THOMASTON — The Executive Committee of the Georgia High School Association, with the cloud of changes proposed by the Georgia Assembly last month hanging over it like a Georgia afternoon thunderstorm, unanimously approved a proposal Monday to allow executive director Gary Phillips to retire at the end of the current school year.
The proposal from Jesse Crews of Charlton County and Bruce Potts of Sonoraville High School was introduced and passed after the original recommendation from the Board of Trustees, which was virtually identical and would have had the same result, was rejected by the executive committee.
Phillips has been under fire since last Spring. The resignation is expected to appease certain members of the Georgia Assembly, who brought proposed legislation calling for Phillips's resignation to committee for consideration or face the possibility of having the GHSA dissolved and taken over by the state government if he refused to step down.
