HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 98-42 RESOLUTION NO. 98-42
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN
JACINTO, CALIFORNIA, RELATING TO EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE
RELATIONS WITHIN THE CITY OF SAN JACINTO,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN
JACINTO, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: TITLE OF RESOLUTION
This resolution shall be known as the Master Ernployer-Employee Relations
Resolution ("MEER") of the City of San Jacinto.
SECTION 2 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
This resolution is adopted as authorized under Chapter 10, Division 4, Title
1 of the California Government Code (Sections 3500 et ae .), captioned "Local
Public Employee Organizations" to provide reasonable and orderly procedures for
the administration of employer-employee relations between the City and its
employees, procedures for the recognition of employee organizations and a
reasonable and orderly method for the resolution of questions regarding wages,
hours, and other terms and conditions of employment of employees of the City.
SECTION 3: ❑EFINITIONS
Except as otherwise specifically provided below, the terms used in this
resolution shall be defined in the same way as such terms are defined in
Government Code §§ 3500 et sea. In addition, the following definitions are adopted
for terms used in this resolution.
3.1 "City" shall mean the City of San Jacinto, a general faw city and
municipal corporation, and where appropriate herein, "City" refers to the City
Council, the governing body of said City, or any duly authorized representative of
the City of San Jacinto.
3.2 "Meet and consult in good faith" means to communicate in writing or,
if requested by the employee organization within the time limits set by the Municipal
Employee Relations Representative, orally, for the purpose of presenting and
obtaining views and advising of intended actions.
3.3 "Meet and confer in good faith" and "meet and confer" mean the City
and a representative of a recognized employee organization or exclusive recognized
employee organization shall have the mutual obligation personally to meet within
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the time periods established by Section 6 of this Resolution to exchange freely
information, opinions, and proposals, and to endeavor to reach agreement on
matters within the scope of representation.
3.4 A "confidential employee" means any person employed by the City as
a secretary to a department head or one who assists or acts in a confidential
capacity to a person who formulates, determines, or effectuates management policy
in employer-employee relations.
3.5 "Employee" shall mean any person employed by the City in a position
approved in the City's allocated positions and compensation plan, as approved by
the City Council, except in a position designated in that plan as temporary or part-
time.
3.6 "Employee unit of representation" and "unit" mean a group of
employees of the City established pursuant to Sections 8.1 or 8.2 of this Resolution
or any amendment thereto to be so constituted that it is proper and reasonable to
recognize an employee organization as the recognized employee organization or
the exclusive recognized employee organization for that unit, if the requirements for
such recognition as set forth herein are met.
3.7 "Employer-employee relations" means the relationship between the
City and its employees and their employee organization(s), or when used in a
general sense the relationship between City management and individual
employees or employee organization(s).
3.8 "Recognized employee organization(s)" mean(s) any employee
organization(s) which is/are certified as the representative of itsitheir members in
a unit.
3.9 "Exclusive recognized employee organization(s)" mean(s) any
employee organization(s) which is/are certified as the representative of and has a
duty to meet and confer on behalf of all their employees in a unit, whether or not
those employees are its members
3,10 "Employee representative" means the authorized representative of a
recognized employee organization(s) or of an exclusive recognized employee
organization(s).
3.11 "Failure to agree" means that the Municipal Employee Relations
Representative and a recognized employee organization(s) or an exclusive
recognized employee organization(s) have been unable to reach agreement within
the applicable time periods established by Section 6 of this Resolution concerning
subject over which they are required to meet and confer.
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3.12 "Municipal Employee Relations Representative" and "MERR" mean
the City's principal representative in all matters of employer-employee relations with
authority to meet and confer on matters within the scope of representation, The
City Councii hereby designates the City Manager as the MERR who is hereby
authorized to delegate his/her duties and responsibilities.
3.13 'Public Safety Employee" means a "Safety Employee" as that term is
now defined under the California State Employees Retirement System.
3.14 "Scope of representation" means all matters relating to employment
conditions and employer-employee relations, including, but not limited to, wages,
hours, and other terms and conditions of employment. except, however, that the
scope of representation shall not include consideration of the merits, necessity or
organization of any service or activity provided by law or executive order, as set
forth.in Section 5.
