Membership
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD 2020 MEMBERSHIP INVOICE Annual Membership Our Annual Membership is open to all County Officials. Please click here to purchase your membership today. Membership Privileges: Member Only meetingsMember only newsletterMember only eventsEducation & Training SessionsNetworking Sessions If you would rather send a check by US Mail you may mail your payment to: Charles, Rousseau, (Fayette County Commissioner)Treasurer, GABCOFayette County, Georgia 140 Stonewall Ave. W,Fayetteville, GA 30214 EMAIL: GABCOMembership@gmail.com CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD 2020 MEMBERSHIP INVOICE MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS Must be a county official in the state of Georgia.
Events
Our Annual Conference is a great way for County officials around the state to gather, network and learn best practices. We have two meetings per year. The mid year meeting held in Savannah, Ga in April of each year, during the annual ACCG training conference. The second meeting is our annual meeting which typically rotates from county to county. If you or your county would like to host our annual meetings, please email us at GABCOMembership@gmail.com. April 2021 Mid Year MeetingChatham County (Savannah, GA) August 2021 Annual Meeting*County TBD Previous Annual Meetings 2017 Cobb County Hosted By Commissioner Lisa N. Cupid 2018 Fulton County Hosted By Commissioner Marvin S. Arrington, Jr. 2019 Bibb County Hosted By Commissioner Al Tillman 2020 Held Virtually Via Zoom Click Here For Live Recording
Resources
Please find a list of useful resources below: Association of County Commissioners of Georgia (ACCG) Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) State of Georgia Georgia Superior Court Clerk Cooperattive Authority (GSCCCA) Georgia Secretary of State NABCO.ORG National Association of Black County Officials NACO.ORG The National Association of Counties ACCG.ORG Ensures that Georgia counties can provide the necessary leadership, services and programs to meet the needs of their citizens.
Georgia Counties
There’s just over 3,000 counties in the United States, which serve as the principal political subdivision of a state. Each state has divided itself into specific political areas known as counties (or as “parishes” in Louisiana and “boroughs” in Alaska). In each county, local officials act as arms of state government, performing many state-related functions, such as administering elections, marriage licenses, and vehicle registration. In Georgia, counties are the largest general-purpose form of local government. This means that apart from helping administer state government functions, counties can provide a variety of local services to their citizens. In this role, some large urban counties resemble cities in the types of local government services they provide. Source: GeorgiaInfo Appling County Athens-Clarke County ATKINSON County Bacon County Baker County Baldwin County Banks County Barrow County Bartow County Ben Hill County Berrien County Bibb County Bleckley County Brantley County Brooks County Bryan County Burke County Bulloch County Butts County Calhoun County CAMDEN County Candler County Carroll County Catoosa County Charlton County Chatham County Chattahoochee County Chattooga County Cherokee County Clay County Clayton County Georgia has 159 counties, second only to Texas, which has 254. No matter where you live in Georgia, you reside in a county.