1. Determine the majority representative of city employees in an appropriate unit by arranging for a secret ballot election or by any other reasonable method which is based upon written proof, and is designed to ascertain the free choice of a majority of such employees; the employee organization found to represent a majority of the employees in an appropriate unit shall be granted formal recognition and is the only employee organization entitled to meet and confer in good faith in an effort to reach agreement on matters within the scope of representation for employees in such unit; this shall not preclude other recognized employee organizations, or individual employees, from consulting with management representatives on employer-employee relations’ matters of concern to them;

2. Revoke the recognition rights of a majority representative, which has been found by secret ballot election no longer to be the majority representative subject to the limitations set forth in subsection B of this section.

1. Are composed solely of such police officers;

2. Concern themselves solely and exclusively with the wages, hours, working conditions, welfare programs, and advancement of the academic and vocational training in furtherance of the police profession; and

3. Are not subordinate to any other organization. (Prior code § 3.16.110)