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Dec. 15—The Athens City Council had a light agenda at its Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, meeting. Due to the Christmas holidays, the next council meeting will be held Monday, Dec. 18, at the Athens City ...
Jan. 10—The Athens City Council held a special called meeting Friday, Jan. 5, 2024, regarding 2023-2024 municipal appropriations. At its regular meeting held Monday, Dec. 18, 2023, the two ...
Nancy Denson is an American politician who served as mayor of U.S. city of Athens, Georgia, from 2011 to 2019. First elected mayor in 2010 and re-elected in 2014, Denson has been in public service since 1980 starting as an Athens City Council member.
In 1990, the governments of Clarke county and the city of Athens merged to form the Athens-Clarke County unified government. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Gwen O’Looney, 1991-1998 [ 17 ]
While Athens City Hall gets some security upgrades, locations for commission meetings is moving to the school district headquarters on Prince Avenue.
Kelly Darryl Girtz (born November 12, 1971) is an American educator and politician currently serving as mayor of the unified government of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, having succeeded Nancy Denson in January 2019. Before he was sworn in as mayor, Girtz maintained a long career as a teacher and school administrator in Northeast Georgia.
A candidate forum for Athens-Clarke County Commission seats addressed a "sanctuary city" resolution from 2019, housing, homelessness and more.
Athens is the sixth-most populous city in Georgia, and the principal city of the Athens metropolitan area, [9] which had a 2020 population of 215,415, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. [4] Metropolitan Athens is a component of the larger Atlanta–Athens–Clarke County–Sandy Springs Combined Statistical Area. [10]