either inconsistent with his legal duties or subject to legal challenge.... If as chief executive officer of the municipality, the mayor is to carry out the legislative decisions of the council certainly he has standing to inquire by a declaratory judgment proceeding whether those decisions are legally made.” 358 So.2d at 441. Additionally, the Court noted the trial court’s finding that “ ‘[t]he practice complained of by [the mayor] has resulted in the expenditure of large sums of funds and the conduct of other business of the City which affects the rights of the [mayor] and his fellow citizens.’ ” Id. Thus, the Court held that the mayor had standing to bring the action because he had suffered an actual injury. See also Cleburne County Bd. of Educ. v. Payne, 518 So.2d 49 (Ala.1987)(<HOLDING>). Unlike the public officials in Prichard and
holding that a collective bargaining agreement between school board and teachers union established a teachers legitimate claim of entitlement to their positions at elementary school holding a board of education independently liable despite the intentional nature of the conduct of its employee a school principal holding that members of the board of trustees of an elementary school had standing to challenge the actions of the county board of education because they suffered an actual injury when the county board nullified their unanimous vote to reject a candidate for principal of the elementary school holding that petitioners status as school board members does not permit them to step into the shoes of the school board and invoke its right to appeal holding that a county ordinance imposing an impact fee on new residential construction to be used for new school facilities did not constitute an unauthorized delegation of power from the county to the school board because the fundamental policy decisions were made by the county and the discretion of the school board was sufficiently limited