Bargaining 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 subsequent calendar year or calendar years.
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.
Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to prevent the parties from entering into an agreement covering a period of more than one calendar year. (Ord. 83-6 §§ 1 (part), 9 (part), 1983; Ord. 79-66 § 1 (part), 1979).