There is hereby established and adopted the classification plan
recommended by the director of firemen’s and policemen’s
civil service, which plan is on file in the director’s office,
as the official classification plan of all positions in the classified
service of the city. The class specifications set forth therein are
hereby declared to be the official statement of the duties, responsibilities
and requirements of each class. The city council, however, 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 article.
(Ordinance 894, sec. 2, adopted 1/13/1949; 1959 Code, sec. 8-22; 1983 Code, sec. 7-26)
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. 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.
(4)
The
minimum and desirable qualifications required of an incumbent for
the satisfactory performance of such duties and tasks and the exercise
of such responsibilities.
(Ordinance 894, sec. 3, adopted 1/13/1949; 1959 Code, sec. 8-23; 1983 Code, sec. 7-27)
The specifications for the various classes of positions are
hereby declared to have the following force and effect:
(1)
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 such others
are similar as to kind and quality.
(2)
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.
(3)
Titles,
as far as possible, are intended to be suggestive of the kind of work
performed by the incumbent of the positions and indicative of the
rank.
(4)
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.
(5)
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.
(6)
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 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.
(Ordinance 894, sec. 4, adopted 1/13/1949; 1959 Code, sec. 8-24; 1983 Code, sec. 7-28)
The director shall allocate each position in the classified
service to its appropriate class in the classification plan. Such
allocation shall be based on the duties and responsibilities of the
incumbents of such positions and shall be entered on the official
roster cards maintained by the firemen’s and policemen’s
civil service commission. The title of the class shall become the
title of the individual positions and shall be used in payrolls submitted
to the proper disbursing officer, and 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 communication of the commission and
of all budget and financial officers.
(Ordinance 894, sec. 5, adopted 1/13/1949; 1959 Code, sec. 8-25; 1983 Code, sec. 7-29)
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 specifications 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 or as set up. Upon the recommendation of
the commission, after a full investigation of the actual and proposed
duties, responsibilities and qualification requirements, the city
council may allocate or reallocate the position to its appropriate
class in accordance with the classification plan in effect. 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 this article, make recommendations to
the city council for the allocation of positions whenever the facts
are such to warrant such action.
(Ordinance 894, sec. 6, adopted 1/13/1949; 1959 Code, sec. 8-26; 1983 Code, sec. 7-30)
If any employee believes that his position has been improperly
allocated, he may protest by presenting his reason therefor, upon
such forms or documents as the director may prescribe. The claim shall
be investigated by the director and commission, then referred to the
city council for its decision, which shall be final.
(Ordinance 894, sec. 7, adopted 1/13/1949; 1959 Code, sec. 8-27; 1983 Code, sec. 7-31)
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, and the passing of a noncompetitive examination
given by the director and approval of the commission, continue in
the position. This shall not obtain in the event 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 regularly assigned work.
(Ordinance 894, sec. 8, adopted 1/13/1949; 1959 Code, sec. 8-28; 1983 Code, sec. 7-32)
The director shall, at least once every two (2) years, investigate
and report to the firemen’s and policemen’s civil service
commission and to the city council upon the appropriateness of the
class titles assigned to each position in the classified service.
Such investigation, either by the director or by any member of the
commission so designated, shall further determine whether any employees
in one class are performing duties regularly assigned to positions
in another related class.
(Ordinance 894, sec. 9, adopted 1/13/1949; 1959 Code, sec. 8-29; 1983 Code, sec. 7-33)
The number of positions in each classification shall be shown
by the annual budget of the city.
(Ordinance 894, sec. 10, adopted 1/13/1949; Ordinance 1572, sec. 2, adopted 6/10/1954; Ordinance 1712, sec. 1, adopted 4/26/1955; Ordinance 2376, sec. 1, adopted 12/19/1957; Ordinance 2436, sec. 2, adopted 3/27/1958; 1959 Code, sec. 8-30; 1983 Code, sec. 7-34)
