The Commission reserves the right to initiate and conduct investigations of positions in the classified service as such inquiry becomes necessary, and to propose changes in classification when the facts are considered to warrant such action.
(A) In this connection, the Commission may at any time secure from the appointing authority or employees involved, new statements of the duties and responsibilities of the positions under consideration. The appointing authority and employees concerned shall have an opportunity to be heard before the revised classification is approved by the Commission.
Whenever the allocation of a position to a new or different class has been authorized, the Commission, after conferring with the appointing authority concerned,shall determine whether the position of the new class shall continue to be held by the incumbent of the position of the old class through examination or otherwise, or be filled through a competitive examination. Whenever by reason of reorganization of one or more departments, divisions, or bureaus of the city service, one or more employees in the unclassified service are not needed or their positions are abolished in such unclassified service, they or any of them, with the approval of the City Manager and the Commission, may be transferred to positions with similar duties in the classified service, in the same or other department, division, or bureau.
Only employees who have occupied such unclassified service positions for two (2) years or more may be so transferred to the classified service. However, no such transfer shall be made to a position occupied by a regularly appointed employee in the classified service or to a position for which an employee is on a preferred eligibility list by reason of layoff.
(Ord. 16-1970, passed 3-2-70; Am. Ord. 04-2012, passed 5-7-12)