All officers and employees in the classified service of the
Town, as described in Section 1202 below, shall be appointed on the
basis of merit and in conformity with recognized principles of public
personnel administration.
The classified service shall include appointees to all positions
now or hereafter created, except the following: Elective officers
and persons appointed to fill vacancies in elective offices; members
of boards and commissions and other officers appointed by the Board
of Selectmen; employees of the Board of Education; members of the
Parking Commission; persons employed in a professional capacity to
make a temporary and special inquiry, study or investigation; the
judges, clerks and other personnel of the Probate Court; and persons
employed for a temporary period not exceeding three (3) months. It
shall be the duty of the Manager to cause to be prepared a statement
of the duties and responsibilities of each position in the classified
service and of the minimum qualifications for appointment to such
positions. These statements shall comprise the classification plan
of the Town, which shall become effective upon approval by resolution
of the Board of Selectmen and which may be amended upon recommendation
of the Manager, by resolution of the Board of Selectmen. New or additional
positions in the classified service may be created and changes in
the duties and responsibilities of existing positions may be made
by resolution of the Board of Selectmen upon the recommendation of
the Manager. The Manager shall also cause to have prepared a set of
personnel rules which shall provide, among other things, for the method
of holding competitive examinations, administration of the classification
plan, probationary periods of employment, hours of work, vacations,
sick leaves and other leaves of absence, removals, and other such
rules as may be necessary to provide an adequate and systematic procedure
for the handling of the personnel affairs of the town. Such rules
and any amendments thereto shall become effective upon being filed
by the Manager, with the Town Clerk. Copies of such rules and any
amendments thereto shall be distributed to all members of the classified
service.
No person holding a position in the classified services of the
Town shall be a candidate for elective municipal office in the Town
of Winchester.
The Board of Selectmen may provide by ordinance a system of
retirement allowances for the Town's regular full-time paid employees
and for contributions by employees and the Town to a fund from which
such allowance shall be paid. The Town may operate its own retirement
plan and in connection therewith may retain investment and actuarial
assistance and may enter into an agency or trust agreement with any
state bank and trust company or with any national banking association
located in the State of Connecticut providing for the care, custody,
and investment supervision of the retirement fund, and the charges
therefor shall be paid from such fund; or the Town may enter into
a contract with any insurance company authorized to do business in
this State for the purpose of insuring the whole or any part of its
retirement plan, may elect to participate in the Connecticut Municipal
Employee's Retirement Fund in the manner provided in the General
Statutes, or may elect to participate in the Old Age and Survivor
Insurance System under Title II of the Federal Social Security Act
in accordance with the provisions of Part II of Chapter 113 of the
1958 revisions, as amended, or may choose any combination thereof.
The Board of Selectmen may by ordinance provide for compulsory retirement
at an age to be determined.