of a home’s taxable value, or, in Effingham’s case, using cash from the Open AI data center land transaction to offset homeowners’ taxes.

Every bite into property taxes bites into the public serves funded by them: the biggest single part of a property tax bill is generally public schools. The second costliest public service funded by property taxes in almost any community is public safety: police, a jail, courts and so on. Those could be county services or city services, depending where you live.

Effingham voters even made the unusual choice to end a penny sales tax that would have funded library and police buildings and park and road works. The Special Local Option Sales Tax was meant to raise $200 million over six years for selected projects, but it lost by 140 votes. That’s less than a 1% margin.

So watch for budget talk if you check out one of the city, county, school board or other public meetings on our calendar that covers this next two weeks. There might be hard decisions to make. Send us a selfie from any meeting on this list to staff@thecurrentga.org and we’ll send you a t-shirt from The Current GA.

Bryan County

Bryan County Board of Education | 🖥

Bryan Board of Education Thu. Nov. 19, 6:15 p.m. Check for agenda

Bryan County Development Authority

Bryan County Development Authority Tue. Nov. 10, 8:00 a.m. Agenda

Pembroke

Pembroke City Council second Mondays Mon. Nov. 9, 7:00 p.m. Agenda
Pembroke Planning and Zoning third Thursdays 7 pm Thu. Nov. 19, 7:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Richmond Hill | City Council 🖥

Richmond Hill: The Mayor’s Table Mon. Nov. 9, 9:00 a.m. Details
Richmond Hill: The Mayor’s Table Mon. Nov. 9, 6:00 p.m. Details
Richmond Hill Planning Commission Mon. Nov. 9, 6:00 p.m. Agenda
Richmond Hill City Council workshop Tue. Nov. 17, 6:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Bulloch County

Bulloch | County Commission 🖥

Bulloch Board of Elections and Registration Mon. Nov. 9, 1:30 p.m. Check for agenda
Bulloch County Commission Tue. Nov. 17, 8:30 a.m. Check for agenda
Bulloch Planning and Zoning Commission Tue. Nov. 17, 5:30 p.m. Check for agenda

Development Authority of Bulloch County

Development Authority of Bulloch County Tue. Nov. 10, 8:00 a.m. Agenda

Camden County

Camden | County Commission and Election Board 🖥

Camden open house for joint comprehensive transportation plan Mon. Nov. 16, 5:30 p.m. Details
Camden County Commission Tue. Nov. 17, 6:00 p.m. Check for agenda
Camden Planning Commission public hearing Wed. Nov. 18, 6:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Camden County Board of Education

Camden Board of Education work session and meeting Tue. Nov. 10, 6:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Camden County Joint Development Authority

Camden County Joint Development Authority Thu. Nov. 12, 9:00 a.m. Agenda

Kingsland

Kingsland City Council Mon. Nov. 9, 6:00 p.m. Agenda
Kingsland Downtown Development Authority Wed. Nov. 18, 4:30 p.m. Check for agenda

St. Marys | 🖥

St. Marys Planning Commission Tue. Nov. 10, 5:30 p.m. Agenda
St. Marys Orange Hall Management Committee Thu. Nov. 12, 9:30 a.m. Check for agenda
St. Marys City Council (3rd Monday) Mon. Nov. 16, 6:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Chatham County

Bloomingdale

Bloomingdale Planning and Zoning Commission second Mondays Mon. Nov. 9, 5:00 p.m.
Bloomingdale pre-agenda meeting and meeting Thu. Nov. 19, 6:30 p.m. Check for agenda

Chatham | County Commission 🖥

Chatham County Commission Fri. Nov. 20, 9:30 a.m. Check for agenda

Chatham Area Transit | 🖥

Chatham Area Transit fourth Tuesdays Tue. Nov. 24, 4:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Chatham Board of Elections

Chatham Board of Elections regular meeting second Mondays Mon. Nov. 9, 3:30 p.m. Agenda

Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission

Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission pre-meeting followed by regular meeting Tue. Nov. 17, 12:30 p.m. Agenda

Pooler

Pooler Planning & Zoning Mon. Nov. 9, 3:00 p.m. Check for agenda
Pooler Pooler Youth Council Tue. Nov. 10, 6:00 p.m. Check for agenda
Pooler City Council Workshop Mon. Nov. 16, 5:00 p.m. Check for agenda
Pooler City Council Mon. Nov. 16, 6:00 p.m. Check for agenda
Pooler Development Authority Thu. Nov. 19, 3:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Port Wentworth | 🖥

Port Wentworth City Council Thu. Nov. 19, 7:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Savannah | 🖥

Savannah City Council workshop and regular meeting Thu. Nov. 12, 9:00 a.m. and 2:oo p.m. Agendas
Savannah Pilotage Commission Wed. Nov. 18, 3:30 p.m. Agenda

Savannah Economic Development Authority

Savannah Economic Development Authority executive committee Thu. Nov. 12, 9:30 a.m. Check for agenda
Savannah Economic Development Authority Thu. Nov. 19, 11:00 a.m. Check for agenda

Savannah Housing Authority

Savannah Housing Authority second Wednesdays Tue. Nov. 10, 12:15 p.m. Check for agenda

Savannah-Chatham Board of Education | 🖥

Savannah-Chatham Board of Education Academic Excellence Committee Wed. Nov. 18, 10:00 a.m. Check for agenda

Savannah-Georgia Convention Center Authority

Savannah-Georgia Convention Center Authority Hotel Development Committee Tue. Nov. 10, 3:00 p.m. Agenda
Savannah-Georgia Convention Center Authority Wed. Nov. 11, 11:00 a.m. Agenda

Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt Town Council Tue. Nov. 10, 6:30 p.m. Agenda
Thunderbolt Planning and Zoning third Wednesdays Wed. Nov. 18, 6:30 p.m. Check for agenda

