The intent and purpose of this chapter is to establish an equitable and uniform procedure for dealing with personnel matters, to attract to municipal service the best and most competent persons available, to assure that appointments and promotions of employees will be based on merit and fitness, and to provide a reasonable degree of security for qualified employees, the following system is adopted.
(Ord. 1763 § 2, 2002)
The provisions of this chapter, the position classification and compensation resolution and personnel rules shall apply to all offices, employments and positions in the city service except the following:
(1) 
Elected officials;
(2) 
Members of appointive boards, commissions, and committees;
(3) 
City manager;
(4) 
City attorney;
(5) 
Departments heads, including city clerk and city treasurer, appointed after November 1, 2002;
(6) 
Employees specifically designated as contract employees in the city's classification plan;
(7) 
Limited service (part-time) personnel;
(8) 
Persons engaged under contract to supply expert, professional or technical services for a definite period of time;
(9) 
Volunteer personnel who receive no regular compensation from the city.
(Ord. 1763 § 2, 2002)
The city manager shall be the personnel officer. The city manager may delegate any of the powers and duties conferred upon him or her as personnel officer under this chapter to any other officer or employee as qualified by education and/or experience to perform such duties. The personnel officer, or his or her designee, shall administer the affirmative action plan, position classification and compensation resolution, employer-employee relations resolution, personnel rules, and all other city personnel programs.
(Ord. 1763 § 2, 2002)
The personnel officer shall:
(1) 
Administer all the provisions of this chapter and of the personnel rules, regulations, policies and procedures;
(2) 
Prepare and recommend to the city council for adoption personnel rules, regulations, policies and procedures and revisions/amendments to such rules, regulations, policies and procedures. Personnel rules shall be adopted by resolution of city council;
(3) 
Prepare, or cause to be prepared, a position classification and salary plan governing all positions in the classified service and revisions/amendments thereto. The classifications and salary plan and any revisions thereto shall not be effective until approved by resolution of the city council;
(4) 
Serve as municipal employee relations officer to meet and confer in good faith as required by Section 3500 et seq., California Government Code and to perform related employee relations tasks.
(Ord. 1763 § 2, 2002)
Rules, regulations, policies and procedures governing the personnel system shall be adopted by resolution of the city council. Such rules, regulations, policies and procedures shall include, but are not limited to:
(1) 
Preparation, installation, revision and maintenance of a position classification plan governing all positions in the competitive service, including employment standards and qualifications for each class;
(2) 
Preparation, revision and administration of a compensation plan directly correlated with the position classification plan, providing a rate or range of pay for each class;
(3) 
The public announcement of vacancies and examinations and the acceptance of applications for employment;
(4) 
Preparation and conduct of examinations and the establishment and use of resulting employment lists containing the names of persons eligible for appointment;
(5) 
Certification and appointment of persons from employment lists, and the making of provisional and emergency appointments;
(6) 
Transfer, promotion, demotion, reinstatement, disciplinary action and layoff of employees in the competitive service;
(7) 
Separation of employees from city service;
(8) 
Standardization of hours of work, attendance and leave regulations, working conditions, and the development of employee morale, welfare and training;
(9) 
The maintenance and use of necessary records and forms.
(Ord. 1763 § 2, 2002)
The appointing authority shall be the city council in the case of appointments to the positions of city manager and city attorney and shall be the city manager or designee for all other positions, including that of city clerk and city treasurer. Appointment of department heads, including the city clerk and city treasurer, shall be subject to ratification by the city council.
The city manager is hereby authorized to enter into an employment contract defining the wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment with department heads appointed and with those employees specifically designated as contract employees in the city's classification plan as long as those terms' and/or conditions' parameters are consistent with city council-adopted salary and benefit schedules. Any terms and/or conditions not contained within an already adopted salary and benefit schedule shall require city council approval at a public meeting.
(Ord. 1763 § 2, 2002; Ord. 1941 § 2, 2010)
The city manager may consider and make recommendations to the city council regarding the extent to which the city should contract for the performance of technical services in connection with the establishment or operation of the personnel system. The city council may authorize the city manager to contract with any qualified person or agency for the performance of all or any of the following responsibilities and duties imposed by this chapter:
(1) 
The preparation of personnel rules, regulations, policies and procedures and subsequent revisions and amendments thereto;
(2) 
The preparation of a position classification plan, and subsequent revisions and amendments thereto;
(3) 
The preparation of a plan of compensation, and subsequent revisions and amendments thereto;
(4) 
The preparation, conduct and grading of competitive tests;
(5) 
Special and technical services of advisory or informational character on matters relating to personnel information;
(6) 
Special and technical services of advisory or informational character on matters relating to personnel information, legal consultation concerning personnel matters, personnel litigation or employee relations.
(Ord. 1763 § 2, 2002)
Except as otherwise hereinafter provided, no person convicted of a felony or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude shall be eligible for employment by the city; provided, however, that the appointing authority may disregard such conviction if it finds and determines that mitigating circumstances exist. Mitigating circumstances include, but are not limited to, evidence of rehabilitation, length of time elapsed since conviction, the age of the person at the time of conviction or the fact that the classification applied for is unrelated to such conviction.
The city manager, personnel director, chief of police, heads of other city departments, city attorney and each appointing authority of the city are hereby authorized to have access to the "State Summary Criminal History Information" as provided for in Section 11105, California Penal Code.
(Ord. 1763 § 2, 2002)
The political activities of city employees shall conform to applicable provisions of state law including Section 3201 et seq., California Government Code and to any local provision adopted pursuant to state law.
(Ord. 1763 § 2, 2002)
Whenever the provisions of this chapter are in conflict with any other provisions of this code, this chapter shall prevail.
(Ord. 1763 § 2, 2002)