The Cobb Board of Education will meet Thursday afternoon for its 2022 organizational meeting.
Board members will be voting on who will serve as chairman and vice chairman during the year, and also to set the meeting schedule.
Thursday’s meeting begins at 1 p.m. in the board room of the Cobb County School District central office (514 Glover St., Marietta).
The meeting agenda can be found here; the proceedings also will be live-streamed on the district’s BoxCast channel and on CobbEdTV, Comcast Channel 24.
Unlike regular school board public meetings, there will be no public comment period at the organizational meeting.
But it could be contentious, given the school board’s partisan divide over the last three years.
Each year the board votes on a chairman, which must be a different person from the previous year, and a vice chairman.
They are the presiding officers during the meetings and the chairman represents the board in an official capacity.
The chairman also has the power to place board business items on the meeting agendas unilaterally, as does Superintendent Chris Ragsdale.
Republicans hold a 4-3 majority, and while members of the Democratic minority have nominated one another for leadership positions, they have never gotten a GOP vote.
The 2021 chairman was Republican Randy Scamihorn of Post 1 in North Cobb, who under board policy cannot succeed himself.
Last year he was at the center of several controversies that involved procedures and votes during board meetings.
The first Cobb school board meetings of 2022, if adopted Thursday, will take place on Jan. 20.
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