Press Releases

Due to a brief delay in voting, one DeKalb County precinct will remain open until 7:15 p.m. to provide voters with extended time to cast their ballots in the primary runoff election. The Woodridge Elementary precinct, located at Woodridge Elementary School, 4120 Cedar Ridge Trail A in Stone Mountain, experienced a brief delay in processing voters and will remain open until 7:15 p.m. – an additional 15 minutes beyond typical poll closing.

The DeKalb County Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Affairs has cancelled the second community meeting for Pleasantdale Park that was scheduled for Thursday, June 23, from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. For more information, contact LaShanda Davis, Recreation, Parks and Cultural Affairs public relations specialist, at 404-371-3643 or lsdavis@dekalbcountyga.gov.

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.