The City maintains the right and the authority to administer each City department, to promulgate rules and regulations and to exercise the prerogatives of management, including, but not limited to, the following:
(a) Determine matters of inherent managerial policy which include, but are not limited to, areas of discretion or policy, such as the functions and programs of the public employer, standards of service, its overall budget, utilization of technology and organizational structure;
(b) Direct, supervise, evaluate or hire employees;
(c) Maintain and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of governmental operations;
(d) Determine the overall methods, process, means or personnel by which governmental operations are to be conducted;
(e) Suspend, discipline, demote or discharge for just cause, or lay off, transfer, assign, schedule, promote or retain, employees;
(f) Determine the adequacy of the workforce;
(g) Determine the overall mission of the employer as a unit of government;
(h) Effectively manage the workforce;
(i) Take action to carry out the mission of the public employer as a governmental unit; and
(j) Administer drug and alcohol pre-employment testing and employment testing, as required by any state and/or Federal statute.
(Ord. 2453. Passed 4-10-95; Ord. 3263. Passed 11-25-19.)