§ 32.002 ESTABLISHMENT AND ADOPTION.

   (A)   In accordance with the provisions of Tex. Local Gov’t Code §§ 143.001 et seq., as amended, there is hereby established a classification plan for all employees in the Fire and Police Departments in the classified service of the city.

   (B)   (1)   Upon the recommendation of the Director, the City Commission hereby establishes and adopts the classification plan set forth in the provisions of this subchapter as the official classification plan of all positions in the classified service of the city.

      (2)   The City Commission reserves to itself the sole right to designate new classes of positions, or combine, divide, alter or abolish existing classes, subject only to the provisions of the Civil Service Law and this subchapter.

(1998 Code, § 90-122)

§ 32.003 CLASS SPECIFICATIONS GENERALLY.

   (A)   The Director shall cause to be maintained in the offices of the Commission, in looseleaf or other suitable form, accurate, complete and up-to-date specifications for every class of positions in the classified service.

   (B)   These specifications shall include:

      (1)   The title of the class;

      (2)   A statement of the duties performed and the responsibilities exercised by each class of positions;

      (3)   Examples of tasks performed by employees holding positions within the class; and

      (4)   The minimum and desirable qualifications required of an incumbent for the satisfactory performance of the duties and tasks and the exercise of the responsibilities.

(1998 Code, § 90-123)

§ 32.004 INTERPRETATION OF CLASS SPECIFICATIONS.

   The specifications for the various classes of positions are hereby declared to have the following force and effect.

   (A)   The specifications are descriptive only and are not restrictive. They are intended to indicate the kinds of positions that should be allocated to the respective classes as determined by their duties, responsibilities and qualification requirements. The use of a particular expression or restriction as to duties, qualification requirements or other attributes shall not be held to exclude others not mentioned if these others are similar as to kind and quality.

   (B)   In determining the class to which any position shall be allocated, the specifications for each class shall be considered as a whole. Consideration is to be given to the general duties, the specific tasks, the responsibilities, the special and desirable qualifications and the relationships to other classes as affording a picture of the positions that the class is intended to include.

   (C)   Titles, as far as possible, are intended to be suggestive of the kind of work performed by the incumbent of the position and indicative of the rank.

   (D)   The duties statement shall be construed as a general description of the kind of work performed by the incumbent of a position that is properly allocated to the class and not as describing or limiting what the duties of any position shall be.

   (E)   The examples of work shall be construed as typical tasks only, illustrative of the duties as outlined by the general statement. These examples are not intended to be complete or exclusive, and the fact that the actual tasks performed by the incumbent of a position do not appear thereon shall not be taken to mean that the position is necessarily excluded from the class; provided that, the tasks constituting the main work or employment are duly covered by the general statement of the duties. Any one example of a typical task taken without relation to the general statement of duties and all other parts of the specifications shall not be construed as determining whether a position should be allocated to the class.

   (F)   The statement of special and desirable qualifications constitutes a part of the description of the kind of employment by expressing the minimum and desired qualifications expected of any new appointee if he or she is to perform the work properly, and is to be so construed and not as imposing in itself any new or additional requirements for the filling of positions. Even though they may not be mentioned in the qualifications statement, such qualifications as should be properly required in common of all incumbents of all positions, such as good physical health, freedom from defects, citizenship, honesty, sobriety and industry, are to be considered as part of the qualification requirements.

(1998 Code, § 90-124)

§ 32.005 ALLOCATION OF POSITIONS TO CLASSES; USE OF CLASS TITLES.

   The Director shall allocate each position in the classified service to its appropriate class in the classification plan. The allocation shall be based on the duties and responsibilities of the present incumbents of the positions and shall be entered on the official roster cards maintained by the Commission. The title of the class shall forthwith become the title of the individual positions and shall be used in payrolls submitted to the proper disbursing officer, in requests to the Commission for the certification of eligibles, in reports made to the Commission as provided by the rules and regulations of the Commission and in any other official records and communications of the Commission and of all budget and financial officers.

(1998 Code, § 90-125)

§ 32.006 REALLOCATION OF POSITION WHEN DUTIES CHANGE.

   (A)   Whenever a new position should be established or the duties of an existing position are so changed that in effect the old position as described in the class specification for the class to which it was originally allocated no longer exists and in its place there is created a position which should be allocated to a different class, the Director, in consultation with the department heads, shall report this fact to the Commission and send in on the Commission’s prescribed form a full statement of the circumstances and a description of the duties as changed.

   (B)   Upon the recommendation of the Commission, after a full investigation of the actual and proposed duties, responsibilities and qualification requirements, the City Commission may allocate or reallocate the position to its appropriate class in accordance with the classification plan then in effect.

   (C)   If necessary, a new class shall be established to provide for the new position. The Commission shall likewise from time to time of its own motion make investigations of any or all positions in the classified service and shall, in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, make recommendations to the City Commission for the allocation of positions whenever the facts are such as to warrant this action.

