ARTICLE 3.00 - MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
The District retains all prerogatives, functions, and rights not limited by the terms of the Agreement or by Washington statute. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is expressly recognized that the Board's operational and managerial responsibility includes:
A. The right to determine location of the schools and other facilities of the school system, including the right to establish new facilities.
B. The determination of the financial policies of the District, including the general accounting procedures, inventory of supplies and equipment procedures and public relations.
C. The determination of the management, supervisory, or administrative organization of each school or facility in the system and the selection of employees for promotion to supervisory, management or administrative positions.
D. The maintenance of discipline and control and use of school system property and facilities.
E. The determination of safety, health and property protection measures where legal responsibility of the Board or other governmental unit is involved.
F. The right to enforce the rules and regulations now in effect and to establish new rules and regulations from time to time not to conflict with this Agreement. This right is not intended to negate any Association right to bargain as may be allowed by other provisions of this Agreement or by RCW 41.59.
G. The direction and arrangement of all working forces in the system, including the right to hire, suspend, discharge or discipline, assign or transfer employees.
H. The creation, combination, modification, or elimination of any teaching position.
I. The determination of the size of the working force, the allocation and assignment of work to employees, the determination of policies affecting the selection of employees, and the establishment of quality standards and judgment of employees.
J. The determination of the layout and the equipment to be used and the right to plan, direct and control school activities. With the involvement and input of the professional staff and consistent with Section 5.04 herein, the determination of the processes, techniques, methods and means of teaching and the subjects to be taught.
K. The right to revise the school calendar in case of extreme emergency and at the discretion of the Board, establish hours of employment consistent with Section 8.02 of this Agreement; to schedule classes and assign work loads; and to select textbooks, teaching aids and materials.
L. The right to make assignment for all programs of a co-curricular nature.
Nothing in this Agreement shall limit in any way the District's contracting or subcontracting of work; however, prior to any such contracting the District will inform the Association of its plans. Nothing in this Agreement shall require the District to continue in existence any of its present programs in its present form and/or location or on any other basis, except as specifically provided in Section 2.02 (B).