York County school board looks at how it disciplines board members

Good morning! We preview a plan to fine-tune how York's school board disciplines its fellow members. We'll also take a look at the race for supervisor in James City County's board of supervisors race

Clockwise from top left: School Superintendent Victor Shandor, Board members Kimberly Goodwin, James Richardson, Mark Shafer, Zoran Pajevic, Lynda Fairman

After months of wrangling with its former chair, York County’s school board is meeting Wednesday to discuss changes to the document that governs how school board members should behave and how they will be disciplined,

The proposed changes to the Board Norms and Protocols document would remove a sanction that restricts communications by the offending board member but adds a series of increasing levels of sanctions that can last for the board member’s entire term in office.

School board members were threatened with potential legal action by the board’s former chair, Lynda J. Fairman, who was removed as chair after a short and contentious run last year. At the same time, the school attorney warned Fairman’s actions could generate a breach of contract lawsuit from the school superintendent.

Fairman, representing the 5^th district, was repla…