Common use of Arbitration Stage Clause in Contracts

Arbitration Stage. If a solution satisfactory to the FFECC and the County is impossible to reach at this Conference, the Parties agree to voluntarily submit the issue to binding arbitration. The Voluntary Rules and Procedures of the American Arbitration Association are to govern this process procedurally. The Federation will submit a copy of the Demand to the County and the College requesting assignment of an arbitrator from a permanent list of five mutually agreed to arbitrators. The Permanent List of arbitrators is found in Annex C of this Contract. The list of arbitrators shall be maintained at no fewer than 8 and shall be updated from time to time. Either party may strike one (1) Arbitrator from this list during the term of this Agreement. The arbitrator's decision shall be final and binding. Each Party shall be responsible for compensating its own representative and witnesses. If either Party desires a verbatim record of the proceeding, it may cause such a record to be made, providing it pays for the record and makes a copy of the record available without charge to the other Party and to the arbitrator. The arbitrator shall hear the issues and make decisions binding on all Parties on all issues. The services of the arbitrator shall be paid for by the FFECC and County/College in equal amount. The arbitrator's decision shall be in writing and rendered no later than thirty (30) days after the conclusion of the hearing.