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I I CITY OF PLEASANTON. COUNTY OF ALAMEDA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA EMPLOYER -EMPLOYEE RELATIONS PROCEDURES ARTICLE I -- GENERAL PROVISIONS Section 1. Title of Resolution. This Resolution shall be known as the Employer -Employee Relations Resolution of the City of Pleasanton. Section 2. Statement of Purpose. The purpose of this Resolution is to implement Chapter 10, Division 4, Title 1 of the Government Code of the State of California (Sections 3500 et seq.) captioned "Local Public Employee Organizations", by providing orderly procedures for the administration of employer -employee relations between the City and its employee organizations. It is the purpose of this Resolution to promote full communication between the City and its employees by providing procedures for meeting and conferring in good faith with Exclusively Recognized Employee Organizations regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment, and to promote the improvement of personnel management and employer -employee relations by providing a uniform basis for recognizing the right of public employees to join organizations of their own choice and be represented by such organizations in their employment relationships with the City. However, nothing contained herein shall be deemed to supersede the provisions of State law, City ordinances, resolutions, rules, policies and procedures, or other provisions which establish and regulate the merit system, or which provide for other methods of administering employer -employee relations. This Resolution is intended, instead, to strengthen administering employer -employee relations through the establishment of uniform and orderly methods of communications between employees, employee organizations, and the City. Section 3. Definitions. As used in this Resolution, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated: a. "Appropriate Unit" means a unit of employee classes or positions established for representation purposes pursuant to Article II hereof. b. "Certification" means formal recognition by the City that an employee _. organization is the "Exclusively Recognized" bargaining representative of an appropriate bargaining unit. Revised: l 2/30/97