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responsibility of the JPA and its employees to effectively and economically serve the public: and (2) providing employees with effective representation based on recognized community of interest considerations. These policy objectives require that the appropriate unit shall be the broadest feasible grouping of positions that share an identifiable community of interest. Factors to be considered shall be: a. Similarity of the general kinds of work performed, types of qualifications required, and the general working conditions. b. The history of employee relations: (i) in the unit; (ii) among other employees of the JPA; and (iii) in similar public employment. C. Consistency with the organizational patterns of the JPA. d. Number of employees and classifications, and the effect on the administration of employer-employee relations created by the fragmentation of classifications and proliferation of units. e. Effect on the classification structure and impact on the stability of the employer- employee relationship of dividing a single or related classifications among two or more units. f. Unit determination, provided, however, that no unit shall be deemed to be an appropriate unit solely on the basis of the extent to which employees in the proposed unit have organized. The Employee Relations Officer shall, after notice to and consultation with affected employee organizations, allocate new classifications or positions, delete eliminated classifications or positions, and retain, reallocate, or delete modified classifications or positions from units in accordance with the provisions of this section. In the establishment of appropriate units, professional employees shall not be denied the right to be represented separately from non-professional employees. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, managerial and confidential responsibilities, as defused in Section 3 of this Resolution, are determining factors in establishing appropriate units hereunder, and therefore such managerial and confidential employees may only be included in units that do not include non -managerial, non -supervisory, and non -confidential employees. Managerial, supervisory, and confidential employees may not represent any employee organization which represents other employees. Section 13. Procedure for Modification of Established Appropriate Units. Requests by employee organizations for modifications of established appropriate units may be considered by the Municipal Employee Relations Officer only during the period specified in Section 13 of this Article II. Such requests shall be submitted in the form of a aA1pfd jpa.sam