Dougherty County Board of Education

6 meetings on our record, 2 of them from the past year and 4 with unconfirmed dates · 13,059 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Aug 27, 2026: Auditor gives Dougherty County schools unmodified opinion on 2025 financial statements Play 0:12
Newest meeting we have: Aug 27, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Velvet Edwards Poole, Chair · Norma Gaines-Heath, Board member · Carolyn Hand, Board member · Dean Phinazee, Board member · Melissa Strother, Board member · Geraldine West-Hudley, Vice Chair

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 2 h 16 minThursday, August 27, 2026Auditor gives Dougherty County schools unmodified opinion on 2025 financial statementsSchool closuresEnrollmentSpeakers: Geraldine West-Hudley, Carolyn Hand, Norma Gaines-Heath, James Bush and 1 more

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Board meeting · 1 h 22 minThursday, July 23, 2026Speakers: Carolyn Hand, James Bush

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The board

Who talks on this board

We compare who talks only where members sat for 8 or more meetings on our record; this board has 2 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingVelvet Edwards PooleChair · District 3 · shown, not ranked—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings

Members · listed by nameJames BushBoard member · District 53meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 3 meetings Norma Gaines-HeathBoard member · District 22meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings Carolyn HandBoard member · District 14meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 4 meetings Dean PhinazeeBoard member · District 61meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Melissa StrotherBoard member · District 4—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Geraldine West-HudleyVice Chair · At-Large2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings

Meetings on our record

All 6 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance8%2%–17%

Public comment2%0%–6%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–2%

Safety and discipline0%0%–32%

The two readers didn’t agree on 41% 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 6 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 6; 1 had at least one.

Federal district ID 1301830 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district