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The Employee Relations Officer shall give prompt written notice of the filing of a Petition to any recognized <br />employee organization affected thereby. <br />Section 7: City Response to Recognition Petition <br />Upon receipt of the Petition, the Employee Relations Officer shall within ten (10) days determine whether: <br />There has been compliance with the requirements of the Recognition Petition; and <br />The proposed representation unit is an appropriate unit in accordance with Section 11 of this Resolution. <br />If an affirmative determination is made by the Employee Relations Officer on the foregoing two matters, he shall <br />within ten (10) days after making said determination, inform the petitioning employee organization, shall give <br />written notice of such request for recognition to the employees in the unit and shall take no action on said request for <br />thirty (30) days thereafter. If either of the foregoing matters are not affirmatively determined, the Employee <br />Relations Officer shall meet and discuss the matter with such petitioning employee organization, and, if such <br />determination thereafter remains unchanged, shall inform that organization of the reasons therefore in writing. The <br />petitioning employee organization may appeal such determination in accordance with Section 13 of this Resolution. <br />Section 8: Open Period for Filing Challenging Petition(s) <br />Within thirty (30) days of the date written notice was given to affected employees that a valid Recognition <br />Petition(s) for an appropriate unit has been filed, any other employee organization may file a competing request to <br />be formally acknowledged as the recognized employee organization of the employees in the same or in an <br />overlapping unit (one which corresponds with respect to some but not all the classifications or positions set forth in <br />the Recognition Petition being challenged), by filing a petition(s) evidencing proof of employee support in the unit <br />claimed to be appropriate of at least thirty (30) percent and otherwise in the same form and manner as set forth in <br />Section 6 of this Resolution. If such challenging petition(s) seeks establishment of an overlapping unit, the <br />Employee Relations Officer shall call for a hearing on such overlapping petitions for the purpose of ascertaining the <br />more appropriate unit, at which time the petitioning employee organizations shall be heard. Thereafter, the <br />Employee Relations Officer shall determine the appropriate unit or units in accordance with the standards in Section <br />11 of this Resolution. The petitioning employee organizations shall have fifteen (15) days from the date notice of <br />such unit determination is communicated to them by the Employee Relations Officer to amend their petitions to <br />conform to such determination or to appeal such determination pursuant to Section 13 of this Resolution. <br />Section 9: Election Procedure <br />The Employee Relations Officer shall arrange for a secret ballot election to be conducted by a party agreed to by the <br />Employee Relations Officer and the concerned employee organization(s) in accordance with its rules and procedures <br />subject to the provisions of this Resolution. All employee organizations who have duly submitted petitions which <br />have been determined to be in conformance with this Resolution shall be included on the ballot. The choice of "no <br />organization" shall also be included on the ballot. Employees entitled to vote in such election shall be those persons <br />employed full time in regular, permanent positions within the designated appropriate unit who were employed <br />during the pay period immediately prior to the date which ended at least fifteen (15) days before the date the election <br />commences, including those who did not work during such period because of illness, vacation or other authorized <br />leaves of absence, and who are employed by the City in the same unit on the date of election. An employee <br />organization shall be formally acknowledged as the Recognized Employee Organization for the designated <br />appropriate unit following an election or runoff election if it received a numerical majority of all valid votes cast in <br />the election. If an election involving three or more choices, where none of the choices receives a majority of the <br />valid votes cast, a runoff election shall be conducted between the two choices receiving the largest number of valid <br />votes cast (that is, either between two employee organizations, or one employee organization and no representation); <br />the rules governing an initial election being applicable to a runoff election, except that the runoff election shall be <br />held within fifteen (15) days following the certification of the initial election results. <br />100