Board member selected as state school board treasurer

Board member

selected as state school board treasurer

Coweta County

Board of Education member D. Smith Pass was elected June 22 to serve as

the Georgia School Board Association's treasurer, a three-year term.

Pass was elected

for the post at the GSBA's Summer Conference and Delegate Assembly in

Savannah July 20 - 23. More than 600 school board members, superintendents

and other educational leaders from around the state met for the annual

assembly.

All seven Coweta

County school board members attended this year's conference, and member

Bill Covington served as a voting delegate at the assembly.

Coweta board

member Marihope Shirey Troutman nominated Pass for the post earlier in

the year, and Pass interviewed with GSBA's nominating committee in February.

The post of

GSBA treasurer requires the officer to serve as a steward of the association's

funds and financial records. Pass's duties will include serving on the

association's executive committee, conducting an annual examination of

association records, assisting in the preparation of an annual budget,

and presenting a financial report to the Board of Directors and the Delegate

Assembly.

"I'm looking

forward to serving on the executive committee, because they make decisions

that affect all the school board's in Georgia," said Pass. "GSBA

is an invaluable resource for school board members."

The new post

will also mean monthly GSBA meetings for Pass. Her first will be in July.

Pass said she looks forward to her service on the executive committee,

and has a few pet projects she would like to focus on.

"Personally,

I hope that we can continue our technology initiative most of all, so

we can expand distance learning opportunities in the rest of the state,"

said Pass.

Pass has served

on the Coweta County Board of Education since 1995. She chaired the School

Climate Committee on the Governor's Education Reform Study Commission

in 1999, and the commission's Personnel Committee in 2000. Pass is a member

of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in

Education, and has served on the Georgia School Board Association's Federal

Relations Network.