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*This appeal is from a judgment denying mandate to compel the City of Los Angeles to meet and confer with regard to its unilateral institution of parking fees for 76 City employees assigned to work in a city-leased building in downtown Los Angeles, and also denying attorneys’ fees against the city pursuant to section 1021.5, Code of Civil Procedure, and section 800 of the Government Code.

The question presented is whether the determination that the parking fees were not too trivial to trigger the meet and confer obligation, made by the employee relations board (ERB) created by the employee relations ordinance enacted by the City of Los Angeles in 1971 pursuant to the MeyersMilias-Brown Act, is binding upon respondent city if no review is sought or, as contended by respondent city, is advisory only.

The Los Angeles Police Department’s Planning and Research Division and Automated Information Division occupy leased facilities at 207 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles and about 76 sworn personnel are employed at this location. These police department employees had not been required to pay a parking fee prior to December 1980. On September 8, 1980, the city council…