3.15 "Days" means calendar days unless otherwise stated.
SECTION 4: EMPLOYEE RIGHTS
4.1 Employees of the City shall have the right to form, join, and participate
in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of
representation on matters within the scope of representation in accordance with this
Resolution.
4.2 Employees of the City shall also have the right to refuse to join or
participate in the activities of employee organizations, and shall have the right to
represent themse ves individually in their empioyment relations with the City.
43 No employee shall be interfered with, intimidated, restrained, coerced
or discriminated against by the City, or by an employee organization or employee,
because of the exercise of these rights.
4.4 Professional employees shall not be denied the right to be
represented separately from nonprofessionai employees by an employee
organization consisting of such professional employees.
4.5 No executive, supervisory, managerial, or confidential employee may
represent any employee organization, which represents other employees of the City,
on matters within the scope of representation, unless as permitted by the City of
San Jacinto Personnel Rules, and no executive, supervisory, managerial, or
confidential employees may engage in any activity with or on behalf of any
employee organization which would result in an actual or apparent conflict of
interest as determined by the MERR.
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4.6 Peace officers are prohibited from forming, joining, or participating in
any employee organization except that peace officers may join and participate in
any emoloyee organization which (1) is not subordinate to any other organization,
(2) concerns itself solely and exclusively with the wages, hours, working conditions,
welfare programs. and advancement of the academic and vocational training in
furtherance of the police profession, and (3) is composed solely of such peace
officers.
SECTION 5: CITY RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS
In order to insure that the City is able to carry out its functions and
responsibilities imposed by law, the City has and will retain the exclusive right to
manage and direct the performance of City services and the work force performing
such services and, therefore, the following matters will not be subject to the meet
and confer process, but shall be within the exclusive discretion of the City in
accordance with California Government Code § 3505.
5.1 To determine the merits, necessity, or organization of any service or
activity conducted by the City;
5.2 To determine and change the facilities, methods, means, and
personnel by which City operations are to be conducted;
5.3 To expand or diminish services, {
5.4 To-determine and change the number of locations, relocations, and
types of operations and the processes and materials to be employed in carrying out
all City functions including but not limited to, the right to subcontract any work or
operation;
5.5 To determine the size, assignments, and composition of the work
force and to assign work to employees in accordance with requirements as
determined by the City;
5.6 To relieve employees from duty because of a lack of work, a lack of
financial resources, or other non-disciplinary reasons;
5.7 To determine job classifications,
5.8 To hire. transfer, promote, and demote employees in accordance with
the City s Personnel Rules;
5.9 To determine policies, procedures, and standards for selection,
training and promotion of employees;
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5.10 To establish employee performance standards including, but not
limited to, quality and quantity standards;
5.11 To maintain the efficiency of governmental operations;
5.12 To take any and all necessary actions to carry out its missions in
emergencies:
5.13 To exercise complete control and discretion over its organization and
the technology of performing its work and services: and
5.14 To establish reasonable work and safety rules and regulations in order
to maintain the efficiency and economy desirable in the performance of city
services.
The City, in exercising these rights and functions, will not discriminate against
any employee because of membership or non-membership in any employee
organization.
SECTION 6, MEETING AND CONFERRING
6.1 The City, through its representative(s), shall meet and confer in good
faith with employee representative(s) of any recognized employee organization(s)
or exclusive recognized employee organization(s), whichever applies, regarding
matters within the scope of representation for its members or for all employees
whichever applies, in the unit for which such organization,is recognized. The City
shall not be required to meet and confer on the following matters.
6.1 1 Any subject preempted by Federal or State law,
6.1.2 Any of the matters specified in Section 5; and.
6.1.3 Any amendments or proposed amendments to this Resolution.
6.2 Where a recognized employee organization(s) or an exclusive
recognized employee organization(s) desire(s) to meet and confer with the City,
through its representatives, on matters within the scope of representation, said
organization shall make a request in writing and specify the subjects to be
discussed. The recognized employee organization(s) or the exclusive recognized
employee organization(s) shall submit itsitheir request(s) which it/they intend(s) to
have considered for the budget for the next fiscal year or, if there is a memorandum
of understanding in existence between the parties, for the fiscal year which follows
the expiration date of the memorandum of understanding by the fifteenth (15th) day
of March immediately preceding the commencement of said fiscal year; provided
that such request(s) may be changed during the meet and confer process. so long
as the total cost of the request(s) as changed does not exceed the cost of the
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request(s) made as of said fifteenth (15th) day of March. Promptly after such
request(s) have/has been made, a meeting shall be arranged at a time and place r.'
mutually satisfactory to the parties involved.