(1998 Code, § 90-126)

§ 32.007 HEARING ON APPEALS FROM ALLOCATION.

   If an employee believes that his or her position has been improperly allocated, he or she may protest by presenting his or her reason therefor upon such forms or documents as the Director may prescribe. The claim shall be investigated by the Director and the Commission, then referred to the City Commission for its decision, which shall be final.

(1998 Code, § 90-127)

§ 32.008 STATUS OF PRESENT EMPLOYEE UPON REALLOCATION TO DIFFERENT CLASS.

   If a position at any time is reallocated to a different class to correct an error in the original allocation, the incumbent shall continue in the position without tests or other proofs of fitness. If a position is reallocated to another class on account of changed duties and responsibilities, the incumbent may, upon written recommendation of the department head, the passing of a non-competitive examination given by the Director and approval of the Commission, continue in the position. This shall not apply if an employee is actually transferred to another position involving substantially different or higher qualifications, but only in those cases where new duties and responsibilities have been added or absorbed by the incumbent in addition to his or her regularly assigned work.

(1998 Code, § 90-128)

§ 32.009 FIRE DEPARTMENT; CLASSES OF POSITIONS.

   (A)   Effective on October 16, 2014, at 12:01 a.m., the following classes of positions, and number of positions within each classification, were hereby established in the classified service of the city’s Fire Department:

 

Firefighter	42
Engineer	19
Captain	11
Battalion Fire Chief	3
Assistant Fire Chief	1
Total	76

 

   (B)   Effective on December 21, 2016, at 12:01 a.m., the following classes of positions, and number of positions within each classification, were hereby established in the classified service of the city’s Fire Department:

 

Firefighter	39
Engineer	19
Captain	11
Battalion Fire Chief	3
Assistant Fire Chief	1
Total	73

 

   (C)   Effective on June 2, 2021, at 12:01 a.m., the following classes of positions, and number of positions within each classification, are hereby established in the classified service of the city’s Fire Department:

 

Firefighter	40
Engineer	19
Captain	11
Battalion Fire Chief	3
Assistant Fire Chief	1
Total	74

(1998 Code, § 90-151) ( Ord. 01-05, passed 3-7-2000; Ord. 00-74, passed 11-1-2000; Ord. 04-14, passed 6-2-2004; Ord. 04-30, passed 7-7-2004; Ord. 05-05, passed 4-6-2005; Ord. 06-41, passed 12-6-2006; Ord. 07-08, passed 2-7-2007; Ord. 07-51, passed 12-19-2007; Ord. 08-52, passed 12-17-2008; Ord. 09-06, passed 2-18-2009; Ord. 14-27, passed 10-15-2014; Ord. 16-38, passed 12-21-2016; Ord. 21-12, passed 6-2-2021)

§ 32.010 POLICE DEPARTMENT; CLASSES OF POSITIONS; AUTHORIZED STRENGTH.

   (A)   Classes of positions. The following classes of positions are hereby established in the classified service of the City Police Department:

      (1)   Patrol officer;

      (2)   Corporal;

      (3)   Sergeant;

      (4)   Identification officer;

      (5)   Identification officer, sergeant; and

      (6)   Captain.

   (B)   Authorized strength.

      (1)   Effective on January 5, 2022, the following classes of positions, and number of positions within each classification, were hereby established in the classified service of the city’s Police Department:

 

Assistant Police Chief	1
Captain	3
Lieutenant	4
Sergeant	8
Police Officers	85
Total	101

      (2)   Effective on April 19, 2023, the following classes of positions, and number of positions within each classification, were hereby established in the classified service of the city’s Police Department:

 

Assistant Police Chief	1
Captain	3
Lieutenant	4
Sergeant	10
Police Officers	83
Total	101

(1998 Code, § 90-172) (Ord. 00-62, passed 10-4-2000; Ord. 00-63, passed 10-4-2000; Ord. 03-22, passed 7-2-2003; Ord. 03-39, passed 10-1-2003; Ord. 06-03, passed 1-18-2006; Ord. 06-31, passed 7-19-2006; Ord. 07-03, passed 2-17-2007; Ord. 07-34, passed 9-19-2007; Ord. 08-08, passed 2-20-2008; Ord. 08-39, passed 9-17-2008; Ord. 11-14, passed 5-4-2011; Ord. 11-30, passed 9-7-2011; Ord. 16-23, passed 7-6-2016; Ord. 16-37, passed 12-21-2016; Ord. 17-15, passed 5-3-2017; Ord. 18-02, passed 1-17-2018; Ord. 18-14, passed 7-18-2018; Ord. 20-52, passed 12-2-2020; Ord. 2022-02, passed 1-5-2022; Ord. 2023-15, passed 4-19-2023)