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If the parties have exhausted the mediation process, the matter shall be submitted to the <br />City Council for resolution. <br />Section 20: Construction <br />This Resolution shall be administered and construed as follows. <br />Nothing in this Resolution shall be construed to deny to any person, employee, <br />organization, the City, or any authorized officer, body or other representative of the City, <br />the rights, powers and authority granted by Federal or State law or City Charter <br />provisions. <br />Nothing in this Resolution shall be construed as making the provisions of California <br />Labor Code Section 923 applicable to City employees or employee organizations, or of <br />giving employees or employee organizations the right to participate in, support, <br />cooperate or encourage, directly or indirectly, any strike, sickout, other total or partial. <br />stoppage or slowdown of work or any other interference with the conduct of the City's <br />operations. <br />Nothing contained in this Resolution shall abrogate any written Memorandum of <br />Understanding between any employee organization and the City in effect on the effective <br />date of this Resolution. All such agreements shall continue in effect for the duration of <br />the term specified therein unless modified or rescinded by mutual agreement of the <br />parties thereto. <br />Whenever written notice is required by this Resolution, such notice shall deem to have <br />been received on the day immediately following the day on which it was mailed <br />(excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays on which the offices of the City are closed) <br />provided the same was sent by first class or certified mail, postage prepaid to the City at <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, California 92701, or to any employee organization at its <br />last address furnished to the City. <br />Section 21: Severability <br />In any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Resolution, or the application <br />of such portion to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid by a decision of any <br />court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this Resolution, or the application of <br />such portion to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, <br />shall not be affected thereby. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed <br />this Resolution and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, <br />irrespective of the fact that any. or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or <br />phrases be declared invalid. <br />79 <br />