6.3 Where the City proposes to take action on matters within the scope
of representation, whether such action be by ordinance, resolution, rule, or
regulations, reasonable written notice shall be given to each recognized employee
organization and each exclusive recognized employee organization affected
thereby, and each shall be given the opportunity to meet and confer with the City,
through its representatives, prior to the adoption of same. In cases of emergency
when the City Council of the City of San Jacinto determines that an ordinance,
resolution, rule, or regulation must be adopted immediately without prior notice or
meeting with any recognized employee organization or exclusive recognized
employee organization, the City shall provide such notice and opportunity to meet
at the earliest practicable time following the adoption of same.
6.4 The employee representatives of any recognized employee
organization(s) and of any exclusive recognized employee organization(s) shall be
required to meet and confer jointly or separately with the City's representative(s),
whichever the City determines, upon request and reasonable notice by the MERR.
6.5 For each fiscal year, the meeting and conferring process shall be
completed by June 30th, of that calendar year. In the event the City gives notice of
an anticipated action pursuant to Section 6.3, the City may specify in said notice the
period of time within which the meeting and conferring process must be completed;
provided that the-recognized employee organization(s) or the exclusive recognized
employee organization(s) shall be deemed conclusively to have waived any right to
meet and confer as to any matter noticed by the City pursuant to Section 6.3 if it
fails to deliver to the City a written request for a meeting within seven (7) days, or
such other notice time as specified by the City due to an emergency, after receipt
of the notice given by the City
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6.6 If agreement is reached by the representative(s) of the City and the
recognized employee organization(s) or the exclusive recognized employee
organization(s), all agreed matters shall be incorporated as joint recommendations
to the City Council in a written memorandum of understanding signed by the MERR,
or his designee, and the duly authorized employee representative(s). Said
memorandum of understanding shall not be binding but said joint recommendations
shall be submitted to the City Council for its determination. In the event the meeting
and conferring process has not been completed within the time period(s) set forth
in sections 6.5, all issues may, at the option of MERR, be submitted to the City
Council for its final determination.
6.7 In the event there is a dispute over the composition of a unit or as to
whether a matter is subject to meeting and conferring, and the parties do not
voluntarily resolve such dispute, either party may submit the issue in writing to the
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MERR with a copy addressed to the other party for mediation The MERR shall
t, meet with the parties in private to aid in a voluntary adjustment of their dispute. The
MERR shall make no findings of fact, nor any public recommendations, nor take any
public positions. Costs, if any, shall be shared by the parties. If such dispute is not
resolved within ten (10) working days after such submission, it shall be submitted
to the City Council for its final determination.
SECTION 7: CONSULT OR CONSULTATION IN GOOD FAITH
The City, through its representative(s), shall consult in good faith with
representatives of existing employee organizations, which have among their
members employees of the City, prior to the adoption of any rules and regulations
for the administration of employer-employee relations excluding any amendments
to this Resolution
SECTION 8. EMPLOYEE UNIT OF REPRESENTATION
8.1 The City has investigated and considered the services performed by
its employees, their working conditions and job duties, and the City's needs to
maintain an efficient operation while providing sound employer-employee relations
and the units of reoresentatien historically recognized by the City. The City has
concluded, based upon these investigations and considerations, that it is most
conducive to harmonious employer-employee relations and to efficient operation of
the City and that it is therefore proper and reasonable to define the following four
(4) separate employee units of representation, subject to Section 4.4 herein:
Section 8.1 1 A Police Unit consisting of employees in the Police
Department who are sworn police officers, and including
Non-sworn personnel, excluding executive,
management, professional, supervisory, and
confidential positions.
Section 8.1.2 A Sergeants Unit consisting of employees of the Police
Department who are sworn officers having the rank of
Sergeant, and excluding executive, management,
professional, supervisory, and confidential positions.
