§ 2-03-460. Personnel Systems—Labor Relations (Collective Bargaining)—City labor management relations board.

There shall be formed to assist in the implementation and administration of this subdivision a city labor-management relations board of three (3) members. In view of the legal work involved in the interpretation of this subdivision, board members shall normally be members of the legal profession or individuals who possess expertise in the field of employee relations or both.

Board members shall serve for a period of one (1) year commencing July 1 and shall be selected as follows:

(1)

Each city employee organization whose principal interest is to represent city employees in bargaining collectively with city government concerning wages and conditions of employment shall appoint one (1) person to a committee that will be charged with selecting one (1) person to the board. This committee will meet annually and select the employees' member of the board for the following year by June 1.

(2)

The city manager shall appoint the second member of the board by June 1.

(3)

The third member and chairman of the board shall be appointed mutually by the members appointed by the city manager and the employee organizations.

(4)

In case the board must meet in accordance with this subdivision during the temporary or permanent absence of a member of the board, the city manager shall appoint an interim board member from the public at large with due regard to the representative character of the board.

(5)

The members of the board shall be compensated at the rate of two hundred dollars ($200.00) each per hearing plus travel and per diem, the cost to be shared equally by the parties involved.

(Ord. No. 789, § 3(13) 6-12-90)