Larry Dodd who was just elected to the Wicomico County Council has a potential conflict of interest.
He also serves on the Wicomico County Board of Education.
For the moment Dodd says he will serve on both bodies at least until 2015.
He told the Salisbury Daily Times that with board of education Vice President Donald Fitzgerald’s term ending after 2014 he wanted to make it easier for Republican Governor-elect Larry Hogan to make both appointments at the same time.
But Wicomico County attorney Edgar Baker told the paper that by serving on both bodies Dodd would be in violation of the county charter and the state constitution.
Baker said that a county council member is not eligible for appointments to any compensated county office except the County Executive’s Office until year after they leave the council.
