Lane Price resigns from Dougherty County School Board.
Price and her husband have already moved back to Decatur, Ala.
Dougherty County School Board members Robert Youngblood, left, Dean Phinazee and Lane Price are shown during a recent school board meeting. Price shocked the board Wednesday when she announced her immediate resignation. (Herald File Photo)
By Terry Lewis
ALBANY — Dougherty County School Board member Lane Price dropped a bombshell at the Dougherty County Board of Education meeting Wednesday, when at the end of the meeting, she announced her immediate resignation. She was expected to finish out her full term, which ends on Dec. 31.
But fate had other plans.
“My husband, Julian, and I have moved this week from Albany to our old hometown of Decatur, Ala,” Price said. “We had planned to make this move after the first of the year, but a new physician wanted to purchase our house, and the offer was such that we decided to go ahead and make this change now. Consequently, I am no longer living in Dougherty County.
“I therefore, very reluctantly, offer my resignation from the Dougherty County Board of Education.”
DCSS Superintendent Butch Mosely was shocked by Price’s sudden resignation.
“To tell you the truth, this was the first I’d heard of it,” Mosely said. “It’s going to take me a little time to wrap my head around this.”
Price, a retired physician, won her seat on the board in 2012 after upsetting incumbent Anita Williams-Brown in the Democratic primary. She then held off a late write-in challenge from Second Greater Mt. Olive Baptist Church Pastor Lorenzo Heard to take the seat.
“I have had the honor and challenge of serving as the at-large member of the Dougherty County Board of Education for the past four years,” Price said. “I have tried to be instrumental in restoring the dignity needed in our school system when it had reached its lowest ebb. These past four years have been true highlights of my entire life.
“I shall miss you, as I will Albany itself. I’ve made many friends here. But it’s time to go.”
As far as Price’s replacement, according to Dougherty County School System attorney Tommy Coleman the board has 30 days to make an appointment to the seat.
Multiple sources said the seat would likely be filled by Geraldine Hudley, who won the at-large board spot in May’s Democratic primary and was slated to be sworn in in January of 2017.
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