In Re the Petition for Writ of Certiorari as to the Wrongful Payments of Attorney Fees Made by the Brookings School District School Board

ZINTER, Justice.

[¶ 1.] Craig Culver, Leon Pesall, Marcia Williams, Henry Williams, Robert Thorson, Hugh Barnett, Robert Schwartz and Diane Culver (Taxpayers) obtained a writ of certiorari setting aside a Brookings School. Board (Board) payment of legal fees. The Board had reimbursed two private citizens for the legal fees they incurred in their private legal action to overturn a decision of a school election recount board. The circuit court granted the writ, concluding that the Board’s reimbursement of private attorney fees was in excess of its authority. We hold that, under the spécifíc…