Section 3505.5 Of Chapter 10. Local Public Employee Organizations From California Government Code >> Division 4. >> Title 1. >> Chapter 10.
3505.5
. (a) If the dispute is not settled within 30 days after the
appointment of the factfinding panel, or, upon agreement by both
parties within a longer period, the panel shall make findings of fact
and recommend terms of settlement, which shall be advisory only. The
factfinders shall submit, in writing, any findings of fact and
recommended terms of settlement to the parties before they are made
available to the public. The public agency shall make these findings
and recommendations publicly available within 10 days after their
receipt.
(b) The costs for the services of the panel chairperson selected
by the board, including per diem fees, if any, and actual and
necessary travel and subsistence expenses, shall be equally divided
between the parties.
(c) The costs for the services of the panel chairperson agreed
upon by the parties shall be equally divided between the parties, and
shall include per diem fees, if any, and actual and necessary travel
and subsistence expenses. The per diem fees shall not exceed the per
diem fees stated on the chairperson's résumé on file with the board.
The chairperson's bill showing the amount payable by the parties
shall accompany his or her final report to the parties and the board.
The chairperson may submit interim bills to the parties in the
course of the proceedings, and copies of the interim bills shall also
be sent to the board. The parties shall make payment directly to the
chairperson.
(d) Any other mutually incurred costs shall be borne equally by
the public agency and the employee organization. Any separately
incurred costs for the panel member selected by each party shall be
borne by that party.
(e) A charter city, charter county, or charter city and county
with a charter that has a procedure that applies if an impasse has
been reached between the public agency and a bargaining unit, and the
procedure includes, at a minimum, a process for binding arbitration,
is exempt from the requirements of this section and Section 3505.4
with regard to its negotiations with a bargaining unit to which the
impasse procedure applies.