You can't rubber-stamp a decision that was made illegally.

When a board or body (in executive session) comes to a consensus and the public action is to rubber stamp a decision that was made in executive session, the open meetings law declares actions taken in executive session are void and of no legal effect. No decision can be made in closed session.

is not a rubber stamp.

We don't recommend just everybody. We don't want to be a rubber stamp.

We're not going to be a rubber stamp for what someone in Austin says we should be.

With a wife approving her husband's salary, it appears that this board's stamp is really just a rubber stamp,