BOARD RIGHTS A. Nothing contained herein shall be considered to deny or restrict the Board of its rights, responsibilities, and authority under the Laws of the State of Michigan and of the Federal Government of the United States. Except as stated by this Agreement, all the rights, powers, and authority the Board had prior to this Agreement are retained by the Board. B. It is expressly agreed that all rights which ordinarily vest in and have been exercised by the Board, except those which are relinquished herein by the Board, shall continue to vest exclusively in and be exercised exclusively by the Board without prior negotiations with the Association either as to the taking of action under such rights or with respect to the consequence of such action during the term of this Agreement. Such rights shall include, by way of illustration and not by way of limitation, the right to: 1. Manage and control the school's business, the equipment, the operations and to direct the working forces and affairs of the Employer. 2. Continue its rights and past practice of assignment and direction of work of all of its personnel, determine the number of shifts and hours of work, starting and ending times, length of the work year, and scheduling of all the foregoing, but not in conflict with the specific provisions of this Agreement, and the right to establish, modify or change any work or business hours or days. 3. The right to direct the working forces, including the right to hire, promote, suspend and discharge employees, transfer employees, effectuate an employee evaluation system, assign work or extra duties to employees, determine the size of the work force and to lay off employees. 4. Determine the services, supplies and equipment necessary to continue its operations and to determine the methods, schedules and standards of operation, the means, methods, and processes of carrying on the work including automation thereof or changes therein, the instruction of new and/or improved methods or changes therein. 5. Adopt reasonable rules and regulations. 6. Determine the qualifications of employees, including physical conditions. 7. Determine the location or relocation of its facilities, including the establishment or relocations or 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 of operations, production, services, maintenance or distribution of work, and the source of materials and supplies. 9. Determine the financial policies, including all accounting procedures, and all matters pertaining to public relations. 10. Determine the size of the management organization, its functions, authority, amount of supervision and table of organization provided that the Employer shall not abridge any rights from employees as specifically provided for in this Agreement. 11. Determine the policy affecting the selection, testing or training of employees providing such selection shall be based upon lawful criteria. C. The exercise of the foregoing powers, rights, authority, duties and responsibilities by the Board, the adoption of policies, rules, regulations, and practices in furtherance thereof, shall be limited only by the terms of this Agreement and then only to the extent such terms hereof are in conformance with the Laws of the State of Michigan, and the Laws of the United States. D. The matters contained in this Agreement and/or the exercise of any such rights of the Board are not subject to further negotiations between the parties during the term of this Agreement.