(a) "Allocation" means the assignment of an individual position to an appropriate class on the basis of the kind, difficulty and responsibility of the work actually performed in the position.
(b) "Appointing authority" means the officer or agency having power under the Charter and ordinances to make appointments to positions in the classified service.
(c) "Classified service" shall consist of all full-time firefighters and police officers who are employees of the City, except those specifically exempted by the Charter.
(d) "Classes of positions" shall consist of all positions in the classified service which are sufficiently alike in duties, authority and responsibility to be treated in the same manner for personnel purposes.
(e) "Class specifications" are those duties imposed upon the personnel of each division by the Administrative Code.
(f) "Demotion" means the change of an employee from a position in one salary grade to a position in another salary grade having a lower maximum salary rate.
(g) "Eligible" means a person whose name is on a list prepared by the Personnel Officer as the result of passing an open competitive examination or on a re-employment list.
(h) "Eligible list" means a list of eligibles, in the order of their final grades in an open competitive examination, or in an order determined by this chapter, prepared by the Personnel Officer.
(i) "Position" means a group of duties and responsibilities designed to be performed by an individual. Positions shall be created and abolished by the City Manager.
(j) "Probationary period" means the working test period during which a bargaining unit employee is required to demonstrate their fitness by actual performance of the duties of the position to which they have been appointed.
(k) "Promotion" means the change of an employee from a position in one salary grade to a position in another salary grade having a higher maximum salary rate.
(1) "Regular employee" means a full-time police officer or firefighter who has passed a physical examination, has been appointed to a position in the classified service from an eligible list and who has satisfactorily completed probationary period..
(m) "Full-time, employee" means a person who regularly works a forty (40) hour work week, or a person who works a twenty-eight (28) day schedule at a yearly salary as a full-time employee of the Fire Division and in both cases are either on a probationary period or a regular employee.
(n) "Part-time employee" means a person who regularly works twenty-nine (29) hours a week or less and is paid by the hour, and does not receive any of the fringe benefits as set forth in other sections of this Code.
(o) "Administrative employee" means the City Manager, Director of Finance, Fire Chief, Police Chief and Police Captain.
(Ord. 2023-22. Passed 8-22-23.)