Common use of Authority of the Board Clause in Contracts

Authority of the Board. It is mutually agreed that there is reserved exclusively to the Board all responsibilities, powers, rights, and authority vested in it or heretofore otherwise properly exercised by it under the laws and constitutions of the State of Michigan and the United States excepting such matters or things as may be expressly and in specific terms limited by the provisions of this Agreement. It is understood and agreed that the Board may continue to make and enforce any and all reasonable rules and regulations and policies relative to anything whatever necessary for the proper establishment, maintenance, management, and carrying on of the public schools of the district as provided in Section 614 of the Michigan School Code of 1955, as amended. The rights of the Board shall include, by way of illustration and not by way of limitation, the right to: 1. Manage and control its business, its equipment, and its operations and to direct the working forces and affairs of the L'Anse Creuse Public Schools school district. 2. Continue its rights, policies, and practices of assignment and direction of its personnel, determine the number of personnel and scheduling of all the foregoing, and the rights to establish, modify or change any work or business or school hours or days, but not in conflict with the specific provision of this Agreement. 3. The right to direct the working forces, including the right to hire, promote, suspend, and discharge employees, transfer employees, assign work or duties to employees, determine the size of the work force and to lay off employees, but not conflict with the provisions of this Agreement. 4. Determine the services, supplies, and equipment necessary to continue its operations and to determine all methods and means of distributing, disseminating, and/or selling its services, methods, schedules, and standards of operation; the means, methods, and processes of carrying on the work including automation or contracting thereof or changes therein, the institution of new and/or improved methods or changes therein. 5. Adopt reasonable rules and regulations. 6. Determine the qualification of employees, including physical conditions. 7. Determine the number and location or relocation of its facilities, including the establishment or relocations of new schools, buildings, departments, divisions or subdivisions thereof, and the relocation or closing of offices, departments, divisions or subdivisions, buildings, or other facilities. 8. Determine the placement or operations, production, service, maintenance or distribution of work, and the source of materials and supplies. 9. Determine the financial policies, including all accounting procedures. 10. Determine the size of the management organization, its functions, authority, amount of supervision and table of organization, provided that the Board shall not abridge any rights of employees as specifically provided for in this Agreement. 11. Determine the policy affecting the selection and training of employees providing that such selection shall be based upon lawful criteria. The above are not to be interpreted as abridging or conflicting with any specific provision in this Agreement.

Authority of the Board. It is mutually agreed that there is reserved exclusively to the Board all responsibilities, powers, rights, and authority vested in it or heretofore otherwise properly exercised by it under the laws and constitutions of the State of Michigan and the United States excepting such matters or things as may be expressly and in specific terms limited by the provisions of this Agreement. It is understood and agreed that the Board may continue to make and enforce any and all reasonable rules and regulations and policies relative to anything whatever necessary for the proper establishment, maintenance, management, and carrying on of the public schools Public Schools of the district as provided in Section 614 of the Michigan School Code of 1955, as amended. The rights of the Board shall include, by way of illustration and not by way of limitation, the right to: 1. Manage and control its business, its equipment, and its operations and to direct the working forces and affairs of the L'Anse Creuse Public Schools school districtSchool District. 2. Continue its rights, policies, and practices of assignment and direction of its personnel, determine the number of personnel and scheduling of all the foregoing, and the rights right to establish, modify or change any work or business or school hours or days, days but not in conflict with the specific provision provisions of this Agreement. 3. The right to direct the working forces, including the right to hire, promote, suspend, and discharge employees, transfer employees, assign work or duties to of employees, determine the size of the work force and to lay off employees, but not conflict with the provisions provision of this Agreement. 4. Determine the services, supplies, and equipment necessary to continue its operations and to determine all methods and means of distributing, disseminating, and/or selling its services, methods, schedules, and standards of operation; the means, methods, and processes of carrying on the work including automation or contracting thereof or changes therein, therein the institution of new and/or improved methods or changes therein. 5. Adopt reasonable rules and regulations. 6. Determine the qualification qualifications of employees, including physical conditions. 7. Determine the number and location or relocation of its facilities, including the establishment or relocations of new schools, buildings, departments, divisions or subdivisions thereof, and the relocation or closing of offices, departments, divisions or subdivisions, buildings, or other facilities. 8. Determine the placement or of operations, production, service, maintenance or distribution of work, and the source of materials and supplies. 9. Determine the financial policies, including all accounting procedures. 10. Determine the size of the management organization, its functions, authority, amount of supervision supervision, and table of organization, provided that the Board shall not abridge any rights of from employees as specifically provided for in this Agreement. 11. Determine the policy affecting the selection and training of employees providing that such selection shall be based upon lawful criteria. The above are not to be interpreted as abridging or conflicting with any specific provision provisions in this Agreement.