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B. The proposed representation unit is an appropriate unlt 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 (10) days after making said determination, inform the petitioning employee organization, shallgive written notice of such request for recognition to the employees in the unit and shall take no action on said request for thirty (30) days thereafter. If either of the foregoingmatters are not affirmatively determined, the Employee Relations Officer shall meet and discuss the matter with such petitioning employee orga- nization, and, if such determination thereafter remains unchanged, shall inform that organization of the reasons therefor in writing. The petitioning employee organization may appeal such determination in accordance with Section 13 of this Resolution. Section 8: Open Period for Filin~ Challen~in~ Petition(s) Within thirty (30) days of the date written notice was given to affected em- ployees that a valid Recognition Petition(s) for an appropriate unit has been filed, any other employee organization may file a competing request to be for- mally acknowledged as therecogntzed employee organization of the employees in the same or in an overlapping unit (one which corresponds with repsect to some but not all the classifications or positions set forth in the Recognition Peti- tion being challenged), by filing a petition(m) evidencing proof of employee support in the unit claimed to be appropriate of at least thirty (30) percent and otherwise in the same form and manner as set forth in Sectiun 6 of this Resolution. If such challenging petition(s) seeks establishment of an over- lapping unit, the Employee Relations Officer shall call for a hearing on such overlapping petitions for thepurpose of ascertaining the more appropriate unit, at which time the petitioning employee organizations shall be heard. There- after, the Employee Relations Officer shall determine the appropriate unit or units in accordance with the standards in Section 11 of this Resoltuion. The petitioning employee organizations shall have fifteen (15) days from the date notice of such unit determination is communicated to them by the Employee Re- lations Officer to amend their petitions to conform to such determination or to appeal such determinatien 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 con- cerned employee organization(s) in accordance with its rules and procedures subject to the provisions of this Resolution. All employeeorganizations 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 orga- nization'' 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 i~mmediately prior to the date which ended at least fifteen (15) days before the date the election co~ences, including those who did not work during such period because of illness, vacation or other authorized leaves of absence, and who are employed by the City in the same unit on the date of the election. An employee organization shallbe formally acknowledged as the Recognized Em- ployee Organization for the designated appropriate unit following an election or run-off election if it received a numerical majority of all valid votes cast in the election. If an election involving three or more choices, where none of the choices receives a majority of the valid votes cast, a run-off election shall be conducted between the two choices receivingthe largest number of valid votes cast (that is, either between two employee organizations, or one employee organization and no representation); the rules governing an initial election being applicable to a run-off election, except that the run- off election shall be held within fifteen (15) days following the certification of the initial election results. There shall be no more than one valid election under this Resolution pursuant to any petition in a 12-month period affecting the same unit.