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valid until after circuit court Judge Shore Robertson in April ordered a special referendum set for June 17 on changing the method of appointing school board members.
If the trustees had not acted on the invalid appointments prior to that date, assuming voters in the referendum favored switching to appointment by the board of supervisors, the two challenged positions from Wakefield and Hampton would have been acted on by the supervisors.
At the same time that the trustees acknowledged their earlier violation of the Freedom of Information Act, they also raised the possibility that they may have acted illegally in naming Eastham to just a two-year term.
Asked by the trustees to research the question. Commonwealth’s Attorney Douglas Baumgardner noted that, in order to stagger expiration of appointments, the trustees may fill a vacancy for one year or three years but not. under Virginia law, for two years.
At Friday’s meeting in the elementary school auditorium, Johnson admitted the earlier errors by the trustees, blaming the mistake of the two-year appointment on ‘‘bad legal advice.” He maintained that Eastham and Eldred have served as “de facto members” of the board since last July and. therefore all actions they took as members remain valid.
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