Editing Garden City, Georgia (section)

==Politics==

===Municipal===
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|[[Image:Garden City Hall.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The building that is currently used as the [[City and town halls|Town Center]] of Garden City was opened to the public in 2009, under the administration of Mayor Andy Quinney.]]
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Garden City operated under a [[Mayor–council government|mayor–council]] form of government until 2009. It has adopted a [[Council–manager government|council-administrator]] style, and by 2011 it will replace its seven at-large council members by one at-large and five district-elected ones.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://savannahnow.com/node/685212 |title=Changes reshaping municipal government in Garden City, Savannah Morning News, March 8, 2009 |access-date=January 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713051727/http://savannahnow.com/node/685212 |archive-date=July 13, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

''For a list of past and present mayors and council members of Garden City, see [[List of mayors of Garden City, Georgia]].''

As of 2010, Garden City has never collected property taxes.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120712232655/http://old.savannahnow.com/stories/100303/LOC_gardencity.shtml Charles Cochran, Race seems like musical chairs, Savannah Morning News, October 3, 2003]</ref>

===Other levels of government===
Garden City is represented by:

* the 7th and the 8th districts on the boards of the [[Chatham County, Georgia|Chatham County]] Commission and the Savannah Chatham County Public School System
* the 162nd district in the [[Georgia House of Representatives|State House]]
* the 2nd district in the [[Georgia Senate|State Senate]]
* the [[Georgia's 1st congressional district|1st congressional district]] in Congress

In the last three decades, the area's county commissioners have been:

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!Inauguration!!Term expiration!!colspan="2"|7th district<br/>Commissioner!!Party!!colspan="2"|8th district<br/>Commissioner!!Party
|-
|1981
|1985
|bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|James M. “Jimmie” DeLoach<ref>DeLoach served as Mayor of Garden City in 1973–1979</ref>
|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]
|bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|L. Scott Stell Jr.
|Democrat
|-
|1985
|1989
|bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|James M. “Jimmie” DeLoach
|Democrat
|bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Dorothy Barnes Pelote
|Democrat
|-
|1989
|1993
|bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|James M. “Jimmie” DeLoach
|Democrat
|bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Dorothy Barnes Pelote<ref>Dorothy Barnes Pelote resigned in 1990 before the completion of her term of office and was elected to the [[Georgia House of Representatives]].</ref>
|Democrat
|-
|1993
|1997
|bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Eddie DeLoach<ref>Eddie DeLoach is the son of James M. “Jimmie” DeLoach.</ref>
|Democrat
|bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Dr. Priscilla D. Thomas<ref>Dr. Priscilla D. Thomas was elected to complete Dorothy Barnes Pelote's unexpired term and was re-elected to a full term in 1992.</ref>
|Democrat
|-
|1997
|2001
|bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Eddie DeLoach
|Democrat
|bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Dr. Priscilla D. Thomas
|Democrat
|-
|2001
|2005
|bgcolor={{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Dean Kicklighter<ref>Kicklighter served as Mayor of Garden City in 1998–2000</ref>
|[[Republican Party of the United States|Republican]]
|bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Dr. Priscilla D. Thomas
|Democrat
|-
|2005
|2009
|bgcolor={{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Dean Kicklighter
|Republican
|bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Dr. Priscilla D. Thomas
|Democrat
|-
|2009
|2013
|bgcolor={{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Dean Kicklighter
|Republican
|bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Dr. Priscilla D. Thomas
|Democrat
|-
|2013
|2017
|bgcolor={{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Dean Kicklighter
|Republican
|bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Dr. Priscilla D. Thomas
|Democrat
|-
|2017
|present
|bgcolor={{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Dean Kicklighter
|Republican
|bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|&nbsp;
|Chester A. Ellis
|Democrat
|}

Color code:
{{legend2|{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}|[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|{{party color|Independent (United States)}}|[[Independent (politics)|Independent]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}

===State representation===
The [[Georgia Department of Corrections]] operates the [[Coastal State Prison]] near Garden City.<ref>"[http://www.savannahga.gov/cityweb/CommServ.nsf/0/3fd39cb384a6334085256de20057df61/$FILE/neighborhoods08.pdf City of Savannah Neighborhoods 2008] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927152531/http://www.savannahga.gov/cityweb/CommServ.nsf/0/3fd39cb384a6334085256de20057df61/$FILE/neighborhoods08.pdf |date=September 27, 2011 }}." City of Savannah. Retrieved on September 15, 2010.</ref><ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20060527213833/http://www.dcor.state.ga.us/GDC/FacilityMap/html/coastal_state_prison.html Coastal State Prison]." [[Georgia Department of Corrections]]. Retrieved on September 15, 2010.</ref>