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Access shall be restricted so as not to interfere with the normal operations of the department or with established safety or security requirements. Solicitation of membership and activities concemed with the internal management of the Association, such as collecting dues, holding membership meetings, campaigning for office, conducting elections and distributing literature shall not be conducted during working hours unless approved in advance by the City Manager or his or her designated representative. SECTION 4. CITY RIGHTS To insure that the City is able to carry out its constitutional, chartered and statutory functions and responsibilities, nothing contained herein shall be construed to require the City to meet and confer on matters which are solely a function of management, including the right to direct the work fome; to select and determine the number and types of employees required; to determine the content of job classifications; to hire, transfer, promote, suspend, discipline and discharge employees; to assign work to employees in accordance with the requirements of the City; to establish and change work schedules and assignments; to lay offemployees 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 an 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, or to be present at heatings 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) working days prior to the scheduled meeting whenever possible. Except by mutual agreement, the number of employees excused for such purposes shall not exceed two (2). SECTION 6. NO STRIKE The Association, its members and representatives, agree that 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 5