(a) City manager.
(1) The city manager is designated by the charter as the chief administrative and executive officer with appointing authority for all positions of employment with the city, except as otherwise provided by the city charter.
(2) The city manager is responsible for employee efficiency, morale, and welfare. The city manager, a department director, or a designated representative of either may discharge, demote, suspend, or reprimand any employee, subject to provisions of the charter.
(b) Director of human resources. The director of human resources is appointed by the city manager to administer the human resources system as established by the city charter, this chapter, and other applicable city ordinances and state and federal laws. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Establishing processing and orientation procedures for all new city employees.
(2) Reviewing and approving all appointments, reappointments, and reinstatements to city employment.
(3) Providing and administering human resources programs, rules, regulations, procedures, and actions affecting employment status, including, but not limited to, promotions, transfers, leaves of absence, and paid leave programs.
(4) Administering and ensuring compliance with disciplinary and grievance procedures in cooperation with department directors, assistant directors, and supervisors, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
(5) Reviewing departmental human resources programs, rules, regulations, procedures, and actions and ensuring compliance with city policies and this chapter.
(6) Ensuring departmental compliance and cooperation with the rules and regulations of the civil service board, when applicable.
(7) Providing regulations, guidelines, procedures, and assistance to employees and departments regarding human resources-related complaints, excluding formal complaints filed with the civil service board.
(8) Regulating information made available to employees by regular distribution, including all charity drives or fund solicitations in which employees are asked to contribute or participate.
(9) Developing and administering, in cooperation with other departments, training and development programs for city employees.
(10) Administering the employee benefit program as directed by the city manager.
(11) Developing, recommending, and administering equitable compensation and benefit programs for city employees.
(12) Maintaining master employee human resources files and, in consultation with the city attorney, developing procedures for responding to all requests for human resources information.
(13) Reviewing all council resolutions amending the number of budgeted positions or the salary and classification schedules.
(14) Maintaining an employee service awards program.
(15) Administering classification and evaluation programs applicable to positions of employment.
(16) Administering the unemployment compensation program.
(17) Maintaining a human resources information system and preparing and submitting all statistical human resources reports required by federal, state, or other agencies.
(18) Providing guidance, consultation, and personnel information to other departments.
(19) Developing and maintaining an employee performance evaluation and associated merit pay program.
(20) Performing all other actions necessary for the proper administration of the human resources system as established by the city charter, this chapter, and other applicable city ordinances and state and federal laws.
(c) Fire and police departments. The chiefs of the fire and police departments shall, respectively, designate an officer of rank in each department who shall act as human resources officer, subject to the direction and supervision of the chief of the department. Those officers shall cooperate with the director of human resources in all departmental human resources matters relating to their respective departments and maintain complete departmental human resources records.
(d) Certification for classified positions. The names of persons eligible for classified positions are certified by the civil service board only upon request of the city manager, a department head, the director of human resources, or a designated representative. (Ord. Nos. 19340; 19473; 22026; 24873; 28424; 31745)