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Nov 15, 2024 · Submitted information and photo: During the 2024 grant cycle, the Capital City Bank Group (CCBG) Foundation reinvested $13,500 into the Cobb County community, awarding grants to Cobb Collaborative, Marietta Schools Foundation, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, 10 Women of Hope, Cobb & Douglas Public Health and Communities In Schools of Georgia.
2024 Cobb primary election day preview: Candidates, ballots, more
May 18, 2024 · To check your polling station and which races will be on your ballot, visit the Georgia Secretary of State’s GA My Voter Page.. All voters must go to the polls with proof of identification (details here).Here are the key contested races on the ballot for East Cobb voters; they do not include candidates who are running unopposed and will be on the general election ballot in November:
East Cobb Votes: Close school board races; transit tax fails
Nov 6, 2024 · UPDATED, 12 A.M.: The ballot-counting in Cobb County is continuing into Wednesday, without much significant change in local election results. Here’s our special link with real-time results for races in the East Cobb area from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.
Proposed Cobb FY 2025 $1.27B budget raises property taxes
Jun 25, 2024 · The proposed Cobb County government budget of $1.27 billion for fiscal year 2025 won’t be raising any property tax rates. But it won’t be scaling them back, so due to rising property assessments, that constitutes a tax increase according to state law.
Dates set for special elections for Cobb commissioner seats
Nov 13, 2024 · The special elections were ordered by a Cobb judge in July after she struck down electoral maps that the commission’s Democratic majority approved in 2022, claiming home rule redistricting powers.. Those maps had part of East Cobb in District 2. But the ruling declared that only the Georgia legislature can conduct county reapportionment and that the “home rule” maps were unconstitutional.
2024 Cobb property tax bills mailed; payments due by Oct. 15
Aug 14, 2024 · Property owners in Cobb’s seven cities are billed by their respective municipal governments. More than half the revenue to be collected by Cobb will go for Cobb County School District operations, followed by the Cobb government’s general fund and the Cobb fire fund.
Cobb school district opens 2024-25 school choice slots
Jan 27, 2024 · The Cobb County School District has opened up its annual period for school choice transfers for the following school year. The deadline to apply for a school choice transfer for the 2024-25 academic year is Feb. 16.
Cobb Water System launches new online payment system
May 7, 2024 · Submitted information: As of May 6, 2024, we have a new billing system with a new Customer Self-Service portal. This portal has enhanced features including the ability to submit online requests for: senior discounts, water service, payment plans, leak adjustments, general adjustments, etc.
East Cobb Votes: District Attorney upset; Commission runoff
May 21, 2024 · L-R: Lisa Cupid; Flynn Broady; Jaha Howard. UPDATED, TUESDAY, 10:10 A.M.: Cobb Commission Chairwoman Lisa Cupid easily won her Democratic Party Primary on Tuesday, defeating Shelia Edwards with more than 69 percent of the vote.
Cobb early voting interactive map shows wait-time estimates
Oct 12, 2020 · UPDATED FOR RUNOFFS, DEC. 14: Here’s more information about early voting for the U.S. Senate runoffs, which continues through Dec. 31 at several locations in Cobb County, including the East Cobb Government Service Center (4400 Lower Roswell Road).. And here’s the link to the interactive map from Cobb GIS, which is updated periodically during the day by poll managers at the early voting ...