Section 8.1 .3 A Management Unit consisting of all management,
confidential, and professional positions that are not
included in the Police, Sergeants, or General units,
excluding all executive or contract employees.
Section 8.1 A A General Unit consisting of all other employees, except
executive, management, and confidential positions, that
are either not included in any other unit andlor that are
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in positions classified as miscellaneous under the
California State Retirement System.
8.2 The City has the exclusive right to establish additional or different
employee units of representation by action of the City Council as it deems
appropriate, upon the City's own motion or upon a petition filed by an employee
organization pursuant to Section 9 of this Resolution. In making its determination,
the City Council will investigate and consider whether and which employees share
a similar community of interests, the City's needs to maintain an efficient operation,
the units of representation historically recognized by the City, and other matters
considered relevant by the City to promoting sound employer-employee relations
and efficient operation of the City.
Section 9: REQUIREMENTS FOR AND PROCESS OF BECOMING
RECOGNIZED
9.1 Only one employee organization shall be recognized as an employee
organization representing employees in a unit and, after the effective date of this
Resolution, only exclusive recognition on behalf of a unit established in accordance
with this Resolution or amendment hereto shall be conferred.
9.2 An employee organization which was a recognized employee
organization immediately prior to the effective date of this Resolution shall continue r
to be so recognized under this Resolution in the unit or units for which it had been l
recognized, subject to Sections 9 and 10 herein, and provided that said
organization; sixty (60) days after the effective date of this Resolution, submits
current information listed in Sections 9.3.1 through 9.3.7 and acknowledges in
writing within said time limit that it consents to the definition of said unit or units set
forth in Section 8 herein.
9.3 Process of Becoming Recognized. An employee organization which,
following the effective date of this Resoluticn, seeks to become certified as the
exclusive recognized employee organization representing employees in a unit
established by the City in accordance with this Resolution or any amendment
thereto shall file an election petition with the MERR in November or December and
at least twenty-one (21) days before an election is scheduled to be conducted in
that unit. No election petition shall be accepted and no election shall be conducted
within one (1) year from the date of the initial formal certification of an employee
organization or during the period in which the City is prohibited by a memorandum
of understanding from revoking recognition ofthe recognized employee organization
or exclusive recognized employee organization of that unit. The election petition
shall contain the following information and documentation:
9.3.1 Name and address of the employee organization, rr
9.3.2 Names and titles of its officers; 1.
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9 3.3 Names and addresses of no more than two (2) employee
representatives to whom notices if sent pursuant to Subsection 13.4 of this
Resolution will be deemed sufficient notice to the employee organization for any
purpose,
9.3.4 A copy of the employee organization's current Constitution or
Bylaws which shall contain a statement that the employee organization has as one
of its primary purposes the representation of employees in their employment
relations with the City;
9.3.5 A statement whether the employee organization is a
subordinate body of or affiliated directly or indirectly in any manner with any regional
or state or international organization and, if so, the name and address of each such
regional, state, national, or international organization;
9.3.6 A statement that, as required by California Government Code
Section 12,900 et seq., the employee organization has no restriction on
membership based on race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical
handicap, medical condition, marital status, sex or being over the age of 40;
9.3.7 A statement that the employee organization recognizes that the
provisions of Section 923 of the Labor Code are not applicable to employees of the
City under certain circumstances and that the organization does not and will not
{ assert the right to engage in, encourage, assist, or condone, in any manner any
strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sick-in, or other concerted refusal to work by
employees of the-City to the extent any such activity may be prohibited by the City
in accordance with applicable law;
9.3.8 A description of the unit for which recognition is being sought
and a request for recognition in that unit executed by two (2) authorized
representatives of the employee organization;
9.19 Original statements signed by at least thirty percent (30%) of
the employees who, on the date the election petition is received by the MERR, are
employed in the unit for which recognition is being sought. Each statement must
be signed and dated by the employee no more than ninety (90) days before the
date the election petition is received by the MERR. Each statement must request
an opportunity to participate in a secret ballot representation election to determine
whether or not the petitioning employee organization will become the exclusive
recognized employee organization of the unit for which recognition is being sought
for purposes of meeting and conferring with the City concerning wages, hours and
other terms of employment within the scope of representation; and
9.3.10 All changes In such information shall be filed in a like
manner within fifteen (15) days of the occurrence of any such change.
