By resolution or ordinance, the city council shall establish the base pay for all positions within the classified service. All employees shall receive compensation according to the base pay established by the city council.
(Prior code § 2-399.40)
Once each year, between June 15th and June 30th, all department heads shall complete and submit a performance evaluation for each employee within his/her department.
All such evaluations shall be submitted to the personnel director for review by the city manager and the civil service commission.
Following review by the civil service commission, performance evaluations shall become part of the employee's permanent personnel file.
All performance evaluations shall be completed on forms approved by the director of personnel.
(Ord. 1315 § 4, 1984)
In addition to base pay, a merit raise of four percent may be granted by the city manager, subject to veto by the city council, to any employee who has rendered exceptional work performance to the city, as indicated by recent performance evaluations submitted in accordance with Section 2.48.020.
Each such raise shall be in effect for a three-year period.
(Ord. 1315 § 6, 1984)
All officers and employees whose continuous service commenced prior to October 23, 1974, whether or not they are in the classified service, shall be entitled to longevity pay as provided in this section.
A. 
Officers and employees shall be entitled to longevity pay after completing five years of service with the city on the following schedule: Employees in their sixth year shall receive one percent above base pay; in their seventh year, two percent above base pay; in their eighth year, three percent above base pay; in their ninth year, four percent above base pay; in their tenth year, five percent above base pay. "Base pay" is defined as the monthly pay step upon which an employee is paid at the date of computation of longevity pay.
B. 
All officers and employees who have completed seventeen years of service shall be entitled to ten percent of their base pay.
C. 
All officers and employees who have completed twenty-four years of service shall be entitled to fifteen percent of their base pay.
D. 
No employee eligible for and actually receiving educational achievement incentive pay shall simultaneously be eligible for longevity pay, except, however, employees of the police department paid under the public safety police employee salary resolution shall be eligible for intermediate (two and one-half percent) and advanced (two and one-half percent) post certificate educational achievement incentive pay in addition to longevity pay. All employees must elect, not later than July 1, 1978, longevity pay or educational incentive pay except employees paid under the public safety police salary resolution may make this election through and including November 6, 1982.
The provisions contained in this section for longevity pay shall not be cumulative. For example: Total longevity after seventeen years of service is ten percent, not fifteen percent; total longevity after twenty-four years is fifteen percent, not thirty-five percent. Longevity pay shall be in addition to all other compensation and shall be automatic without prior approval by the city council, city manager or department head.
(Prior code § 2-399.43; Ord. 1089 § 1, 1974; Ord. 1275 § 7, 1982)
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.48.040, effective August 1, 1981, no employee covered by the salary resolution for public safety fire employees shall be entitled to receive more than four hundred sixty dollars per month for longevity or educational incentive pay. Effective on and after August 1, 1983, employees covered by the salary resolution for public safety fire employees shall be increased by ninety percent of the increase of the cost of living for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers in the Los Angeles/Long Beach area as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistical Consumer Price Index (All Item Index) for the period May, 1981, to May, 1983, for longevity or educational incentive pay.
(Ord. 1250 § 4, 1981)
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.48.040, effective August 7, 1982, no employee covered by the salary resolution for public safety police employees shall be entitled to receive more than five hundred dollars per month for longevity pay or educational incentive pay. Effective July 1, 1983, said limit shall be increased to six hundred dollars per month. Public safety police employees receiving both educational incentive pay and longevity pay pursuant to Section 2.48.040D shall be subject to these aggregate limits herein.
(Ord. 1275 § 9, 1982)
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.48.040, no employee covered by the salary resolution for miscellaneous employees shall be entitled to longevity pay exceeding the following amounts:
A. 
For employees entitled to longevity pay of one percent to ten percent, two hundred dollars per month.
B. 
For employees entitled to longevity pay in excess of ten percent, two hundred fifty dollars per month.
(Ord. 1127 § 1, 1976)
Notwithstanding any of the provisions of Sections 2.48.041 through and including 2.48.044, any employee receiving longevity or educational incentive pay in excess of the specified limits contained in these sections, as of November 11, 1976, shall be entitled to continue to receive longevity or educational incentive pay at this amount, but shall not be entitled to receive any greater amounts of longevity or educational incentive pay during the term of his or her employment.
