Case Name: PANAMA CITY, Florida, Petitioner, v. The FLORIDA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RELATIONS COMMISSION, and Northwest Florida Police Benevolent Association, Inc., Respondents
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1976-05-05
Citations: 333 So. 2d 470
Docket Number: No. BB-186
Parties: PANAMA CITY, Florida, Petitioner, v. The FLORIDA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RELATIONS COMMISSION, and Northwest Florida Police Benevolent Association, Inc., Respondents.
Judges: McCORD, Acting C. J., and SMITH, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 333
Pages: 470–471

Head Matter:
PANAMA CITY, Florida, Petitioner, v. The FLORIDA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RELATIONS COMMISSION, and Northwest Florida Police Benevolent Association, Inc., Respondents.
No. BB-186.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
May 5, 1976.
Rehearing Denied June 29, 1976.
John-Edward Alley, Alley & Alley, Robert A. Hanudel, Tampa, Rowlett W. Bryant, Sale, Bryant, Daniel & Thompson, Panama City, for petitioner.
Curtis L. Mack, Jack L. McLean, Jr., Gerad A. Williams, and Ben R. Patterson, Tallahassee, for respondents.

Opinion:
MILLS, Judge.
The City filed a petition to review the Commission's orders defining a bargaining unit and directing an election. The Commission moved to quash or dismiss the petition, and the City moved to stay the election. By our order of 5 March 1976, we denied the motion to quash or dismiss, but granted the motion to stay.
Thereafter, we permitted the Association to join in this review as a respondent, and it moved to dissolve the stay. At the time we permitted the joinder of the Association as a respondent, we agreed to reconsider the Commission's motion to quash or dismiss the City's petition for review.
Having considered the record and briefs, and heard oral argument, we set aside our order of 5 March 1976, and grant the Commission's motion to quash or dismiss, and grant the Association's motion to dissolve the stay.
The determination of an appropriate bargaining unit and direction of an election are not final orders. Therefore, under Section 120.68(1), Florida Statutes, the orders are reviewable only if this court finds that the review of the final agency decision would not provide an adequate remedy. We do not so find.
The filing of the petition does not itself stay enforcement of the agency action. A stay may be granted by the agency or by the court upon appropriate terms. Section 120.68(3), Florida Statutes. Therefore, pursuant to Rule 5.5, Florida Appellate Rules, the movant should apply to the agency for supersedeas. Ziers v. Purdy, 324 So.2d 132 (Fla.App.3d, 1975).
It is, therefore, ordered and adjudged that the petition for review is dismissed, and the stay of the election is dissolved.
McCORD, Acting C. J., and SMITH, J., concur.