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9.4 The MERR shall give prompt written notice of the filing of a petition
which complies with the requirements of Section 9 herein to any recognized
employee organization or exclusive recognized employee organization affected
thereby.
9.5 Unit Determination. In the event the unit for which recognition is being
sought is different from one of the units established by Section 8 herein, the MERR
shall submit the description of the unit sought to the City Council for its final
determination in accordance with Section 8.2 herein. Notice that the matter has
been referred for determination by the City Council shall be given to each petitioning
employee organization and to any employee organization recognized as the
representative of part or all of the unit petitioned for and each employee
organization so notified shall have an opportunity to be heard by the City Council
on the unit issue before the City Council makes its final determination. Further,
each such employee organization shall be given notice of the City Council's final
determination. Within seven (7) days of notice of the City Council's final unit
determination, each petitioning employee organization shall furnish the MERR
written notice to proceed with an election in the unit established by the City Council
or the petition filed by it shall be deemed withdrawn
9.6 The Representation Election Process
9.6.1 As a condition to participating in an election, an employee
organization may be required by the MERR to agree in writing that, if elected, it will
succeed to and remain bound by any memorandum of understanding during its
term, which memorandum was in effect at the time of the election or in effect
immediately before a recognized employee organization or exclusive recognized
employee organization withdrew its representation pursuant to Section 9.6.2, to the
extent that the memorandum of understanding has been approved by the City
Council and is applicable to positions within the unit for which the election is being
conducted.
9.6.2 A recognized employee organization or an exclusive recognized
employee organization of the unit for which the election is being conducted shall
also appear on the ballot unless within fourteen (14) days of receipt of the notice of
the petition, or notice of the unit determined by the City Council, whichever is later,
that employee organization provides written notice to the MERR that it does not
intend to Participate in the election. Notice of the intention not to participate in the
election shall constitute withdrawal from representation of the unit effective the date
the notice of intention not to participate in the election is received by the MERR.
The choice of "no employee organization" and any employee organization which
timely and properiy filed an election petition with MERR for the unit in which the
election is anncunced also shall be on the ballot.
9.6.3 At and under the direction of the MERR, pursuant to such rules
and regulations as the MERR may from time to time establish or delegate to the City
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/ Clerk to establish, the City Clerk shall conduct and verify the results of a secret
t ballot election to determine what employee organization, if any, shall be the
exclusive organization of the unit petitioned for only if the procedures established
by Sections 8.2 and 9.5 have been followed. The MERR shall announce the date
of the election and the voting location or locations at least twenty-eight (28) days
before the date of the election. Employees shall vote in person.
9.6.4 Eligible voters shall be those employees employed in a position
or positions within the unit, as established by Section 8.1 or 8.2 herein, during the
payroll period ending immediately prior to the date on which the petition for election
was filed and on the date of the election.
9.6.5 Determining the Election Results
An employee organization must receive the numerical majority of the
votes cast (i.e., the votes of at least fifty percent (50%) of all votes cast plus one (1)
to become the exclusive recognized employee organization. If there are at least two
(2) employee organizations on the ballot, and no choice on the ballot receives the
numerical majority of the votes cast, the City Clerk shall conduct a runoff election
as directed by the MERR, pursuant to such rules and regulations the MERR may
establish or delegate to be established, pursuant to Section 9.6.3 herein.
9.7 Certification
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9.7.1 The City Clerk or delegate shall formally certify that an
employee organization is an exclusive recognized employee organization of a
specified unit upon written notice by the MERR that the organization has complied
with the requirements of Section 9 for participating in a secret ballot representation
election, the full description of the unit established pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2 in
which the election was conducted and, where applicable, that the organization has
signed and submitted the written agreement required by Section 9.6.1 and, further,
upon verification by the City Clerk or delegate that the organization did appear on
the ballot in an election in that unit and the organization received a numerical
majority of the votes cast.
9.7.2, All recognized employee organizations and exclusive
recognized employee organizations shall advise the MERR in writing immediately
of any changes in the information enumerated in Sections 9.3.1 through 9.3.7.
