Putnam County Board of Commissioners: the charter board whose posted 2025-2026 minutes name no veteran item, with American Legion Post 583 in Eatonton

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The Putnam County Board of Commissioners - Chairman Bill Sharp (706-752-8431), Vice Chairman Tom McElhenney (District 1), District 2 Commissioner Richard Garrett, District 3 Commissioner Stephen Hersey and District 4 Commissioner Jeff Wooten, at 117 Putnam Drive, Suite A, Eatonton (706-485-5826), governed under House Bill 248, Act Number 22 (May 14, 2003), with a county manager holding the day-to-day executive duties - whose posted 2025-2026 minutes read (the September 15, 2026 called meeting, its executive session and the September 17, 2026 town hall) name no veteran item, and whose deeper meeting files paginate behind the CivicClerk portal's JavaScript; American Legion Post 583 meets in Eatonton.

Also called: Board of Commissioners, Bill Sharp, Tom McElhenney, Richard Garrett, Stephen Hersey, Jeff Wooten, House Bill 248, CivicClerk, American Legion Post 583, 117 Putnam Drive, Eatonton, Eatonton, Crooked Creek, Rockville.

For: Veteran or service member.

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Putnam County, GACounty

The board. The county's Board of Commissioners page: "Putnam County is governed by a Board of Commissioners consisting of a chairman, elected county-wide, and four commissioners, one from each district, as provided for in House Bill 248, Act Number 22, signed by the Governor on May 14, 2003. The Board of Commissioners is a policy-making body that oversees the county's executive functions and assigns the day-to-day duties of the executive role to the county manager." The seats: Chairman Bill Sharp (706-752-8431); Vice Chairman, Commissioner District 1, Tom McElhenney (762-205-4731); Commissioner District 2 Richard Garrett (706-749-5573); Commissioner District 3 Stephen Hersey (706-485-0935); Commissioner District 4 Jeff Wooten (706-752-8432). The board's office: 117 Putnam Drive, Suite A, Eatonton, GA 31024, (706) 485-5826. The record. The county's meeting files live in its CivicClerk portal (putnamcoga.portal.civicclerk.com), where the fall 2026 events and their item reports and minutes were read in a browser session; the September 2026 minutes fetched whole - the September 15, 2026 called meeting, the executive-session minutes and the September 17, 2026 BOC town-hall minutes - name no veteran item, and the portal's 2025 pages paginate in JavaScript and were not read (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md). No benefit is known to have been adopted, narrowed or repealed. The county's own organizations. American Legion Post 583 meets in Eatonton, per the Department of Georgia's post list. No veterans organization appears in the board's posted 2026 minutes by name.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Putnam County Board of Commissioners: the charter board whose posted 2025-2026 minutes name no veteran item, with American Legion Post 583 in Eatonton
Gate	Rule
No eligibility - a board record	The record documents the board’s charter, its posted minutes and the county’s veterans organizations; it grants no individual entitlement.

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