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(a) City Administrative Officer. On the Operative Date of this Charter, the person then serving as City Administrative Officer shall be deemed to be appointed to the position of Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services. That office shall perform those duties assigned to it by the Charter.
(b) City Engineer; Purchasing Agent. On the Operative Date of this Charter, the positions of City Engineer and Purchasing Agent shall continue to exist to the extent provided by ordinance.
After the Operative Date of this Charter, the departments of Animal Regulation and Building and Safety, which are no longer included in the Charter, shall continue to exist, and to perform the powers and duties prescribed for them in the Charter immediately prior to the Operative Date, until the departments, powers or duties are changed or eliminated by ordinance.
The adoption of this Charter is not intended to affect the powers and duties of the Department of Cultural Affairs or Department of Transportation or their respective commissions. Those powers and duties shall continue until changed or eliminated by ordinance.
(a) No change in the appointment process for any City officer or employee shall affect the status of any person serving as a City officer or employee as of the Operative Date of this Charter. Changes in the process for removal of any City officer or employee shall be effective upon the Operative Date of this Charter.
(b) Individuals in civil service positions that become exempt through the enactment of this Charter shall not have civil service standing as to the newly exempt positions, but will retain their civil service status as to their prior position in accordance with Section 1001 (e).
(c) Any City officer or employee in the service of the City on the Operative Date of this Charter, whose position becomes part of the classified civil service by reason of the enactment of this Charter, shall continue in his or her present position with the full seniority and other rights he or she would have if he or she had been under the classified civil service from the commencement of his or her City service.
Changes in the civil service discipline provisions of Section 1016 shall not affect any proceeding or action that has been commenced prior to the Operative Date of this Charter.
(a) Changes in Boards. After the Adoption Date of this Charter, the Council and Mayor shall take all steps necessary to:
(1) Create Area Planning Commissions as prescribed in Section 552, and appoint the members of those boards whose terms shall commence July 1, 2000.
(2) Define the residency requirement for two members of the Airport Commission provided in Section 630 of this Charter, and appoint two additional members, whose terms shall commence July 1, 2000, so that commission composition satisfies the residency requirements.
(3) Define the residency requirement for the member of the Harbor Commission provided in Section 650 of this Charter prior to July 1, 2000. The Mayor shall appoint a member to the Commission satisfying the residency requirements of that ordinance if not otherwise satisfied, upon the first vacancy to occur in the Harbor Commission on or after July 1, 2000.
(4) Establish the procedures for the election process to elect two additional members to the Board of Fire and Police Pension Commissioners provided in Section 1104(a) so that the terms of the two additional members may commence on July 1, 2000.
(5) The Mayor shall appoint a City Employee Retirement System retiree to the first opening in a term of a commissioner of the Board of Administration for the Los Angeles City Employees Retirement System appointed by the Mayor, occurring on or after July 1, 2000.
(6) The Board of Water and Power Commissioners shall appoint a department retiree to replace one of the Water and Power Commissioners serving on the Board of Administration of the Water and Power Employees Retirement System, so that the term of that member may commence July 1, 2000.
(b) Rules, Regulations and Codes. After the Adoption Date of this Charter, and prior to its Operative Date:
(1) Each officer, department, agency, and board responsible for promulgating rules and regulations of the City under this Charter shall review all rules and regulations for which it is responsible, and amend and adopt rules and regulations consistent with this Charter to become effective July 1, 2000. The rules and regulations shall be submitted to the City Attorney sufficiently in advance of that date to permit City Attorney review.
(2) The City Attorney, City Administrative Officer and City Clerk shall review all provisions of the Administrative, Municipal, and Election Codes and report to the Mayor and propose to the Council the adoption of ordinances or amendments consistent with this Charter, to become effective July 1, 2000.
(c) Each department shall assess whether any changes in personnel or resources will be needed in light of changed duties under the new Charter, and make recommendations to the Mayor and Council.
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