In order to establish an equitable and uniform procedure for dealing with personnel matters, to attract to municipal service the best and most competent persons available, to assure that appointments and promotions of employees will be based on merit and fitness, and to provide a reasonable degree of security for qualified employees, the personnel system set out in this chapter is adopted. (Prior code § 2.40.010)
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall be defined as indicated:
"Appointing power" means the officers of the city, who, in their individual capacities or as a board, commission or city council, have the final authority to make the appointment to the position to be filled.
"Class" means positions sufficiently similar in duties, authority and responsibility to permit grouping under a common title in the application with equity of common standards of selection, transfer, demotion and salary.
"Competitive service" means all positions of employment in the service of the city except those specifically excluded by this chapter.
"Days" means calendar days unless otherwise stated.
"Demotion" means the movement of an employee from one class to another class having a lower maximum rate of pay.
"Employment list" means a list of names of persons who may be considered for employment with the city under specified conditions.
"Examination" means selection techniques used to measure the relative capacities of the persons applying for the positions within the competitive service.
"Layoff" means the separation of employees from the active work force due to lack of work or funds, or to the abolition of positions by the city council for the above reasons or due to organizational changes.
"Position" means a group of duties and responsibilities in the competitive service requiring the full-time or part-time employment of one person.
"Probationary period" means a working test period during which an employee is required to demonstrate his fitness for the position to which he is appointed by actual performance of the duties of the position.
"Promotion" means the movement of an employee from one class to another class having a higher maximum rate of pay.
"Provisional appointment" means an appointment of a person who possesses the minimum qualifications established for a particular class and who has been appointed to a position in that class in the absence of available eligibles.
"Reinstatement" means the reemployment, without examination, of a former regular employee or probationary employee.
"Suspension" means the temporary separation from the service of an employee, without pay, for disciplinary purposes.
"Transfer" means a change of an employee from one position to another position in the same class or in a comparable class. (Prior code § 2.40.020)
The city administrator shall be the personnel officer. The city administrator may delegate any of the powers and duties conferred upon him as personnel officer under this chapter to any other officer or employee of the city or may recommend that such powers and duties be performed under contract as provided in Section 2.40.200. The personnel officer shall:
A. Administer all the provisions of this chapter and of the personnel rules not specifically reserved to the city council;
B. Prepare and recommend to the city council personnel rules and revisions and amendments to such rules;
C. Prepare or cause to be prepared a position classification plan, including class specifications and revisions of the plan. The plan and any revisions thereof shall become effective upon approval by the city council;
D. Provide for the publishing or posting of notices of tests for positions in the competitive service; the receiving of applications therefor; the conducting and grading of tests; the certification to the appointing power of a list of all persons eligible for appointment to the appropriate position in the competitive service. (Prior code § 2.40.030)
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