7. FACILITIES

7.1 FACILITIES

7.1.1 Each school will have the following facilities:

A. Space in each adequately furnished classroom in which teachers may store instructional materials and supplies. Itinerant teachers shall be provided space for the storage of their records and materials at each school.

B. An individual work space.

C. Well-lighted and clean teacher restrooms.

D. A workroom for teachers containing equipment and supplies to aid in the preparation of instructional materials.

E. A furnished room to be used as a faculty lounge. Such room will be in addition to the aforementioned teacher workroom.

F. Telephone service available to teachers to conduct school business which permits privacy of conversation.

G. Space in the parking lot at each school will be reserved for teacher parking.

H. Every effort should be made to provide Student Services Personnel a private area (sufficient to accommodate individual/group counseling), locked file cabinet and telephone.

I. It shall be the District's objective to provide teachers technological tools fundamental to meeting the needs of the classroom.

J. A teacher required to utilize a classroom assigned to another teacher during a class period shall be given uninterrupted use of that classroom unless prior agreement to allow access is reached.

7.1.2 Consideration shall be given to safety and security of teachers' cars when assigning teacher parking areas.

7.1.3 Teachers shall be provided with dining space and facilities apart from students. In those schools where lack of space prohibits a separate dining room, an area within the student lunchroom will be established by use of available visual barriers, such as bookcases, etc. This will not prevent a teacher from dining with his/her students or at another area (classrooms excluded) in the school if he/she desires to do so.

7.1.4 By the last day of pre-planning, furniture and equipment shall have been placed in the teacher's assigned class or station.

7.1.5 Supplies and their distribution shall be handled through a central location and invoices shall be available to teachers upon request.

7.1.6 A teacher's right to privacy of his/her mail shall be maintained.

7.1.7 Teachers placing a written order or request for supplies, equipment or materials with their principal or immediate supervisor, shall receive a written response to the disposition of the request within two weeks.

Teacher initiated requests for repairs shall be responded to in a timely manner. Work orders not completed within two weeks of the date of origin shall be investigated and responded to by the employee's site manager.