Bamberg County School District School Board

11 meetings on our record, 9 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 2 h 22 min · 1,767 students · 9 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 14, 2026: Bamberg County trustees approve 2026-2027 budget on second reading Play 1:59:02
Newest meeting we have: Sep 14, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Gwendolyn D. Bamberg, Board Member · Adrienne Blume, Board Member · Jeni Bunch, Board Member · Harriet Coker, Board Member · Naomi Eckels, Vice Chair · Cathy Griffin, Board Member · Tonya A. Sanders-Govan, Board Member

Watch the board’s yearA decision it made, its hours, its busiest night at the mic and where its time went, each with its source

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 2 h 02 minMonday, September 14, 2026Bamberg County trustees approve 2026-2027 budget on second readingChronic absenteeismReading and test scoresSpeakers: Adrienne Blume, Cindy Hurst, Naomi Eckels, Gwendolyn D. Bamberg and 1 more

Play 1:59:02

Board meeting · 2 h 54 minMonday, August 3, 2026Bamberg County board approves first reading of $27,120,779.59 budgetSpeakers: Cindy Hurst, Jeni Bunch, Harriet Coker, Naomi Eckels

Play 2:46:05

Board meeting · 2 h 22 minMonday, July 6, 2026Bamberg County trustees approve first readings of wellness and nonresident transfer policiesSpeakers: Cindy Hurst, Naomi Eckels, Cathy Griffin

Play 36:41

Special meeting · 1 h 48 minWednesday, June 10, 2026Speakers: Cindy Hurst, Naomi Eckels, Cathy Griffin

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 9 board meetings, Dec 8, 2025 – Sep 14, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatHow much of the members' speech we name isn't measured here yet.

Coverage not measured on whole meetings yet

Minutes = time we heard them speak per meeting, from the speech we have named so far, so each is a floor: at least that much.

Runs the meeting

David CorderBoard Chair · runs the meeting, not ranked—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—runs the meeting, counted apart—no question counted

Members · listed by seat

Gwendolyn D. BambergBoard Member · We could name only 9% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.2min, at least4 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Adrienne BlumeBoard Member · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.1min, at least2 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Jeni BunchBoard Member · We could name only 13% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.3min, at least4 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.8questions asked per meeting, at least

Harriet CokerBoard Member · We could name only 2% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.0min, at least3 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Naomi EckelsVice Chair · We could name only 28% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.8min, at least8 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.4questions asked per meeting, at least

Cathy GriffinBoard Member · We could name only 17% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.4min, at least5 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Cindy HurstBoard Secretary2.2min, at least9 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.8questions asked per meeting, at least

Tonya A. Sanders-GovanBoard Member · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.4min, at least2 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Minutes speaking per full board meeting held while seated; a meeting they missed or stayed silent in counts as zero · bar = minutes named so far · talk time only, never tone or stance · Hamlet

Meetings on our record

All 11 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance4%0%–14%

Public comment0%0%–2%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–23%

The two readers didn’t agree on 22% of the time; it counts toward no topic, so every share above is a floor.

Not shown: facilities, closures and enrollment, curriculum and instruction, student services and special education, labor and personnel, governance and policy, routine business, other subjects, whose checks haven’t passed

Public comment

Of the 11 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 9; 1 had at least one. The busiest, on Apr 13, 2026, heard from 1.

1 on Apr 13, 20261 speaker1 speaker0.1 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 4503916 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district