About Engage Gwinnett

Engage Gwinnett: Citizens Committee for the Future of Gwinnett County is a citizen-led initiative where committee members will spend approximately six months looking at the community’s needs for current and future government services and proposing funding strategies to pay for those services over the next five years.

Engage Gwinnett will strategically involve the community in the process of making informed recommendations to the Board of Commissioners about future service levels, funding needs, and revenue resources. The committee is made up of representatives from 30 community stakeholder groups and 10 self-selected citizen leaders. The group will seek common ground, workable solutions, and compromises when necessary. The initiative was kicked off with a public meeting on September 9, 2009.

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Engage Gwinnett Community Meetings

The public is invited to attend any of four upcoming meetings to comment on the initial findings of the 42-member Engage Gwinnett citizens committee that, since last fall, has been studying county services and how to fund those services.

Each meeting will begin with an overview of the progress to date and the distribution of a handout that includes a brief report from the four different work groups. Attendees will have more than an hour to discuss and comment on the reports in small groups. That input will be combined with a brief survey and included in the group’s draft recommendations that will be available for a similar public review process in April. Later that same month, the committee will make its final recommendations to the Board of Commissioners on desired County services, service levels and revenue sources for the next five years.

For a list of dates and locations, please click here.



Engage Gwinnett Meeting, February 3, 2010

Engage Gwinnett conducted the ninth session of the full committee on Wednesday, February 3 at the Gwinnett Center. J. Mac Holladay, founder and CEO of Market Street Services, gave a presentation on economic growth in Gwinnett and explained what makes a county competitive. The work group spokespersons then gave reports from their individual groups – Norwood Davis for community services, Charles Swain for law enforcement and judiciary, Scott LeCraw for fire and emergency services, and Jose Perez for development and infrastructure. Afterwards, facilitator Jon Abercrombie discussed the committee’s process for moving forward and what they would be covering during workgroup sessions.

Within their individual workgroups, committee members continued discussing information presented to them and developing a work plan for the group’s final product, which will be a recommendation to the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners about desired services, service levels, and revenues for the next five years.

Engage Gwinnett has been recognized in an article by the National Association of Counties. Click here to read the full article.

To view the video brief from the February 3 meeting, please click here.

All full video summaries from the February 3 meeting will be available by Wednesday, February 10.

All previous Engage Gwinnett meeting videos are available on the Meeting Summaries page.