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new or revised plan or plans, then such plan or plans shall become the City's plan <br />or plans, and the Employer shall be authorized and directed to implement the plan <br />or plans. <br />If the committee, however, fails within six months after its first meeting to <br />approve a new or revised plan or plans, then the Employer shall be authorized to <br />submit the matter to binding arbitration with an arbitrator selected by mutual <br />agreement using the American Arbitration Association. The submittal shall instruct <br />the Arbitrator to select from health care plans submitted and order the Employer to <br />implement such new or revised health care plan or plans for all City employees <br />that meets the goals set forth above. <br />The committee shall meet thereafter at least every other year, commencing <br />in the year 2006, when called upon by Employer to consider further and additional <br />revisions to the City's plan or plans in order to meet the goals set forth above. <br />When meeting in such future years, the committee and the Employer shall <br />continue to follow the procedures set forth above for approving appropriate <br />additional revisions to the City's health care plan or plans. <br />In no event shall the Employer implement a new or revised health care plan <br />or plans, pursuant to either cornmittee approval or arbitration order, earlier than <br />January 1, 2005. When the Employer implements a new or revised health care <br />plan or plans, either pursuant to either committee approval or as a result of an <br />arbitrator's order, the provisions of Sections One through Eight of this Article shall, <br />to the extent that they are inconsistent or in conflict with the new or revised plan or <br />plans approved or ordered, no longer be binding upon the Employer. <br />In the event that the City and other bargaining units fail to agree to the <br />establishment of the Employee Health Care Committee set forth above, the Employer <br />and Ohio Patrolmen's Benevolent Association ("OPBA") shall meet to negotiate new <br />Health Care provisions. Should the City and 4PBA not come to mutual agreement, the <br />issue of Health care coverage shall be submitted to binding conciliation under the O. R. <br />C. 4117. <br />ARTICLE 29: <br />LONGEVITY <br />Prior to Januarv 1. 2005 <br />SECTION 1: All employees hired prior to January 1, 1990 shall receive annual <br />longevity pay as additional compensation computed on annual wages which shall be <br />divided by twenty-six (26) and included in each paycheck as follows: <br />4% after employee completes 5 years <br />5% after employee completes 10 years <br />6% after employee completes 15 years <br />26