Effective Date and Notifications. This Agreement will become effective on the 1st day of July, 2021, and will continue in full force and effect through the 30th day of June, 2024. Either party may notify in writing at least 120 days prior to the expiration date of this agreement that it desires to modify the Agreement. All other Articles, conditions, and past practices in which modifications are not desired by either party herein, will remain in effect, subject to final ratification of the total agreement. During the term of this agreement, negotiations may be opened by either party in the event that federal and/or state law changes with regard to Health Insurance coverage within ninety (90) days after the effective date of the law change. The parties acknowledge that during the negotiations that resulted in this Agreement, each had the unlimited right and opportunity to make demands and proposals with respect to any subject or matter not removed by law from the area of collective bargaining, and that all the understandings and agreements arrived at by the parties after their exercise of that right and opportunity are set forth in this Agreement. Therefore, the City and Union, for the life of this Agreement, each voluntarily and unqualifiedly waives the right and releases the other from the obligation to bargain collectively with respect to any subject or matter referred to or covered in this Agreement, even though such subject or matter may not have been within the knowledge or contemplation of either or both of the parties at the time they negotiated or signed this Agreement. The foregoing waiver will not be binding if the parties mutually agree to engage in collective bargaining, with respect to a particular subject or matter covered or not covered in this Agreement.
