CONFIDENTIAL ASSOCIATION OF SANTA ANA (CASA) (2017-2018)

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EXHIBIT B (Continued) Section 7: C1tv Response to Recoanftion Petition Upon receipt of the Petition, the Employee Relations Officer shall within ten (10) days determine whether: There has been compliance with the requirements of the Recognition Petition; and The proposed representation unit is an appropriate unit in accordance with Section 11 of this Resolution. If an affirmative determination is made by the Employee Relations Officer on the foregoing two matters, he shall within ten (I0) days after making said determination, inform the petitioning employee organization, shall give written notice of such request for recognition to fhe employees in the unit and shall take no action on said request for thirty (30) days thereafter. If either of the foregoing matters are not affinralively determined, the Employee Relations Officershall meet and discuss the matter with such petitioning employee organization, and, if such determination thereafterremains unchanged, shall inform that organization of the reasons therefore in writing. The petitioning employee organization may appeal such determination in accordance with Section 13 of this Resolution. Section 8: O en Period for Filing Challenging Petiflon s Within thirty (30) days of the date written notice was given to affected employees that a valid Recognition Petitions) furan appropriate unit has been filed, any other employee organization may file c competing request to be formally acknowledged as the recogn(zed employee organization of the employees in the same or in an overlapping unit (one which corresponds with respect to some but not all the classifications or positions set forth in the Recognition Petition being challenged), by filing a petitions) evidencing proof of employee support in the unit claimed to be cppropriate of at least thirty (30) percent and otherwise in the some form and manner as set forth in Section 6 of this Resolution. If such challenging petition(s) seeks establishment of an overlapping unit, the Employee Relations Offlcershall call for a hearing on such overlapping petitions for the purpose of ascertaining the more appropriate unit, at which time the petitioning employee organizations shall be heard. Thereafter, the Employee Relations Officer shall detennine the appropriate unit or units in accordance with the standards in Section 11 of this Resolution. The petitioning employee organizations shall have fifteen (15) days from the dote notice of such unit determination is communicated to them by the Employee Relations Officer to amend their petitions to conform to such determination or to appeal such determination pursuant to Section 13 of this Resolution. Section 9: Election Procedure The Employee Relations Officer shall arrange for a secret ballot election to be conducted by a party agreed to by the Employee Relations Officer and the concerned employee organization(s) in accordance with its rules and procedures subject to the provisions of this Resolution. All employee organizations who have duly submitted petitions which have been determined to be in conformance with this Resolution shall be included on the ballot. The choice of "no organization" shall also be included on the ballot. Employees entitled to vote in such election shall be those persons employed full time In regular, permanent positions within the designated appropriate unit who were employed during the pay period immediately prior to the dote which ended at least CONFIDENTIAL ASSOCIATION OF SAMA ANA(CASA) MOU:2017-2018 Pagee7 L3: