Chairman Chester Ellis and Commissioner Patrick Farrell Chatham County Board of Commissioners On September 20, Chairman Chester Ellis and First District Commissioner Patrick Farrell spoke to the Skidaway Hamiltons and Abigails. Commissioner Farrell, who has represented the Islands since 2005, is one of eight Commissioners in Chatham County. He outlined […]
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Shalena Cook Jones Chatham County District Attorney On May 17, 2022, District Attorney Shalena Cook Jones spoke at a hybrid live/Zoom meeting of Skidaway Hamilton and Abigails. She reminded us that Georgia and Chatham County had exceptionally high rates of incarceration and that people of color and people below the […]
Mayor’s Housing Task Force and Affordable Housing Initiatives in Savannah Brynn Grant, Pres. UWCE, Mayor’s Housing Task Force Martin Fretty, Director Savannah Housing and Neighborhood Services April 12, 2022 Mayor Van R. Johnson, II appointed the Housing Savannah Task Force in August 2020 to develop an action plan that addresses […]
Meeting Recap – Melanie Wilson, MPC – Land Planning for Sea Level Rise On March 15, 2022, in a hybrid in person and online meeting, Skidaway Hamiltons welcomed Melanie Wilson, Executive Director Chatham-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) to discuss how the critical issue of rising sea levels and flooding in […]
Supporting New Afghan Refugees Lindsey Grovenstein, Inspiritus Savannah Zoom meeting February 15, 2022 Meeting Summary On February 15, Ms. Lindsey Grovenstein, Community Engagement Specialist with Inspiritus Savannah, made a Zoom presentation to a group of Skidaway Hamiltons and Abigails on what Inspiritus is doing for Afghan refugees. Also on the […]
Meeting Recap Margaret Coker, Editor-in-Chief of The Current Reviving American Democracy: How In-Depth Local Journalism Fosters Engaged Citizenry Margaret Coker spoke via Zoom to a group of Skidaway Hamiltons and Abigails on January 18, 2022. This nation is founded on the idea of an engaged citizenry, which implies that journalism […]
Meeting Recap Bill Broker and Shaina Thompson, Georgia Legal Services Evictions: Landlord-Tenant Issues in Savannah Bill Broker, the Managing Attorney in the Savannah regional office at Georgia Legal Services (GLS), and Shaina Thompson, the Eviction Prevention Project Attorney for GLS, spoke via Zoom to a group of Skidaway Hamiltons and […]
Criminalization of Poverty in Savannah/Chatham County Coco Papy, Director of Public Policy and Communication, Deep Center of Savannah On November 16, Coco Papy of the Deep Center made an extremely informative Zoom presentation to the Skidaway Hamiltons and Abigails. “Criminalization of poverty” has two common aspects: 1) laws, policies, and […]
Hamiltons Meeting Summary Judge Benjamin W. Karpf, Chatham County Superior Court Challenges Presented by COVID for Chatham County Superior Court On October 12, 2021, Judge Benjamin Karpf addressed the Hamiltons and Abigails via Zoom on the topic “Challenges Presented by COVID for Chatham County Superior Court.” Judge Karpf pointed out […]