HIGGINBOTHAM, J.

Plaintiff, Collette Dwyer, appeals a district court judgment that upheld the abolishment of her classified position of firefighter/operator by defendant, the West Feliciana Fire Protection District No. 1 ("the FPD"). After reviewing the facts and applicable law, we convert the appeal to an application for supervisory writs, grant the request for supervisory review of the merits, and affirm the district court's judgment.1

BACKGROUND

The FPD hired Collette Dwyer as a full-time employee in September 1999, to perform administrative duties in an entry-level classified position of secretary to the fire chief. In May 2000, Dwyer changed to another entry-level classified position with the FPD, when she became a firefighter/operator. She remained in that position, performing both administrative duties (but not data-entry duties, which were performed by a non-classified employee) and firefighter/operator duties until January 11, 2010. Dwyer was the only classified firefighter/operator employed by the FPD on January 11, 2010.

At a regularly-scheduled meeting on that same date, the Board of Commissioners of the FPD ("the FPD Board") unanimously voted to allow the meeting agenda to be amended in order to consider the recommendation of the personnel committee of the FPD Board. The FPD Board then voted to follow the recommendation to reorganize the FPD's structure for economic reasons and in consideration of volunteer manpower shortages.2 The reorganization of the FPD resulted in the elimination of the classified firefighter/operator position, as well as several unclassified volunteer and contract positions. On January 12, 2010, Dwyer was notified in writing that she was being laid off as a result of the abolishment of the classified firefighter/operator position and that the only remaining classified positions at the FPD were fire chief and data processor. Consequently, Dwyer was placed on a reemployment list for four years in accordance with La. R.S. 33:2551.

Dwyer timely filed an appeal of the FPD Board's action with the three-member Civil Service Board for the FPD ("the CS Board"). Because Dwyer was a member of the CS Board, it was necessary that she be recused from participating as a board member in her appeal to the CS Board. In her appeal, Dwyer alleged that because of her seniority with the FPD and her previous performance of administrative duties while she was a firefighter/operator, she was entitled to be reassigned to the next lowest classified position as a data processor at the FPD.

The CS Board held a public hearing on February 11, 2010, with the two remaining members.3 The attorneys for Dwyer and the FPD submitted the case for decision by the CS Board based on stipulations that were read into the record. In a decision rendered on March 19, 2010, one CS Board member voted to reinstate Dwyer to her firefighter/operator position in light of Dwyer's mistaken reliance on the FPD Board's invalid characterization of the data processor position as classified and the fact that the posted agenda for the FPD Board's regularly-scheduled meeting did not reference the abolishment of the firefighter/operator position. The other CS Board member voted to deny Dwyer's appeal, concluding that the only issue before the CS Board was whether Dwyer was legally entitled to the unclassified data processor position, and further determining that Dwyer was only entitled to placement on the re-employment list, since there was no other classified position in the respective class of firefighter/operator that she could be legally transferred into that shared the same essential duties and responsibilities as the firefighter/operator position.4 Because there was no concurrence between the two voting CS Board members, the action of the FPD Board in abolishing Dwyer's classified position was deemed affirmed by the CS Board in accordance with La. R.S. 33:2561(D).5

After the CS Board rendered its decision, effectively affirming the FPD Board's action, Dwyer gave notice that she intended to appeal the CS Board's decision to the district court. She timely filed a petition for judicial review, arguing that the FPD Board failed to comply with the provisions of the Open Meetings Law and civil service laws when her classified position was abolished and she was laid off from her position. After reviewing the record and hearing the arguments of counsel, the district court affirmed the decision of the CS Board on February 25, 2011. In oral reasons for judgment, the district court concluded that the CS Bd. acted in good faith and for cause when, for purely economic reasons, the classified position of firefighter/operator was abolished according to the personnel committee's restructuring proposal. The district court further found that Dwyer was laid off from work at the FPD, since there was no other classified position in her class to which she could be transferred. Dwyer timely appealed to this court, raising one assignment of error, contending that the district court legally erred in failing to conclude that Dwyer should be placed in the next lower classified position of data entry processor with the FPD.6

