(a) Requests for creation of new or additional positions shall be directed in triplicate by the appointing authority to the City Council. Such requests shall describe the position or positions desired, including the duties, responsibilities and pay range considered appropriate; and shall fully justify the necessity therefor.
(b) Such request shall be filed with the City Clerk and shall thereupon automatically stand referred to the Personnel Committee of the City Council. Upon such filing, the Clerk shall transmit the request to the Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services and a copy thereof to the General Manager of the Personnel Department. The Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services shall make a report and recommendation thereon to the Personnel Committee for the guidance of the Council, such recommendation to include, but not be limited to, the findings of the Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services as to the necessity for such position or positions. Whenever the report of the Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services recommends the creation of any new or additional position in the classified civil service, he shall transmit to the City Council concurrently with his report a report from the General Manager of the Personnel Department to the City Council indicating what changes, if any, in the classification plan will be required and what recommendations with reference thereto the said General Manager proposes to make to the Board of Civil Service Commissioners in case such recommended position or positions are created.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 89,100.
Amended by: Ord. No. 90,377; Subsec. (a), (b), Ord. No. 148,663, Eff. 7-12-76, Oper. 7-4-76; Ord. No. 150,582, Eff. 3-24-78, Oper. 4-1-78; Subsec. (b), Ord. No. 164,741, Eff. 5-27-89, Oper. 7-1-89; Ord. No. 173,308, Eff. 6-30-00, Oper. 7-1-00.