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6.B. - Page 161 of 366 accordance with the requirements of the City; to establish and change work schedules and assignments; to lay off employees for lack of work; to expand or diminish services; to subcontract any work or operations; to determine and change methods of operations; to determine and change work locations and the processes and materials to be employed; to take all necessary actions to perform its functions in emergencies. SECTION 5. ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVES City employees who are official representatives or unit representatives of the Association shall be given reasonable time off with pay to attend meetings with management representatives, labor conferences, labor training seminars, or to be present at hearings where matters within the scope of representation or grievances are being considered. The use of official time for this purpose shall be reasonable and shall not interfere with the performance of City services as determined by the City Personnel Officer. Such Employee representatives shall submit a written request for excused absence to the Police Department Head or his or her designated representative with an information copy to the City Manager, at least two (2) weeks prior to the scheduled meeting, labor conference, or labor training seminar whenever possible. Except by mutual agreement, the number of employees excused for such purposes shall not exceed two (2) contingent upon minimum staffing requirements. The affected shift supervisor will post any necessary overtime to backfill their respective shift; however, if there are no takers for the overtime, no officer will be compelled to work overtime and permission will not be granted for the requested absence. It is incumbent on the association representative who is attending the meeting, labor conference or labor training seminar to check with the affected shift supervisor to ensure that in the event any overtime is needed, it is posted and filled. SECTION 6. NO STRIKE The Association, its members and representatives, agree that it and they will not engage in, authorize, sanction, or support any strike, slowdown, stoppage of work, curtailment of production, concerted refusal of overtime work, refusal to operate designated equipment (provided such equipment is safe and sound) or to perform customary duties; and neither the Association nor any representatives thereof shall engage in job action for the purpose of effecting changes in the directives or decisions of management of the City, not to effect a change of personnel or operations of management or of employees not covered by this MOU. SECTION 7. PAY 1 7.1 Salary Increases 7.1.1 Effective October 29 2018 em to ees represented by the Association shall receive a two and one-half percent (2.5%) cost of living adjustment. i :l