ANALYSIS

As a classified civil service employee who felt her discharge was not for just cause, Dwyer had the right to demand a hearing and investigation by the CS Board to determine the reasonableness of the FPD Board's action in abolishing her classified position and not placing her in the next lower classified position of data entry processor with the FPD. See La. R.S. 33:2561(A). After the split decision of the CS Board that resulted in an affirmation of the action of the FPD Board, Dwyer appealed to the district court for a determination of whether the CS Board's decision was made in "good faith for cause" under the provisions of La. R.S. 33:2531-2569. The sole issue before the district court was whether the CS Board acted in good faith and for cause. See La. R.S. 33:2561(E). Good faith does not exist if the appointing authority (the FPD Board in this case) acted arbitrarily or capriciously, or as the result of prejudice or political expediency. See Moore v. Ware, 2001-3341 (La.2/25/03), 839 So.2d 940, 945-946. Arbitrary or capricious means the lack of a rational basis for the action taken. Id., 839 So.2d at 946; Landry v. Baton Rouge Police Dept., 2008-2289 (La.App. 1st Cir.5/8/09), 17 So.3d 991, 995.

The district court's review of the CS Board's quasi-judicial administrative determination is an exercise of appellate jurisdiction. Baton Rouge Police Dept. v. O'Malley, 2010-1386 (La.App. 1st Cir.3/25/11), 64 So.3d 773, 776. The district court may not substitute its opinion for that of the CS Board, but should accord deference to the CS Board's factual conclusions, and must not overturn them unless they are manifestly erroneous. Id., 64 So.3d at 776-777. The district court has a limited review of the CS Board's findings of fact. Those findings are entitled to the same weight as findings of fact made by a trial court and are not to be overturned in the absence of manifest error. Id.

The district court in this case reviewed the record and considered the arguments of counsel before rendering judgment affirming the CS Board's action. The district court gave the following oral reasons:

This court has carefully reviewed the record of the proceedings before the CS Board, and we find no evidence that the CS Board acted in bad faith in upholding the FPD Board's action of abolishing Dwyer's classified firefighter/operator position. The split decision of the CS Board, resulting in an affirmation of the FPD Board's action, is clearly supported in the record and by the statutory law. A rational basis exists for the factual findings, and we find no manifest error or abuse of discretion in the district court's decision to uphold the effective ruling of the CS Board. Moreover, because the CS Board made no finding of bad faith on the part of the FPD Board, it was without authority to modify the FPD Board's actions. See La. R.S. 33:2561.

The record shows that Dwyer's classified firefighter/operator position was abolished in good faith and for economic reasons. Additionally, the record reveals that there was no other classified position within Dwyer's class to which she could be demoted or transferred. The data processor position that Dwyer desires to be placed in is not a classified civil service position at this time. Thus, the law required that Dwyer be laid off and placed on a re-employment list in accordance with La. R.S. 33:2548, La. R.S. 33:2558, and La. R.S. 33:2559. See also La. R.S. 33:2550(C); La. R.S. 33:2551(2) and (3). Therefore, we find the district court used the correct standard of review, and we find no clear basis for modifying the district court's judgment. See Meiners v. St. Tammany Fire Protection District # 4 Bd. of Com'rs, 2009-0435 (La.App. 1st Cir.9/10/10), 47 So.3d 1031, 1033, writ denied, 2010-2290 (La.12/10/10), 51 So.3d 728.

CONCLUSION

For the above reasons, we convert Collette Dwyer's appeal to an application for supervisory writs, grant the request for supervisory review of the merits, and affirm the district court's judgment, thereby upholding the abolishment of the classified firefighter/operator position with the West Feliciana Fire Protection District No. 1. All costs of this supervisory writ application are assessed against plaintiff/appellant, Collette Dwyer.

APPEAL CONVERTED TO APPLICATION FOR SUPERVISORY WRIT; WRIT GRANTED; AND DISTRICT COURT JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.