County Clerk

Stacey Scarboro, Emanuel County’s County Clerk is responsible for maintaining a complete and permanent history of actions taken by the Emanuel County Commissioners. 

As part of maintaining accuracy, she attends meetings of the Board of Commissioners, keeps a record of its proceedings, publishes and attests to all resolutions and ordinances passed by the Board, and seals and attests to all contracts of the County.

Stacey is the official custodian of records for actions taken by the Board of Commissioners. Her responsibilities include preparing and publishing agendas, preparing minutes and informational packets or notebooks for Board meetings, distributing Board actions, and maintenance of records for the Board of Commissioners. She also accepts the Open Records Requests for the Board of Commissioners.

The main duties and responsibilities of the County Clerk include: 

  • The County Clerk is responsible for a variety of tasks related to all County Commissioners Meetings

    • Preparing and distributing agendas and related documents and attending all Commission meetings

    • Making copies of the agenda and other documents as needed to be distributed to the public at meetings

    • Preparing minutes of Board meetings and distributes/posts approved minutes

    • Ascertaining training schedules for the Board of Commissioners and County Manager, scheduling the same, and confirms that Commissioners have completed required training courses/hours

    • Obtaining signatures on all official documents and distributing them to the appropriate personnel

  • As part of the responsibilities of the County Clerk, Stacey is responsible for media and public relations

  • In addition, the County Clerk

    • Assists the Board of Commissioners and County Manager with special projects, public information initiatives, grants and other administrative matters

    • Coordinates administrative issues with, and provides assistance to, other County Department Directors as needed

    • Provides requested records/information regarding public records of the Board of Commissioners
    • Assures compliance with Open Meetings/Open Records Act
    • Ensures that County ordinances are codified in a timely manner as required by State law
    • Ascertaining training schedules for the Board of Commissioners and County Manager, scheduling the same, and confirms that Commissioners have completed required training courses/hours
    • Maintains information on appointees, terms, etc. for all Boards, Commissions, and Authorities.  

      • Advertises vacancies, accepts and distributes applications, on behalf of and to, the Board of Commissioners

    • Other duties as needed/assigned.

The position of County Clerk is appointed by the Emanuel County Board of Commissioners. The duly appointed clerk is designated as the open records officer for the county.