Education
Special election will fill District 6 school board seat
Kristie Baxley has resigned her District 6 (Pawleys Island/Litchfield) seat on the Georgetown County School Board.
Baxley’s resignation was approved by the board this week.
Baxley and her husband sold their house in Litchfield Country Club in February, according to county property records.
She declined to comment as the board went into executive session.
In her letter of resignation sent to to Board Chairman Keith Moore on March 20, Baxley wrote: “I am resigning due to personal reasons. I will relinquish all of my responsibilities and privileges as a board member effective April 9, 2025.”
During the comments period of the meeting Baxley said she ran for “a lot of reasons” but two things close to her heart were safety and special resources.
She encouraged the other board members to find out more about – and support – the district’s Child Find program, which identifies students will disabilities so they can get the educational support they need.
“Until we’re not putting children on buses for 30 minutes each way that can’t communicate, we’ve got some work to do,” she said.
Baxley offered to continue to give the board ideas and solutions on the issue.
“I’ve been there, I’ve been through it,” she said.
Baxley was unopposed in the November election to fill the seat formerly held by Lynne Ford, whose home ended up outside of the district in the redistricting that followed the 2000 census.
State law allowed Ford to serve out her term even though she no longer lived in the district, since that was through no fault of her own.
The election to fill the District 6 seat will be July 8.
Under state law, an election to a nonpartisan seat occurs 13 Tuesdays after a resignation takes effect.
Filing for the seat will begin at noon on April 25 and will last for 10 days.
The school district will have to pay for the election.
Aphra McCrea, the county’s director of elections and voter registration, estimates it will cost between $4,000 and $5,000.
There are five precincts in District 6, but it is possible the county will only use one since turnout is expected to be light.
There will also be an early voting period.
Jim Dumm was the last school board member to resign. His resignation took effect on Dec. 31, 2022.
Kathy Anderson was elected March 29, 2022, to serve out Dumm’s term and then elected to a full term in November 2022.
