Common use of POST-FACT FINDING PROCDURES Clause in Contracts

POST-FACT FINDING PROCDURES. A. If either the Board or the Association decides it must reject one or more of the committee’s recommendations, said party must, within seven (7) calendar days after its receipt of the recommendations, request a meeting of the representatives who have been bargaining for the Board and the Association. The parties shall meet within seven (7) days of the request, unless both parties deem it unnecessary. At such meeting, the representatives shall exchange written statements expressing each party’s rationale for rejecting each recommendation found unacceptable and shall attempt to clarify any remaining differences. The representatives shall then resume good faith effort to resolve the remaining differences; provided, after fourteen (14) days after the exchange of written statements, either party may discontinue such effort. If the effort to resolve differences is successful, the Board and Association shall draft a written agreement and shall present the agreement to both parties for ratification. The agreement shall also be forwarded to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. If the effort to resolve differences is unsuccessful, the Board shall forward in writing to the office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction its final disposition of the collective bargaining impasse process within thirty (30) days of the effective date of implementation.