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Costs of conducting elections shall be borne in equal shares by the City and by each employee organization appearing on the ballot. Section 13. Procedure of Decertification of Recognized Employee Organization. A Petition for Decertification alleging that an employee organization granted exclusive recognition is no longer the majority representative of the employees in an appropriate unit may be filed with the Municipal Employee Relations Officer only during the period between one hundred -eighty (180) and one hundred twenty (120) days prior to the expiration date of a Memorandum of Understanding covering the classifications of the employees in the Unit. In addition, a decertification petition may be filed when there is no current Memorandum of Understanding in place except that no decertification petition may be filed while representatives of an Exclusively Recognized Employee Organization and the City are involved in impasse procedures in an effort to reach agreement over the terms and conditions of a Memorandum of Understanding. The Petition for Decertification may be filed by an employee, a group of employees or their representative, or an employee organization. The Petition, including all accompanying documents, shall be verified, under oath, by the person signing it, that its contents are true. It may be accompanied by a Petition for Recognition by a challenging organization. The Petition for Decertification shall contain the following information: a. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner and a designated representative authorized to receive notices or requests for further information. b. The name of the established appropriate unit and of the incumbent Exclusively Recognized Employee Organization sought to be decertified as the representative of that unit. ■ C. An allegation that the incumbent Exclusively Recognized Employee Organization no longer represents a majority of the employees in the appropriate unit, and any other relevant ' and material facts relating thereto. d. Written proof of employee support that at least thirty percent (30%) of the employees in the established appropriate unit no longer desire to be represented by the incumbent Exclusively Recognized Employee Organization. Such proof shall be dated within six (6) months of the date upon which the petition is filed and shall be submitted for confirmation to the Municipal Employee Relations Officer or to a mutually agreed -upon disinterested third party within the time limits specified in the first paragraph of this section. An employee organization may, in satisfaction of the Decertification Petition requirements hereunder, file a Petition under this section in the form of a Recognition Petition that evidences proof of employee support of at least thirty percent (30%) and otherwise conforms to the requirements of Section 9 of this Article. Revised: 12/30/97 - 9 -