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The board introduced and discussed action item No. 5 at the meeting and voted to use a paper ballot to appoint the replacement. The board attorney announced: \"The board has selected, Mr. Chance Beam to fill Mr. Harmon's unexpired term as board member for District 3.\" The transcript does not include a roll-call vote or a numerical tally tied to the selection.

Board members thanked the pool of applicants and described the choice as difficult. The board chair (unnamed in the transcript) said: \"We had a lot of great candidates. Everyone had some amazing resumes and this is always a tough choice.\" The chair also thanked applicants who submitted their names and applications.

The meeting record shows the procedure included a motion to move to paper ballot prior to the selection; the motion was seconded and the board proceeded with the appointment. The transcript does not record the full paper-ballot results or who made the motion and second by name. The board attorney formally announced the selected appointee and the chair offered public thanks to applicants.

The selected appointee, Chance Beam, was named to serve the remainder of Mr. Harmon's unexpired term for District 3; the transcript does not specify the term end date, swearing-in details, or any immediate committee assignments. Board members thanked applicants and adjourned the meeting following the appointment.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Cherokee County Board of Education Business Meeting - February 13, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","The Board selected Chance Beam to fill the unexpired District 3 term of Mr. Harmon at the Feb. 13 meeting; the board used a paper-ballot appointment process and thanked applicants for applying.","taxTitle","Cherokee County, School Districts, Georgia","taxId",72639,"location","Georgia","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6326143,"Cherokee County School Board votes to opt out of statewide floating homestead exemption",486,810815,1297360,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2326407-d57f977f805d41da27f4ec6fd0875e39&start=810&end=1297","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2326407-d57f977f805d41da27f4ec6fd0875e39/thumbnail_810815.jpg","/articles/6326143/Georgia/Cherokee-County-School-Board-votes-to-opt-out-of-statewide-floating-homestead-exemption","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6326143-7dc62fe0b640914e18b5f9c18deb5d44/orig.mp4?Expires=1773239057&Signature=CwEPO-Sf30~1kSV-Q-effgMjbQ5hobZ1~Bp~yz-dTWRrMyW99O-DkGcSQxR0LbxIuG94PEcFdekib34~z4JYO-CQ1gp7fqCW4sV4x2Y-1fa06ljbljRaSq6g5CbUTRqsgTUFQFXcqgjgE8VVRJF45UxlvkzoAGOp-HAbp5psGALeCEBXEuJudd9SsCls3Z50LkEUV6cxJqHjTC~2xtakS7Dr8XZY~h3FS3Tb6h54Cccvz4RVtUVorys1UD~yl4e9gbLuxmtDVtm3Y6B80MuJH4vzPGtlPE7AHUNS34shirpi4s8bOpSnuMs4F1T8RM29C3~6HojkmH5O4nECWU4dow__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Cherokee County School Board voted Feb. 13 to adopt a resolution opting the district out of the Statewide Floating Homestead Exemption.

Board members said the opt-out is intended to protect funding for teachers, student services and instructional days. A resident who spoke during public participation urged the board not to opt out, saying the change would shift a larger tax burden onto homeowners.

Board discussion and public comment focused on the exemption’s potential effect on the school district’s revenue and on homeowners. Brent Heron, introduced at the meeting as a 20-year resident of Cherokee County and taxpayer, said he had spoken earlier at a hearing and urged the board “to not opt out and to provide homeowners relief.” He also argued that the analysis presented to the board assumed no new home sales or additional homesteads and said that, in his view, opting out would impose higher taxes mainly on homeowners.

A board member who moved the resolution (identified in the transcript as \"Board Member (speaker 7)\") made the motion to opt out of the floating homestead exemption; a second was recorded but not identified by name in the meeting transcript. Multiple board members described the choice as one made to protect students and staff. One member (identified in the transcript as \"Chair (speaker 1)\") said: \"I would like to make a comment. I know this is a tough decision ... I was elected to do what's best for kids.\" Another board member (identified in the transcript as \"Board Member (speaker 9)\") described the exemption’s effect on district funding and said the decision was driven by concern over possible furlough days and other cuts to instructional time if revenues declined.

The transcript records that some board members placed responsibility for the situation with the state legislature. One board member (identified in the transcript as \"Board Member (speaker 7)\") told residents: \"You should be ashamed of your legislative body who wrote this law. They wrote a bad law. They put every district, every county, every city in the state in a bad position.\" The board also referenced guidance from the Georgia School Boards Association (GSBA) about members’ fiduciary responsibilities to prioritize students.

When the board called the roll on the motion to adopt the \"Statewide Floating Homestead Exemption Resolution,\" the chair announced, \"The motion carries.\" The transcript does not include a numerical vote tally or the names of individual members as yes/no on the record.

Background discussion earlier in the meeting and during the public hearing referenced a projected revenue impact that board staff and the district CFO had presented; the transcript records references to a $50,000,000 figure as part of that earlier analysis but does not provide the CFO’s full presentation text in the meeting record. The resident commenter also cited a voter-approval figure and a personal estimated tax change: he said \"70% of the voters of Cherokee County voted for this homestead exemption\" and that, in his case, the exemption would have saved about $2,500 in taxes if it had been in place since 2020.

The board adopted the resolution to opt out; the meeting record does not include further immediate budgetary actions tied to the vote. Staff and board members indicated budget and staffing impacts—such as furlough days and teacher retention—were factors in their decision. The board did not supply a detailed, itemized fiscal plan tied directly to the opt-out vote during the meeting.

The district’s next steps on budget adjustments or public communications related to the opt-out were not specified at the meeting.","At its Feb. 13 meeting the Cherokee County School Board adopted a resolution to opt out of the Statewide Floating Homestead Exemption, a move board members said is intended to protect school funding; a resident urged the board not to opt out, saying homeowners would be disproportionately affected.","actionData","errors"]

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Cherokee County School Board votes to opt out of statewide floating homestead exemption