How Lone Oak is run
Lone Oak spent $101,000 in the year to June 30, 2022, about $1,135 per resident. (A Census Bureau estimate.)
What stands out about how Lone Oak is run
Read from the town’s budget, meetings and records. The page puts what stands out first.
About $1,135 per resident a year, or $3.11 a day
The biggest line: administration & buildings, at 44% of spending.
Thank you for being a neighbor
Lone Oak didn’t report all of its 2022 figures to the Census Bureau, so most of these numbers are the Bureau’s estimates.
Meriwether County School District
Lone Oak’s K–12 school district, shared with Gay, Greenville, Luthersville, Warm Springs, Woodbury and more. It’s its own government, with a budget separate from the town’s.
Of the $19,298 per pupil, $9,549 goes to the classroom (teachers, aides, supplies); the rest to buses, buildings, counselors and administration. Building projects and debt payments aren’t in the per-pupil figure.
Georgia districts overall: 49% local, 39% state, 12% federal.
School year 2023–24. Census Bureau school finance survey.
Who’s in charge in Lone Oak
Local officials aren’t in the public records we use for Lone Oak yet. Neighbors can add them.
One full-time town employee for every 89 residents
On the payroll in March 2022.
By department full-time, plus part-time
Pay is March payroll times twelve, so it’s approximate. Part-timers count half in the bar lengths.
From town hall to Washington
Every level of government that speaks for Lone Oak.
- 1Your cityMayor & councilLocal officials aren’t on record yet.
- 2Georgia HouseState representatives
- 3Georgia SenateState senator
- 4GovernorStatewide
- 5U.S. HouseYour representative in Congress
- 6U.S. SenateBoth represent all of Georgia
Democrat · Republican · other or independent. Tap a name for their official page.
Reach Lone Oak’s government
Numbers and hours come from neighbors and the town’s own site (the Handbook). A new one goes live once two neighbors confirm it.
Questions about how Lone Oak is run?
Neighbors who’ve been to the meetings can help.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Budget and staff: U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Governments and Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances and the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll (for Lone Oak, mostly the Bureau’s estimates). School district: Census school finance survey. Property tax: Census American Community Survey, 5-year estimates. Representatives: Open States, the Census and congress-legislators.