Show GILES PUTS CURB 1 ON BOARD VOTES Members of or public boards board can ca vote upon questions coming before such boards only at regular or special meetings of those bodies Attorney General Grover A. A Giles ruled Friday Mr Giles' Giles ruling was sought by David Gourley assistant state su superintendent superintendent su- su of public Instruction i ito to determine validity of a recent vote by the Morgan county school district board on selection of a school superintendent At a meeting of the school board on February 8 two members were said to have voted for and two against a candidate for The board president as- as did n not t vote a and the board members members' left the meeting place without officially adjourning Subsequently the boards board's clerk was instructed to indicate in the minutes that the meeting had been recessed and the president asked that he be recorded as voting In Inthe inthe inthe the negative The clerk queried the state superintendents superintendent's office who relayed the problem to the attorney general Action of the president In transmitting his hi's vote to the clerk several days following the meetIng meetIng meeting meet- meet Ing in my opinion would not be bea a valid vaUd act and should not be recognized by the clerk or in incorporated incorporated incorporated in- in into the board minutes Such a vote can be transmitted only In the course of a regularly convened meeting |