(a) 
All of the premises and findings of fact accompanying Ordinance 478 are found to be true and correct, are adopted by the city council, and are incorporated into the body of this section as if copied in their entirety.
(b) 
Employment with the city shall be at will.
(c) 
Only the city council, acting as a body, may enter into a contract with an employee of the city which modifies the employee’s at-will employment; and, in any such event, no such contract or agreement shall ever be effective save and except it be first reduced to writing, approved by majority vote of the city council, and executed by the mayor and the employee.
(d) 
The city manager shall require each employee of the city to sign an acknowledgement that the employee understands that:
(1) 
The employee’s employment is at will;
(2) 
The employment can be terminated by the city at any time, for any reason, with or without notice, regardless of any specific policies or procedures in the employee handbook;
(3) 
No representative or agent of the city has the authority to assure or guarantee the employee’s employment; and
(4) 
The employee handbook is not a contract.
(e) 
Notwithstanding the failure of any employee to sign the acknowledgement provided for in subsection (d), the employee is nevertheless on notice of this section and that his or her employment is at will.
(1999 Code, sec. 32.01)