Editor's Note: This article head originally read as follows: "Officers, Deputies and Employees and Their Compensation."
The officers of the City of Glendale shall be five members of the council, a city assessor, a city tax collector, a city manager, a director of administrative services, a city clerk, a city treasurer, a city attorney, a director of public works, a city engineer, a maintenance services administrator, a building official, a chief of police and a fire chief. The council may also provide by ordinance for additional offices and for the duties thereof, and for additional duties of offices herein provided for, but in no such manner as to encroach upon the duties of any officer as provided for by this Charter. The council may also provide by ordinance for such subordinate officers, assistants, deputies, clerks, and employees in the several offices and departments as they deem necessary. The members of the council, the city treasurer and the city clerk shall be elected from the city at large, as provided in this Charter. All other officers, assistants, deputies, clerks and employees shall be appointed as provided in this Charter, or as the council may provide by ordinance in case no provision for their appointment is herein made, and shall hold their respective offices or positions at the pleasure of the appointing power. Where the appointment of any of said officers, assistants, deputies, clerks or employees is vested in the council or any commission, such appointment and any removal must be made by a three-fifths (3/5) vote of the members of the appointing power. (1921; 1947; 1953; 1957.)
(Res. No. 18-10 § 1, 2018; Res. No. 04-238 § 1, 2004)
All elective officers of the city shall be subject to recall as provided in this Charter.
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For Charter provision as to adoption of state law relative to recall, see Charter, Art. XVIII, § 1.
(a) 
Compensation and increase in compensation of council members. Compensation for council members is hereby set, and from time to time shall be changed, in accordance with the schedule and procedure for adjustment applicable to the City of Glendale set forth in the provisions of the Government Code relating to salaries of council members in general law cities. The compensation of council members may also be increased during the terms of their respective offices by vote of the electors.
(b) 
Compensation and increase in compensation of city clerk and city treasurer. When percentage increases are granted to other officers and employees generally, the council may grant comparable percentage increases to the city clerk and the city treasurer. The compensation of the city clerk and city treasurer may also be increased during the terms of their respective offices by vote of the electors. (1921; 1947; 1957; 1982.)
(Res. No. 04-238 § 1, 2004)
The city manager shall appoint and remove, subject to the civil service provisions of this Charter, all department heads of the city, except as otherwise provided by this Charter, such appointments and removals to be subject to the approval of the council. Department heads shall appoint and remove, subject to the civil service provisions of this Charter, all of their subordinate officers, assistants, deputies, clerks, and employees, except as otherwise provided by this Charter, such appointments and removals to be subject to the approval of the city manager. (1953.)
(Res. No. 04-238 § 1, 2004)
Whenever a ministerial power is granted or a ministerial duty is imposed upon a city officer by this Charter, such power may be exercised or such duty performed by an assistant, deputy or other authorized person unless this Charter expressly provides otherwise.
Delegation of a power or duty may be by expressed grant, written or oral; it may be implied by custom, practice, or when it is ordinary or necessary in the performance of another duty or responsibility so delegated. An officer may ratify any act which he has the power to delegate.
The council shall have the power to limit by ordinance the delegation of any power or responsibility under this section. (Charter Amendment No. 3, 1977.)