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1.5 To report serious crimes that occur on campus and to cooperate with the law enforcement officials in their investigation of crimes that occur at school; and 1.6 To cooperate with SAN MARCOS CONSODIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT law enforcement officers in their investigations of criminal offenses which occur on or off campus related to SMCISD students. 2.0 Employment and Assignment of School Resource Officer 2.1. The SROs shall be employees of the DEPARTMENT and shall be subject to the administration, supervision and control of the DEPARTMENT. The SROs are not employees of the SAN MARCOS CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT. The individual assignment of the SROs that are designated participants in this program will be determined by the mutual agreement of the SMCISD Superintendent, or the Superintendent's designee, and the DEPARTMENT's Chief of Police, or his designee. 2.2 The DEPARTMENT agrees to provide and to pay the SROs' salary and employment benefits in accordance with the applicable salary schedules and employment practices of the DEPARTMENT. The SROs shall be subject to all other personnel policies and practices of the DEPARTMENT. 2.3 The DEPARTMENT, in its sole discretion, shall have the power and authority to hire, discharge and discipline SROs. The DEPARTMENT shall hold harmless and indemnify the SAN MARCOS CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, including its officers, employees and agents, from and against any and all claims, lawsuits, causes of action, grievances, costs and losses arising out of allegations of unfair or unlawful employment practices or conditions brought by any SRO. 2.4 In the event an SRO is absent from work, the SRO shall notify his supervisor in the DEPARTMENT. The DEPARTMENT will then notify the principal and the SMCISD Police Department and agrees to assign, if available, another SRO, to substitute for the SRO who is absent. In the event an SRO is absent due to illness or disability for a period of ten (10) consecutive workdays, the DEPARTMENT agrees to assign a substitute SRO to assume and perform the duties of the SRO who is absent from work, which said substitute shall be approved by both parties. 2.5 An SRO shall be subject to reassignment to another campus or removal from the SRO Program from SAN MARCOS CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT for failure to comply with an assigned duty or failure to advance the goals and objectives of the SRO Program. 3.0 Duty Hours 3.1 Officers assigned to the SRO Program will work at times designated and agreed by the SMCISD Superintendent, or the Superintendent's designee, the appropriate campus Principal, the City of San Marcos Chief of Police and SRO Supervisor. The maximum number of hours that a SRO officer shall be on duty in a regular workweek shall be 40 2 of 9