Tybee Island | City Council 🖥

Tybee Island Historic Preservation Commission Mon. Nov. 9, 6:00 p.m. Agenda
Tybee Island City Council workshop Thu. Nov. 12, 2:00 p.m. Agenda
Tybee Island City Council regular meeting Thu. Nov. 12, 6:30 p.m. Agenda

Effingham County

Effingham | County Commission and Planning Board 🖥

Effingham Board of Elections Mon. Nov. 9, 9:30 a.m. Agenda
Effingham Planning Board Tue. Nov. 10, 6:00 p.m. Agenda
Effingham County Commission typically first and third Tuesdays Tue. Nov. 17, 5:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Effingham County Industrial Development Authority

Effingham County Industrial Development Authority third Thursdays Thu. Nov. 19, 4:00 p.m. This agency does not post agendas online

Glynn County

Brunswick | City Commission 🖥

Brunswick Planning and Appeals Commission Thu. Nov. 12, 5:15 p.m. Check for agenda
Brunswick City Commission Mon. Nov. 16, 6:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Brunswick | Housing Authority 🖥

Brunswick Housing Authority work session Wed. Nov. 11, 9:00 a.m. Check for agenda
Brunswick Housing Authority meeting Mon. Nov. 23, 6:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Glynn | County Commission 🖥

Glynn BATS Technical Coordinating Committee Mon. Nov. 9, 1:30 p.m. Check for agenda
Glynn Mainland Planning Commission Tue. Nov. 10, 6:00 p.m. Agenda
Glynn Board of Assessors Thu. Nov. 12, 4:00 p.m. Check for agenda
Glynn County Commission special called meeting Tue. Nov. 17, 2:00 p.m. Check for agenda
Glynn Islands Planning Commission Tue. Nov. 17, 6:00 p.m. Check for agenda
Glynn SPLOST and Capital Project Quarterly Execution Review (QER) Wed. Nov. 18, 3:00 p.m. Details
Glynn County Commission Thu. Nov. 19, 6:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Glynn County Airport Commission

Glynn County Airport Commission Tue. Nov. 17, 9:00 a.m. Check for agenda

Jekyll Island Authority

Jekyll Island Authority Tue. Nov. 17, 9:30 a.m. Check for agenda

Liberty County

Flemington

Flemington City Council Tue. Nov. 10, 4:30 p.m. Check for agenda

Hinesville

Hinesville City Council Thu. Nov. 19, 3:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Hinesville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization

Hinesville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization Technical Coordinating Committee Thu. Nov. 12, 9:00 a.m. Agenda
Hinesville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization Citizens Advisory Committee Thu. Nov. 12, 4:00 p.m. Agenda

Hinesville Development Authority

Hinesville Development Authority third Tuesdays Tue. Nov. 17, 4:00 p.m. This agency does not post agendas online

Hinesville Downtown Development Authority

Hinesville Downtown Development Authority Wed. Nov. 11, 4:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Hinesville Housing Authority

Hinesville Housing Authority second Tuesdays Tue. Nov. 10, 3:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Liberty | County Commission 🖥

Liberty Board of Elections & Voter Registration special called meeting Mon. Nov. 9, 4:00 p.m. Agenda
Liberty Board of Assessors Tue. Nov. 10, 10:00 a.m. Check for agenda
Liberty Board of Commissioners Mid-Month Meeting Thu. Nov. 19, 5:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Liberty Consolidated Planning Commission

Liberty Consolidated Planning Commission Tue. Nov. 17, 4:30 p.m. Agenda

Liberty County Board of Education | 🖥

Liberty Board of Education Tue. Nov. 10, 5:30 p.m. Check for agenda

Midway | 🖥

Midway City Council second Mondays Mon. Nov. 9, 6:00 p.m. Check for agenda
Midway City Council work session fourth Mondays Mon. Nov. 23, 6:00 p.m. Check for agenda

Walthourville

Walthourville City Council millage rate hearing Mon. Nov. 9, 11:00 a.m. Agenda
Walthourville City Council millage rate hearing Mon. Nov. 9, 6:00 p.m. Agenda
Walthourville City Council and mayor Tue. Nov. 10, 6:00 p.m. Agenda

McIntosh County

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

Darien

Darien City Council work session Mon. Nov. 16, 5:30 p.m. Check for agenda
Darien City Council regular meetings third Tuesdays Tue. Nov. 17, 5:30 p.m. Check for agenda

McIntosh | County Commission 🖥

McIntosh County Board of Election Mon. Nov. 9, 4:00 p.m. Check for agenda
McIntosh County Commission Tue. Nov. 10, 10:00 a.m. Check for agenda

McIntosh County Board of Education

McIntosh Board of Education second Wednesdays Wed. Nov. 11, 6:00 p.m. Check for agenda

McIntosh County Board of Health

McIntosh County Board of Health Wed. Nov. 18, 8:30 a.m. Check for agenda

McIntosh County Industrial Development Authority

McIntosh County Industrial Development Authority workshop and meeting Mon. Nov. 16, 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. Check for agenda

Multi-County

Coastal Regional Commission

Coastal Regional Commission second Wednesdays Wed. Nov. 11, 10:00 a.m. Check for agenda

Georgia Legislature

Georgia Legislature Joint Study Committee on Generational Sustainability of Family Farms Fri. Nov. 20, 9:00 a.m. Check for agenda

Georgia Ports Authority

Georgia Ports Authority committee meetings Mon. Nov. 16, no time given, Check for agenda
Georgia Ports Authority full board meeting Tue. Nov. 17, 8:30 a.m. Check for agenda

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.

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Maggie Lee

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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,... More by Maggie Lee