Any officer or employee of the city, including assistants and employees in the office of the city clerk, may be laid off, suspended or removed from office or employment by the officer by whom appointed. Written notice of layoff, suspension or removal given directly to an officer or employee, or written notice left at or mailed to his usual place of residence shall be sufficient to put any such layoff, suspension or removal into effect unless the person so notified shall, within five working days after such notice, demand a written statement of the reasons therefor and the right to be heard publicly before the city manager and the officer by whom such notice was given. Upon such demand, the officer making the layoff, suspension or removal shall supply the person notified thereof with a written statement of the reasons therefor and the city manager shall fix a time and place for the public hearing. Following the public hearing the city manager shall, by a decision in writing, make such disposition of the case as, in his opinion, the good of the service may require, and such decision shall be final. A copy of the statement of reasons for any layoff, suspension or removal, a copy of any written reply thereto by the officer or employee involved, and a copy of the final decision of the officer by whom the layoff, suspension or removal was made, shall be filed as public records in the office of the civil service commission or other appropriate personnel office of the city.
(Adopted by electorate, November 6, 1979 – Amending Ordinance No. 50-79; Adopted by electorate, November 7, 1989 – Amending Ordinance No. 54-89; Adopted by electorate, November 2, 2010 – Amending Ordinance No. 19-10)