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You're in Macon-Bibb County, Commission District 5. These are the people and boards that make decisions where you live — and they're not all the same office. Here's who they are, and what each one actually controls.
Your county commissioner is Andrea Cooke. Your schools are run by the Bibb County School District, and your water comes from the Macon Water Authority — both separate from the county commission.
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Your commissioner is one of nine members of the Macon-Bibb County Commission. Together with the Mayor, they set the county's budget and property tax rate and decide local policy. Each commissioner represents one district — yours — and also votes on county-wide matters.
- Approving the county budget and setting the property tax (millage) rate
- Passing local ordinances and county policy
- Zoning, land use, and development decisions
- Funding for roads, drainage, and infrastructure
- Funding for the Sheriff's Office, fire, and other county services
- Parks, recreation, and county facilities
- Approving county contracts and appointments
In Macon-Bibb, a lot of what people blame on “the county” is run by a separate board or authority. Here's who really controls the stuff residents ask about most.
A separate, independently elected utility — not the county commission. It sets water, sewer, and stormwater rates and runs the pipes on its own.
Run by a separately elected Board of Education with its own budget and its own school tax. The county commission does not run the schools.
Code Enforcement handles violations and unsafe structures; the Land Bank Authority works to put vacant lots back into use. The commission sets the county's blight policy and the blight tax rate.
Planning & Zoning reviews the proposal and makes a recommendation. Your county commissioner and the full commission cast the binding vote — so this is one where your commissioner really does decide.
A separate authority that sets bus routes and fares. The commission does not run the buses.
Since consolidation, the elected Sheriff is the county's law-enforcement office. The commission funds it but does not run day-to-day policing.
The Board of Tax Assessors sets your property's value; the Tax Commissioner sends and collects the bill; the county commission and the school board each set a millage (tax) rate. No single office owns the whole bill.
A federally chartered agency that runs public and assisted housing. It operates independently and is not part of city or county government.
Watch your representatives at work — browse every meeting and agenda on the commission tracker.
Next election: November 2026 General Election on November 3, 2026. See what's on the ballot
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