(a) Removal. The Manager shall have the power, and when just cause is evident is required, to dismiss any employee from any position over which he/she has appointing authority.
(b) Resignation.
(1) Resigned employees shall be paid for accrued unused vacation leave providing that the resignation was “in good standing”. Resignation in good standing requires that the employee:
A. Give written notice to the Manager at least two weeks prior to the proposed effective date, and
B. Pay his/her just debts owed the City, and
C. Return all items of City property in her this possession; and
D. Reimburse the City for any lost or damaged property for which he/she is responsible, and
E. Is not, on the effective date of resignation, under suspension or the subject of a proposed disciplinary suspension, demotion or dismissal which is later affirmed by the Manager.
(2) Employees who resign from the City service in good standing may be reinstated at the option of the Manager, to their former positions, or position of equal or lesser work, without competitive examination, within one year of date of resignation.
(c) Lay-offs.
(1) When a reduction in force becomes necessary because of lack of work, lack of funds or abolishment of position(s), the reduction shall be made in such position(s) as the Manager designates. Within each affected class, all temporary employees shall be laid off first in inverse order of seniority followed by provisional employees in inverse order of seniority, followed by probationary employees in inverse order of seniority, before regular employees.
(2) Regular employees shall be laid off or reduced in rank in the inverse order of their relative length and quality of service with the City, as determined by retention points. Nothing herein shall require that part-time employees be included in a layoff.
(3) Retention points shall be determined by multiplying an incumbent's applicable seniority by fifty percent (50%) and adding to such figure the result of multiplying the incumbent's quality of service rating by fifty percent (50%), as illustrated:
(Seniority x 50% + Quality of Service x 50%)
A. Seniority shall be determined as follows:
(AA) One point per month up to 60 months; and
(BB) One-half point per month for each month above 60, up to 100 months; and
(CC) One-quarter point per month for each month above 100, up to 180 months.
Seniority shall be expressed as a point value for one to one- hundred (100).
B. Quality of service shall be determined by the last two annual and/or probationary performance evaluations. The most recent evaluation shall count seventy-five percent (75%) and the next most recent twenty-five percent (25%), for incumbents with only one evaluation on record, such evaluation shall constitute one hundred percent (100%) of quality of service. Those incumbents lacking a performance evaluation shall be presumed, for purposes of a lay-off, to be on probation and/or in temporary or provisional service. Quality of service shall be expressed by a value of from one to one hundred.
(4) Employees who are laid off shall be placed at the top of appropriate eligible lists and shall be given first consideration for appointments to vacancies for which they are qualified that may occur during the life of such eligible list.
(d) Retirement. All employees of the City subject to the provisions of the State Public Employee's Retirement System shall comply with the applicable provisions of State Law in obtaining retirement status and shall follow the provisions of this section under "Resignation" in order to attain retirement "in good standing". An employee retired in good standing shall be entitled to payment for sick leave as outlined under Chapter 153.
(Ord. 723. Passed 6-25-85.)