(A) Appointments to vacant positions in the competitive service shall be made in accordance with the personnel rules promulgated in this chapter. The appointing authority of employees in the competitive service is the City Manager, except when the City Attorney is the appointing authority as provided for in § 2.16.080 of this code. The City Manager and City Attorney may delegate their appointing authority to any other officer or employee of the city.
(B) Appointments and promotions shall be based on merit and fitness to be ascertained so far as practicable by competitive examinations. Examinations may be used and conducted to aid in the selection of qualified employees and shall consist of selection techniques which will test fairly the qualifications of candidates such as achievement and aptitude tests, written tests, personal interview, performance tests, physical agility tests, evaluation of daily work performance, work samples or any combinations of these or other tests. The probationary period shall be considered an extension of the examination process. Physical, background and medical tests may be given as a part of any examination, in accordance with law. In any examination, the appointing authority or their designee may include, in addition to competitive tests, a qualifying test or tests, and set minimum standards therefor.
(C) In addition to regular appointments, the appointing authority may make a provisional appointment of a person meeting the minimum qualifications for the position. A provisional employee shall mean an employee who, for budgetary purposes, is provisional until such time the employment position is formally added to the approved budgeted positions for that department. An employee who was regularly employed in a non-provisional position immediately prior to a provisional appointment may have bumping rights into his or her prior position, pursuant to the applicable memorandum of understanding.
(Ord. 3189 § 10, 2015; Ord. 2573 § 1, 2002.)