EMPLOYER REFUSAL TO BARGAIN IN GOOD FAITH; UNILATERAL CHANGE (FOR NEGOT OF SPECIFIC SUBJECTS, SEE SEC 1000, SCOPE OF REPRESENTATION) – Time of Implementation

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A public agency may be privileged to place a measure on the ballot prior to completing negotiations when it is “faced with an imminent need to act prior to the statutory deadline for submitting the [measure] for the ballot.” But the statutory deadline itself is not such an “imminent need.” No evidence in the record established an “imminent need” for the County to have called a special election to place the ballot measure on the November 2020 ballot. As a result, the County’s obligation to meet and confer over the measure’s negotiable amendments before placing it on the ballot was not excused. (pp. 51-52.)