Athens-Clarke County

Top issues

The five most-discussed unresolved issues, ranked by recorded discussion time (a measure of importance and contention), then by how many meetings they came up in.

Issues on upcoming agendas

Issues linked from the meetings scheduled in the next 10 days.

Recent updates

Issues with new information found in the last 7 days, newest first.

Upcoming meetings

Recent meetings

One page per meeting, summarizing every record we have of it (agenda, minutes, video and transcript).

Issues with near term decisions

Long running topics

No actions pending

Completed

Sources

Where the data comes from

• County website: https://www.accgov.com (Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, a consolidated city-county government)
• Agenda Center for all boards: https://accgov.com/AgendaCenter. One list covers every body, with agenda and minutes PDFs by date. Mayor and Commission agendas posted after a meeting carry outcome notes; they are annotated agendas, not minutes.
• Calendar: https://www.accgov.com/Calendar.aspx; Clerk of Commission: https://www.accgov.com/clerkofcommission
• Board pages: Planning Commission /840/Planning-Commission, Hearings Board /838/Hearings-Board, Mayor and Commission committees /317/Mayor-Commission-Committees, meeting information /176/Mayor-Commission-Meetings
• Meeting video: Athens-Clarke County YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@accgov (streams), also on ACTV Spectrum Channel 180 and at https://www.accgov.com/videos.
• Collected 2026-11-04 (added at Dewey's request).

Governing body

• Mayor and Commission (regular session 1st Tuesday 6 PM at City Hall; work session 2nd Tuesday 1 PM; agenda setting session 3rd Tuesday 6 PM): Mayor Kelly Girtz; Commissioners Patrick Davenport, Melissa Link, Tiffany Taylor, Allison Wright, Dexter Fisher, Stephanie Johnson, John Culpepper, Carol Myers, Ovita Thornton and Mike Hamby; Clerk of Commission Christine M. Howard
• Planning Commission (1st Thursday 6 PM): Chair Kristen Morales, Vice Chair Sarah Gehring; Planning Director Bruce Lonnee (unconfirmed)
• Hearings Board (variances and appeals; there is no Board of Zoning Appeals; 2nd Wednesday 3 PM): Chair Julianne Geddis
• Other bodies: Historic Preservation Commission, Legislative Review Committee, Government Operations Committee, Right-of-Way Use Ad Hoc Committee, Audit Committee, Board of Elections, Airport Authority and others

Data quality notes

• Read: minutes of the Mayor and Commission regular session of 2026-09-01, the special called session of 2026-09-15, and the Planning Commission of 2026-09-03 and 2026-10-01 (the latter only in part); agendas of the 2026-09-08 and 2026-10-13 work sessions, the 2026-11-04 regular session and the 2026-11-05 Planning Commission. The annotated agenda of 2026-10-06 was read only in its first part. All other meetings are listed from the Agenda Center only.
• The five rezone and special use ordinances adopted on 2026-09-01 (No. 26-09-72 to No. 26-09-76) are not matched to individual votes.
• The Planning Director comes from December 2024 news and committee rosters from a November 2025 page; both are unconfirmed. Whether the 2026-11-03 general election affects the Mayor and Commission seats was not checked.
• Meeting pages begin with 2026-09-01. No agendas are posted yet for the 2026-11-10, 2026-11-17 and 2026-12-01 Mayor and Commission meetings.