Press Releases

DeKalb County Public Library Board of Trustees will hold a regular meeting on Monday, June 27 at 4:30 p.m. This meeting will be conducted via teleconference (Zoom). The Finance Committee will meet at 3:45 p.m. To listen in on the meeting, please request the link from weissingera@dekalblibrary.org no later than noon on the date of the meeting.

The DeKalb Board of Registration and Elections meeting for the purpose of conducting its normal monthly business will be held on Monday, June 27, 2022, at noon. In addition to regular business, the Board will certify the June 21 primary runoff election results. This meeting will be conducted via teleconference (Zoom). Simultaneous public access to the meeting will be available via livestream on DCTV’s UStream channel at https://video.ibm.com/channel/dctv-channel-23.

In June 2021, DeKalb Commissioner Lorraine Cochran-Johnson allocated $100,000 from the District 7 discretionary fund for Discover DeKalb to retain C.H. Johnson Consulting Inc. for the purpose of conducting comprehensive market analysis for the feasibility of a new event and hospitality epicenter in DeKalb County.

The DeKalb County Governing Authority today announces its intention to increase 2022 property taxes this year by 7.08 percent over the rollback millage rate. DeKalb County has six separate tax levies. Two of those levies (the general and hospital funds) are used in the required calculation for the rollback rate.

DeKalb County is making recreation centers and libraries throughout the county available as cooling centers due to the ongoing heat advisory. As defined by the National Weather Service's Peachtree City Forecast Office, a heat advisory is issued when “feels like” temperatures are expected to reach or be greater than 103 degrees, or when the actual air temperature is expected to be at 105 degrees or greater.