Decision Number 198

Decision

It is therefore clear and we do decide that neither the South Central Jurisdictional Council nor the General Board of Education has authority to elect necessary replacements on the General Board of ]education between sessions of the South Central Jurisdictional Conference.

A vacancy in a jurisdictional representation in the General Board of Education in the interim between Jurisdictional Conferences shall be filled by the College of Bishops of that jurisdiction.

The authority given to a Jurisdictional Conference to elect members of the General Board of Education is a grant of authority that cannot be delegated.