Vote Yes to DeKalb County Reform - SB52

If you are voting early absentee, please be sure to mark the following question Yes.

"Shall the Act be approved which provides for the presiding officer to preside over meetings of the DeKalb County Commission and for the commission to establish its own agenda for such meetings?"

The full text of the law is found here and the AJC just wrote a nice article here

Early voters casting absentee ballots at the county election office will be the first to say whether the county commission’s presiding officer should run board meetings and whether the commission should set its own agenda. Every member of the county commission supports the proposal now, including newly elected CEO Burrell Ellis, who would become the first chief executive to operate under it.

If voters go for the change, it will end more than two decades of strong — some say autocratic — control by a succession of county chief executive officers.