(A) Bargaining between the city and the police officers shall begin at a mutually agreeable time prior to the beginning of the salary ordinance and budget- making processes. On the issues subject to bargaining, such bargaining shall be intended to develop agreement between the parties to be effective for a calendar year or calendar years.
(B) The same schedule shall be followed thereafter so that bargaining on the issues subject to bargaining shall occur in any year with respect to the following calendar year or years. Unless mutually agreed otherwise by the parties, bargaining in any year with respect to the following calendar year or years shall begin no later than April 1 and shall end no later than July 1 of the same year.
(`81 Code, § 35.39) (Ord. 1782, passed 8-1-83)