The Tallapoosa County School Board’s new chief school financial officer Phil Blasingame attended his first school board meeting Monday since accepting the position.
The local native was previously regional president at Aliant Bank in Alexander City and took the place of the school system’s former CSFO Tommy Thweatt, who now serves as assistant to the CSFO.
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