Advisory Committee Hearing Procedures. The committee will then establish the date, time and place for the hearing and so inform the unit member, NSCPA and the President. The committee shall admit and consider evidence submitted by the parties in the form of documents or the testimony of witnesses. The committee will arrange for the hearing to be videotaped. The unit member shall have the right to attend all evidentiary proceedings of the committee, to present evidence, to examine documents, to question witnesses, and to otherwise present any relevant evidence with respect to the statement of reasons for dismissal. The unit member shall also have the right to be represented by NSCPA or by an attorney at the unit member’s expense. Any party who wishes to use a court reporter to take a verbatim transcript may do so at party’s own expense. The committee shall adopt rules to be followed which ensure substantive and procedural due process including prior notice of witnesses to be called and documents to be offered in evidence at the hearing, no documents or witnesses not so listed shall be heard, except for the purpose of rebutting oral testimony of the other party or for other justifiable cause found to exist by the committee, and may admit probative evidence as well as exclude incompetent or repetitive evidence, as well as the procedures for compelling witnesses employed at the College to appear.
