All appointments and promotions of City employees shall be made solely on the basis of merit and fitness demonstrated by examination or other evidence of competence.
The administrative assistant shall serve as personnel director and shall administer the personnel system of the City.
There shall be a personnel commission as stated in Section 6.06 of this Charter.
The personnel director shall prepare personnel rules which shall in no way be in conflict with other provisions set forth in this Charter. He shall refer such proposed rules to the personnel commission which shall report to the Mayor its recommendations thereon. When approved by the Mayor the rules shall be proposed to the Council, and the Council shall, by ordinance, adopt them with or without amendment. Such rules shall be proposed to the Council no later than November first (1st), 1967. These rules shall provide for:
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Classification of all City positions, based on duties, authority and responsibility of each position, with adequate provisions for reclassification of any position whenever warranted by changed circumstances.
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Methods for determining the merit and fitness of candidates for appointments or for promotions.
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A pay plan for all City positions.
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Attendance regulations, hours of work, and provisions for vacations and sick leave.
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The policies and procedures regulating the reduction in force and removal of employees.
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Policies regarding in-service training programs.
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Grievance procedures, including procedures for the hearing of grievances by the personnel commission, which may render advisory opinions based on its findings to the Mayor with a copy to the aggrieved employee.
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The policies and procedures governing persons holding provisional appointments.
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Other practices and procedures necessary to the administration of the City personnel system.
No person seeking employment by the City or promotion in employment shall either directly or indirectly give, render, or pay any money, service or other thing of value to any person for or on account of or in connection with his test, appointment, proposed appointment, promotion, or proposed promotion.
No employee of the City other than elected officials shall continue in such employment after becoming a candidate for any public office.
The provisions of this Section may be enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction, and upon conviction of violating or conspiring to violate the provisions hereof, a person shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00). The conviction of any employee of such offense shall operate automatically to terminate his service. Any employee so removed shall not be reinstated into City service.