West Hills Community College District (PERB 1861E)

STATE OF CALIFORNIA
DECISION OF THE
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD
WEST HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
DISTRICT,
Charging Party,
v.
WEST HILLS FACULTY ASSOCIATION,
Respondent.
Case No. SA-CO-506-E
PERB Decision No. 	1861
S e p t e m b e r 	2 9 , 	2006
Appearances: Zampi and Associates by Joseph P. Zampi and Arlene M. Milo, Attorneys, for
West Hills Community College District; California Teachers Association by John F. Kohn,
Attorney, for West Hills Faculty Association.
Before Shek, McKeag and Neuwald, Members.
DECISION
SHEK, Member: This case is before the Public Employment Relations Board (Board)
on appeal by the West Hills Community College District (District) of a Board agent's partial
dismissal of the District's unfair practice charge. 	The unfair practice charge alleged, inter alia,
that the West Hills Faculty Association (Association) violated the Educational Employer-
Employee Relations Act (EERA)1 by failing and refusing to negotiate in good faith over a
period of eighteen months. 	The District alleged that this conduct constituted a violation of
EERA section 3543.5(c).
By letter dated September 7, 2006, the District informed the Board that the District and
the Association had mutually reached a settlement over the successor collective bargaining
agreement. As such, the District is withdrawing its appeal of the partial dismissal of the unfair
EERA is codified at Government Code section 3540, et seq.
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practice charge in this matter. The Board hereby considers the District's request to withdraw
its appeal of the partial dismissal of the charge.
Having reviewed the record in this matter, the Board finds it appropriate to grant the
District's request to withdraw its appeal. The Board finds the withdrawal of the District's
appeal to be in the best interests of the parties and to be consistent with the purposes of EERA.
The Board therefore grants the withdrawal of the District's appeal.
ORDER
The request by the West Hills Community College District to withdraw its appeal of the
partial dismissal in Case No. SA-CO-506-E is hereby GRANTED.
Members McKeag and Neuwald joined in this Decision.
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