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(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.
(a) The rates of pay for all employees shall be defined in the city’s Wage and Salary Schedule. Said Schedule shall provide for a minimum, midpoint and maximum amount of compensation, as well. The Mayor is hereby authorized to fix the compensation for an employee based upon said schedule dependent upon the efficiency, merit and seniority of an employee, or any other consideration which is deemed pertinent. In the event that the Mayor determines that an employee, newly hired and/or promoted, should be paid at a rate beyond the midpoint, approval of the Council Finance Committee shall be required.
(b) Commencing January 1, 2003, all employees of the city shall be paid on the same bi-weekly payday or every other Friday. The amount of pay shall be for what each employee earns in the two-week pay period concluding or ending the week before each payday. In the case of salaried and/or modified salaried employees, their bi-weekly earnings shall equate to the annual amount for their respective grade and step in the current pay scale, for the period between and including the dates of January 1 to December 31 each year.
(c) Effective January 1, 2003, the annual appropriation for payroll shall be based upon the amount earned and payable (not paid) to employees between and including the date of January 1 to December 31.
(Ord. 1998-25, passed 5-18-1998; Ord. 2002-219, passed 10-7-2002)
(a) Generally. Except as otherwise provided in this section, and except for those employees defined as exempt, employees shall be compensated for hours in excess of 40 scheduled hours worked per calendar week at the rate of one and one-half times their established hourly compensation. For computation purposes, the basis for 40 scheduled hours of work shall include any approved paid leave time for vacation, sick, holiday, personal and compensatory time.
(b) Compensatory time. In lieu of overtime compensation, and with the concurrence of an employee’s department head, an employee may accumulate not more than 40 hours of compensatory paid time off. Such time shall be calculated at the rate of one and one-half hours of compensatory time for each hour of overtime worked.
(c) Employees in Departments of Police Service, Engineering, Building, Water Reclamation and Information Systems. Non-exempt employees in the Departments of Police Service, Engineering, Building, Water Reclamation and Information Systems who are required to work on an emergency basis on Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day shall be compensated for such service at the rate of two times their hourly rate of compensation for hours worked. Employees in these Departments who are called out to perform services on behalf of the city shall be paid for not less than three hours, provided that such call-out service is not contiguous with regularly scheduled work hours.
(d) Other full-time employees.
(1) Hourly paid employees assigned to clerical duties at evening meetings shall be paid a minimum of one hour at a rate of time and one-half for such meeting provided the meeting is not part of regularly scheduled work day hours.
(2) For time in excess of one hour at such meetings, payment shall be made in increments of 15 minutes (rounded upwards) at time and one-half.
(e) Approved flexible work schedule exception. If the Mayor or the Mayor’s designee and the employee’s department head approve, and a non-exempt full-time employee elects to work a 40 hour per week work schedule other than five, eight-hour days, then such an employee shall be compensated at the rate of one and one-half times their established hourly compensation only for those hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week.
(Ord. 1998-25, passed 5-18-1998; Ord. 2001-185, passed 7-16-2001; Ord. 2002-106, passed 5-6-2002; Ord. 2004-238, passed 11-1-2004; Ord. 2010-281, passed 12-20-2010; Ord. 2012-201, passed 8-20-2012)
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