(Ord. 1127 § 1, 1976)
Part-time employees and employees on a call-as-needed basis shall not be entitled to merit raises but shall be entitled to the longevity pay provided in Section 2.48.040, if qualified thereunder.
(Prior code § 2-399.44; Ord. 1089 § 2, 1974)
Pay for volunteer firemen, secretarial service, sales tax collectors, expense accounts, and other miscellaneous compensation items shall be established by the city council by resolution or budget and shall not be affected by the provisions of Chapter 2.18 and Chapters 2.30 through 2.52.
(Prior code § 2-399.45)
All officers and employees of the city shall be paid for two-week intervals ending on a Friday, payment to be made on the following Friday at a biweekly rate as computed in Section 2.48.090.
On the Friday marking the end of each pay period, each department head shall submit to the finance officer a payroll duly certified and approved by the department head.
(Prior code § 2-399.46)
Payroll warrants drawn for payment of all officers and employees need not be audited by the city council prior to payment. Payrolls duly certified shall be presented to the city council for ratification and approval at the first or any regular meeting of the city council succeeding the delivery of payroll warrants.
(Prior code § 2-399.47)
The fractional pay for all officers and employees, except members of the fire department, employees on a call-as-needed basis, and employees for whom an hourly rate has been established by the city council, shall be determined as follows:
A. 
Yearly rate shall be twelve times the monthly salary.
B. 
Biweekly rate shall be one-twenty-sixth of the yearly salary.
C. 
Daily rate shall be one-tenth of the biweekly salary.
D. 
Hourly rate shall be one-eightieth of the biweekly salary.
(Prior code § 2-399.48)
All emergency work performed by officers and employees, and for which overtime is allowed, shall be prorated on an hourly basis established in Section 2.48.090 and compensated at a rate of one and one-half times the hourly rate established by Section 2.48.090, except when required to work on certain holidays as established in Section 2.46.070. All authorized overtime work performed by members of the police and fire departments, except constant manning system work and training, shall be compensated at a rate of one and one-half times the hourly rate established in Section 2.48.090. "Constant manning," as used in this section, is defined as a system for maintaining the designated minimum strength of divisions by utilizing off-duty qualified manpower who are available to fill vacancies within said divisions.
No department head, executive officer, or nonmember of the classified service shall be entitled to overtime pay unless approved by the city council.
It is the policy of the city council and of the classified service to avoid the necessity for overtime work whenever possible, and the city manager and department heads are directed to curtail overtime work. The city manager shall formulate policies and procedures for the accumulation of overtime and the arrangement of its payment in salary or compensating time off in accordance with the needs of the individual departments and the city.
(Ord. 1107 § 2, 1975)
Members of the police department holding classifications as motor sergeant and desk sergeant shall hereafter be classified as sergeants. Members of the police department holding classifications as motor officers shall hereafter be classified as police officers. All members of the police department who are required to operate motorcycles as part of their regular duties for a period not less than ten working days per month shall be entitled to additional compensation in the form of hazard pay. Said hazard pay shall be established by the city council in a resolution and duly adopted.
(Prior code § 2-399.50; Ord. 987 § 1, 1971; Ord. 1074 § 1, 1974)
Members of the classified service who act as substitute employees in a class receiving a higher rate of compensation shall be entitled to that rate of compensation allowed the higher position if serving in that substitute position for a period greater than five working days or forty hours, whichever is the greater, providing the city manager approves the temporary substitute appointment.
(Prior code § 2-399.51)
A member of the classified service shall not engage in any outside employment, activity or enterprise which is inconsistent, incompatible or in conflict with his duties as a city official or employee. Otherwise, a city employee may engage in other employment for compensation providing approval is first had by the department head and the city manager and does not:
A. 
Involve the use for private gain or advantage of city time, facilities, equipment and supplies; or the badge, uniform, prestige or influence of city employment or office;
B. 
Involve receipt or acceptance by the officer or employee of any money or other consideration from anyone other than the city for the performance of an act which the officer or employee, if in performing such action, would be required or expected to render in the regular course or hours as a part of his duties in the city service;
C. 
Involve the performance of an act in other than his capacity as a city official or employee which act may later be subject directly or indirectly to the control, inspection, review, audit or enforcement by such officer or employee or the department by which he is employed.
If the officer's or employee's performance in the city service becomes unsatisfactory, the department head shall order a cessation of outside employment.
(Prior code § 2-399.52)