Continuing Relationship. a) The parties acknowledge their longstanding history of successful Meet & Confer negotiations and their joint efforts to continue to build on the framework of each previous agreement. This AGREEMENT is the product of that relationship and negotiation history. This includes agreements on the issues which may require a contractual modification of existing civil service law (access to the 143.089(g) file, and release of defined reports from Independent Investigations), agreements to outline the broad concepts of citizen oversight, and agreements which clarify rights which exist with or without the AGREEMENT. Other aspects of the CITY’s implementation of citizen oversight are its prerogatives under Texas law and the City Charter, and do not require contractual provisions. Both parties recognize that without the continued ability of the CITY to carry out citizen oversight, this AGREEMENT would not have been reached, either as to the economic issues or the additional provisions for the procedural protections of Officer’s rights.
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