There shall be a Department of Personnel which
shall administer the classification and compensation system hereinafter
described.
There shall be a Director of Personnel who shall
be responsible for the proper administration of the Department of
Personnel and the classification and compensation system hereinafter
described. Said Director shall be appointed by the City Manager. The
Director of Personnel shall serve at the pleasure of the City Manager.
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There shall be a classified service of the City
pursuant to § 7-194 of the Connecticut General Statutes,
as amended. The classified service shall include all offices and positions
in the municipal service of the City of Meriden except the following
offices and positions herein excepted: all elected officials; all
department heads; members of all appointed boards and commissions;
the Corporation Counsel; those specifically exempted by state statute;
no less than one assistant and one secretary to the City Manager;
no less than one assistant to the City Clerk; no less than one assistant
to the City Council; and all those who serve at the pleasure of the
City Manager or City Council, or both, as provided in this Charter.
The number of such unclassified positions in each category shall be
determined by majority vote of the City Council.
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Notwithstanding any contrary provision of the
previous City Charter or of the classified system in existence upon
the effective date of this Charter, all department heads and all other
officers provided in this Charter to serve at the pleasure of the
City Manager or City Council, or both, shall be considered to serve
without tenure after the effective date of this Charter, and the positions
of department heads and other officers shall be considered to be new
offices created by virtue of the adoption of this Charter, and any
previous tenure or classified status of such department heads or other
officers is hereby expressly terminated and revoked.
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There is hereby created a compensation system
which shall include a schedule of salary ranges consisting of minimum
and maximum rates of pay and intermediate steps for all classes of
positions included in the classification plan and the assignment of
classes to salary ranges as such salary ranges may be hereinafter
determined by the City Council.
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Editor's Note: Former § C9-5, pertaining
to the Personnel Review Board, was repealed 11-3-1992.
1.
The Municipal Employees' Pension Plan, the Police
Department Pension Plan and the Fire Department Pension Plan shall
continue to exist with respect to those persons presently pensioned
thereunder, covered thereby or subject to the provisions thereof on
and after the adoption and effective date of this Charter in the same
manner as said pension systems exist under the various special acts
of the Legislature by which the same were established.
2.
On or after the effective date of the Charter the
City Council shall by ordinance create and establish an integrated
municipal pension plan and shall create a Municipal Pension Board
to administer the same. Said pension plan shall cover and apply to
all employees of the City of Meriden, including the Police and Fire
Departments and the Board of Education (except Board of Education
employees who belong or were eligible to belong to the State Teachers'
Retirement Association). Said integrated municipal pension plan shall
apply only to those employees whose employment with the City of Meriden
shall commence on or after the effective date of this Charter and
to those other employees who may, pursuant to appropriate provision
of any ordinance of the City Council which may be adopted, be given
the option of being covered thereunder.
3.
Nothing herein shall be construed as in any way altering
or affecting the pension rights of any employees of any department
of the City of Meriden whose employment with the City commenced prior
to the effective date of this Charter. The provisions of the previous
Charter of the City of Meriden and of any special act pertaining to
the pension rights of any employee of the City of Meriden whose employment
commenced prior to the effective date of this Charter are hereby expressly
reaffirmed.
4.
Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent amendments
to the municipal pension plan as the result of any contract or agreement
duly entered into between the City of Meriden and any validly constituted
union or other municipal employee bargaining unit.
