(a) The unclassified service of the city shall comprise the following positions, which shall not be included in the classified service:
(1) All officers elected by popular vote, or persons appointed to fill vacancies in such offices;
(2) The members of all boards and commissions;
(3) Heads of departments appointed by the Mayor of the city, including:
A. Director of Finance;
B. Director of Law;
C. City Engineer;
D. Director of City Services;
E. Police Chief;
F. Fire Chief;
G. Director of Planning and Community Development;
H. Chief Building Official;
I. Director of Water Reclamation;
J. Director of Recreation;
K. Grantwood Park Manager;
L. Public Works Commissioner;
M. Director of Human Resources;
N. Director of Senior Services;
O. Director of Solon Center for the Arts;
P. Director of Information Technology; and
Q. Clerk of Council.
(4) Any person employed by the City Council;
(5) Clerk of Mayor Court;
(6) Mayor’s Secretary;
(7) Assistant heads of departments;
(8) Secretaries to heads of departments;
(9) Assistants to the Director of Law and the Director of Finance;
(10) Deputies and assistants of elective or principal executive officers authorized to act for and in the place of their principals or holding a fiduciary relation to their principals;
(11) Professional staff and other employees who possess such specialized skills or training that testing for requisite merited fitness would be impracticable, as determined by the Civil Service Commission, including but not limited to:
A. Manager Second Shift;
B. Manager of Fleet Maintenance;
C. Manager of City Sewers and Drainage;
D. Manager of Information Technology;
E. Manager Administration;
F. Manager of Streets and Landscape;
G. Manager of Solid Waste;
H. Manager of Monitoring Division;
I. Manager of Maintenance;
J. Manager of Operations;
K. Supervisor of Accounting;
L. Construction Project Administrator;
M. Economic Development Manager;
N. Planner II;
O. Docket Clerk;
P. Assistant to the Clerk of Council;
Q. Animal Warden;
R. Assistant Supervisor Recreation Department;
S. Golf Pro;
T. Supervisor Recreation Programs;
U. Grounds Supervisor of Golf Course;
V. Contract Compliance Officer;
W. Systems Records Manager;
X. Deputy Tax Auditor;
Y. Administrative Coordinator;
Z. Facility Manager;
AA. Golf Course Manager;
BB. Clerk of Council.
(12) In addition to the employees listed above, up to four clerical and administrative support employees for each of the principal appointive executive officers, boards, or commissions of the city authorized to appoint the same, except the Civil Service Commission of the city;
(13) Employees appointed to administrative staff positions for which the appointing authority is given specific statutory authority to set compensation;
(14) Such students in normal schools, colleges, and universities of the State of Ohio who are employed by the city in student or intern classifications;
(15) Such unskilled labor positions as the Civil Service Commission may find it impracticable to include in the competitive classified service; provided such exemptions shall be by order of the Commission, duly entered on the record of the Commission with the reasons for each such exemption;
(16) Employees who receive temporary or intermittent appointments, per R.C. § 124.30 or city ordinance or City Civil Service Rule;
(17) Seasonal employees;
(18) Auxiliary Police Officers;
(19) Auxiliary Firefighters;
(20) Part-time employees;
(21) Persons who lose their classified status due to a conviction of a felony within the meaning of R.C. § 124.34;
(22) Other positions designated as unclassified by ordinance or charter provision or other law.
(b) Omission of any unclassified position or person from the foregoing specific list(s) of unclassifieds shall not be construed as an intention to render that person or position classified.
(c) There mere failure of an employee’s appointing authority to file a statement with the Commission indicating that the employee is in the unclassified civil service, or the mere late filing of such a statement, does not prevent the employee from being in the unclassified service.