Negotiating Meetings. 1. The Board and the Union shall be represented at all negotiation meetings by a team of negotiators not to exceed six (6) members each. Neither party in any negotiations shall have any control over the selection of the negotiation or bargaining representatives of the other party. The Union and the Board must ratify the final agreement. The parties mutually pledge, however, that their representatives will be clothed with all necessary power and authority to make proposals, to consider proposals, and to make concessions in the course of negotiations. All negotiations shall be conducted exclusively between said teams. In addition to said teams, each party shall be authorized to admit no more than two observers to each meeting. Such observers shall be without the right to speak or to otherwise comment to either party unless otherwise agreed.
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