The Queen Anne’s County Board of Education voted recently to affirm an ethics panel’s finding that Superintendent Patricia Saelens violated ethics policy by participating in a furniture contract award to her brother’s employer. The Bay Times & Record Observer reports the ethics panel determined that Saelens failed to recuse herself from the procurement process for furniture for the district’s new central offices. The contract was awarded to W.B. Mason, where Saelens’ brother serves as Regional Furniture Manager in Annapolis.