SECTION 10: REVOCATION OF STATUS AS RECOGNIZED
EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION OR EXCLUSIVE
RECOGNIZED EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION
10.1 Recognition of a recognized employee organization or an exclusive
recognized employee organization may be revoked on the following grounds:
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10.1 1 Upon determination by the City Council, after notice and
hearing, that cause exists, including but not limited to, violation of the employee
rights set forth in Section 4 or as established by law or upon determination made
pursuant to Section 12.
10.1.2 After a secret ballot election conducted in accordance
with Section 9 herein in which it has been determined that a determinative number
of the employees in a unit no longer wish to be represented by said employee
organization or wish to be represented by another employee organization. Such an
election may be held only in the following instances: (a) Pursuant to the filing of a
petition oy another employee organization in compliance with all of the requirements
of Section 9 or (b) Pursuant to a petition requesting an election filed by the City
when it reasonably believes the employee organization no longer is the choice of
a majority of the employees in the unit or that it has violated any of the employee
rights set forth in Section 4 or as established by law or by at least fifty percent (50%)
of the emoloyees in the Unit for which said employee organization was recognized.
Such petitions may be filed only during the periods established by Section 9.3.
SECTION 11: STRIKES AND WORK STOPPAGES
11 .1 Any employee who participates in any manner in any strike, work
stoppage, slowdown, sick-in, or other concerted refusal to work, or impediment to
work by employees of the City, or who participates in any manner in any picketing
in support of any such strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sick-in, or other concerted
refusal to work, or impediment to work by employees of the City, or who induces
other employees of the City to engage in such activities, shall be subject to
termination of employment by the City, to the extent permitted by law and, in
addition, -o any other remedies provided by law.
11.2 In the event any employee organization calls, engages in, encourages,
assists, or condones, in any manner, any strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sick-in,
or other concerted refusal to work, or impediment to work, by employees of the City
or any picketing in support thereof, or any other form of interference with or
limitation of the peaceful performance of City services, the City Council, in addition
to any other legal remedies or disciplinary actions available to the City, may after
notice to the employee organization and to the extent permitted by law, suspend
any and all of the rights and privileges accorded such employee organization under
any ordinance, resolution, or rules, or regulations of the City or any memorandum
of understanding with the City, including, but not limited to, the suspension of
recogni-lon, payroll deductions, and the use of the City's bulletin boards and
facilities. In the event of such a suspension, the affected employee organization
may appeal to the City Council upon seven (7) days written notice to the MERR and
that appeal shall be heard at the first regular City Council meeting held on or after
the day noticed by the employee organization. The City Council may, upon its own
motion, also schedule such a hearing and, after notice and public hearing. may
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determine that such suspension shall be extended, shortened or terminated, or that
recognition of the employee organization shall be revoked.
SECTION 12: CONSTRUCTION
12.1 The City Council may adopt such rules and regulations necessary or
convenient to implement the provisions of this resolution and of Chapter 10, Division
4, Title 11 of the Government Code of the State of California. Nothing in this
resolution shall be construed to deny any person or employee any rights granted by
Federal or State laws. The rights, powers, and authority of the City Council in all
matters; including the right to maintain any legal actions shall, not be modified or
restricted by this resolution.
12.2 If any provision or portion thereof contained in this resolution, or the
application thereof, to any person or circumstances is held to be unconstitutional,
invalid, or unenforceable, the remainder of this resolution and the application of
such provision, or portion thereof, to other persons or circumstances shall be
deemed severable, and shall not be affected and shall remain in full force and
effect.
12.3 The provisions of this resolution shall supersede and take precedence
over the provisions of any prior resolutions, minute orders, statements of policy, or
personnel rules of the City Council of the City of San Jacinto dealing with the same
subjects and matters as are covered herein.
12.4 Wherever written notice is required by this resolution, it shall be given
to the City at City Hall, 201 E. Main Street, San Jacinto, California, and to any
employee organization at its last address furnished in writing to the City, by first
class registered or certified mail, postage prepaid and shall be deemed to have
been received on the third day immediately following the day it was mailed
(excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays on which the offices of the City are
closed) or, at the sender's option, may be given by hand delivery.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED ON August 6, 1998
City Clerk Cyfty
or
of San Jacinto
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