Tony Folk installed as SCSBA president

Tony Folk, member of the Dorchester School District Four Board, was installed as president of the South Carolina School Boards Association (SCSBA) during the association’s annual Delegate Assembly held this past Saturday, December 8.

The association’s annual business meeting, which was held during the association’s Legislative Advocacy Conference, included voting delegates from most of the state’s 81 school boards. In addition to the election of association officers, delegates adopted resolutions to guide the association during the 2019 legislative session.

Folk was elected to the Dorchester School District Four Board in 1997. He has served as chairman and vice chairman since being on the board.  He has achieved Level Six, the highest level in the association’s Boardmanship Institute, a year-round training program offered by SCSBA.

Folk is a retired civil service employee with the U.S. Navy with 33 years of service.  He attends St. George United Methodist Church.

He and his wife Dicksi, a retired elementary school teacher, have two children and two grandchildren.

Folk follows Wesley Hightower as president. Hightower moves into the past president seat.

Officers elected to lead the association’s board of directors for a one-year term are as follows:

• President, Tony Folk, Dorchester School District Four
• President-elect, Chuck Saylors, Greenville County Schools
• Vice President, Cheryl Burgess, Lexington School District Three
• Secretary/Treasurer, Jamie Devine, Richland One School District

Others elected to serve a four-year term on the 23-member board of directors as regional directors are:

• Region 2, Cindy Bohn Coats, Charleston County School District
• Region 6, Charles Govan, Darlington County School District
• Region 8, Amelia McKie, Richland School District Two
• Region 10, Hannah Priester, Hampton District One
• Region 11, Tim Rhodes, Abbeville County School District
• Region 14, Travis Sloan, Spartanburg School District One

The South Carolina School Boards Association is a non-profit organization serving as a source of information and a statewide voice for boards governing the state’s 81 school districts.