A department of civil service is hereby created to be under the control and management of a commission of five members, which said commission shall be known and designated as the civil service commission. The members of said commission shall serve without compensation.
All references in this Charter to the board of civil service trustees shall be deemed to mean and refer to the civil service commission.
All terms of office of all present members of the civil service commission shall expire at 12:01 a.m. on March 23, 1987. Each councilperson, at the second regular city council meeting held in March, 1987, shall appoint one member to the civil service commission and shall announce the names of his or her or her appointee at that meeting.
The term of office for each member of the civil service commission shall terminate annually at 12:01 a.m. on the date of the second regular city council meeting held in March of each year. Commencing on the date of the second regular city council meeting held in March, 1988, and annually thereafter, each councilperson shall appoint one member to the civil service commission and shall announce the name of his or her appointee at that meeting.
No person appointed to the civil service commission shall serve more than eight consecutive yearly terms.
To be eligible to membership on the civil service commission, a person must be a qualified elector of the city and shall have resided in the city for at least thirty days next preceding the date of his or her appointment.
The civil service commission shall organize by electing one of their number president and some suitable person as secretary who shall act and hold office at the pleasure of the commission.
Said commission shall keep a record of its proceedings and transactions, and shall provide rules and regulations for the keeping of service records of city employees and for the classification of such employees.
Editor's note: This section was added by Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 142, which was ratified by the qualified electors of the city June 3, 1969: and amended as approved by the voters of the city at a general municipal election held November 4, 1986. This section was further amended by the voters of the city on March 26, 1996.