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C� 40 3 maintain the minimum qualifications for gob classifications and the amount and type of work needed; to engage in experimental and development projects; to determine what records are to be made and kept, including those records relating to hours of work of employees, who will make and keep the records, how the records are to be made and kept; to establish new jobs, abolish or change existing jobs; to determine the assignment of work; to contract out or subcontract work; to schedule the hours and days to be worked on each job and to make time studies of work loads, fob assignments, methods of operation and efficiency from time to time and to make changes based on said studies; to expand, reduce, alter, combine, transfer, assign, cease, create, or restructure any department or operation for business purposes; to control, regulate, and determine the number, type and use of supplies, machinery, equipment, vehicles, and other property owned, used, possessed or leased by the County; to introduce new, different or improved methods, means and processes of County services and operations; to make or change rules and regulations, policies and practices for the purpose of efficiency, safe practices and discipline; and otherwise generally to manage the County, direct the work force, and establish terms and conditions of employment, except as modified or restricted by a provision of this agreement.. 7.2 The County's failure to exercise any function or right hereby reserved to it, or, its exercising any function or right in a particular way, shall not be deemed a waiver to its rights to exercise such function or right, nor precludes the County from exercising the same in some other way not in conflict with the express provisions of this agreement. The Union agrees that the County may exercise all of the above without advising the Union of any proposed action; nor may the Union require the County to negotiate over the decision or its effects on the employees except as altered by this agreement. The exercise of the rights specifically listed in this article does not preclude the employees or their representatives -from conferring with management or raising questions about the practical consequences that decision on these matters may have on the terms and conditions of employment, 7.3 Past practices of the Board of County Commissioners or County management shall not be considered for the purpose of limiting the rights, responsibilities, or prerogatives of management, nor for the purpose of enlarging upon the specific and express limitations on management which are contained in this agreement. 7.4 If the County determines that civil emergency conditions exist, including but not limited to riots, civil disorders, strikes or illegal work stoppages, 'hurricane conditions or similar catastrophes or disorders, the provisions of this agreement may be suspended by the County during the term of the declared emergency. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 5, Correspondence, notice of such suspension will be given to the union president as soon as practicable after the determination has been made and by