Cobb Commissioner JoAnn Birrell will be sworn in for a fourth term next week.
Her swearing-in ceremony takes place Wednesday, Jan. 4 in the second floor Board of Commissioners Meeting Room, 100 Cherokee St., downtown Marietta, starting at 3 p.m.
A reception follows in the learning center.
Birrell was re-elected in November from District 3, which includes most of East Cobb. She is one of two Republicans on the five-member board.
The other, Keli Gambrill of District 1 in North Cobb, was sworn in for a second term before Christmas.
They were the only commissioners up for election in 2022.
District 3 has included Northeast Cobb and most of the city of Marietta.
It’s unclear where the lines for the new District 3 will fall in January, however.
The Georgia legislature approved reapportioned maps to include most of East Cobb in District 3.
But Cobb County is officially challenging those lines following a vote by the board’s Democratic majority under home rule provisions.
The Democrats want to keep essentially the same lines that apply today after District 2 commissioner Jerica Richardson was redrawn out of her East Cobb home.
Those maps have been filed with the legislative reapportionment office. Cobb is expecting the state to file a legal challenge.
Birrell has said previously that while she doesn’t think what happened to Richardson was fair, she doesn’t think the county’s legal challenge will succeed.
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- Cobb approves short-term rental ordinance, other code amendments
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