This Part may be cited and referred to as the Personnel Ordinance of the City of Lakewood.
In order to establish an equitable and uniform procedure for dealing with personnel matters; to attract to municipal service the best, 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 the qualified employees, the following personnel system is hereby adopted.
[Amended by Ord. 76-1; Ord. 2000-6]
The personnel provisions, rules and regulations of this part shall be administered by the City Manager under the direction and control of the City Council.
[Amended by Ord. 76-1]
Except as otherwise specifically provided, the provisions of this Part shall apply to all officers, positions and employees in the service of the City, except:
A.
Elective Officers.
B.
Members of appointive Boards, Commissions and Committees.
C.
The City Manager and City Attorney.
[Amended by Ord. 2000-6]
D.
Persons engaged under contract to supply expert, professional, technical or other services.
E.
Volunteer personnel.
F.
Emergency employees who are hired to meet the immediate requirements of any emergency condition, including extraordinary disasters, such as fire, flood or earthquake threatening life or property.
G.
Part-time employees who are employed less than full time, hereby defined as an employee who is expected to or does work on an hourly basis whose employment is authorized by departmental budgets, in accordance with temporary, seasonal or as needed basis.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section, and unless otherwise provided by contract or agreement, the provisions of this Part and of any personnel rules and regulations relating to attendance, leaves, assignment and use of City property shall apply to the City Administrator and City Attorney.
There is hereby created a Personnel Appeals Board to consist of the five members of the City Council. As such, it shall have all of the powers subject to all of the duties and restrictions imposed upon the legislative body and shall have the power of subpoena pursuant to Section 37104, et seq. of the Government Code. The City Clerk, or authorized Deputy, shall serve as the Secretary of the Personnel Appeals Board, shall attend all meetings, maintain a record of the proceedings, issue subpoenas, and administer oath to witnesses. The Mayor, or such other member of the City Council as shall be selected by a majority of the Personnel Appeals Board shall serve as the Chairman of the Personnel Board.
The Personnel Appeals Board shall determine the order of business for the conduct of its meetings and shall meet on call of the Chairman or a majority of the members of the Board. A majority of the members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Except as otherwise adopted by the Board, the rules and regulations adopted by the City Council for the transaction of its business shall apply to all meetings of the Board. The Board shall hear appeals submitted by any person in the classified service relative to any disciplinary action, dismissal, demotion, charge or discrimination, or alleged violation of this Part, and shall certify its findings and recommendations. The findings and determination of the Board shall be final.
Personnel rules and regulations, compensation and classification plans shall be adopted by Resolution of the City Council after notice of such proposed action has been publicly posted in the City Hall at least five days prior to City Council consideration. The rules shall establish regulations governing the personnel system including, but not necessarily limited thereby, the following:
A.
Preparation, installation, revision and maintenance of a position classification plan covering all positions in the competitive service, including employment standards and qualifications from each class.
B.
Preparation, revision and administration of a plan of compensation, directly correlated with the position classification plan, providing a rate or range of pay for each class.
C.
Public announcement of all examinations and acceptance of applications for employment.
D.
Preparation and conduct of examinations and the establishment and use of resulting lists containing names of person eligible for employment.
E.
Evaluation of employees during the probationary period.
F.
Transfer, promotion, demotion, reinstatement, disciplinary action and lay-off of employees in the classified service.
G.
Separation of employees from the City service.
H.
Standardization of hours of work, attendance and leave regulations, working conditions and the development of employee morale, welfare and training.
I.
The establishment of adequate personnel records.
J.
The establishment of grievance and appeal procedures.
Appointments to vacant positions in the classified service shall be made in accordance with the personnel rules. Appointments and promotions shall be based on merit and fitness, to be ascertained so far as practicable by competitive examination. Examination may be used and conducted to aid in the selection of qualified employees and shall consist of selection techniques which will test fairly the qualification of candidates, such as achievement and aptitude tests, written tests, personal interview, performance tests, physical agility tests, evaluation of daily work performance, work samples, or any combination of these or other tests that are job related. Physical and mental tests may be given as part of any examination. The probationary period shall be considered an extension of the examination process.
All regular appointments, including promotional appointments, shall be for a probationary period of not less than six months. During the probationary period, the employee may be terminated, demoted or transferred at any time without the right of appeal or hearing.
Any person holding a position included in the classified service who on the effective date of the Ordinance enacting this Part shall have served continuously in such position, or in some other position in the classified service for a period equal to the probationary period prescribed in the rules for his class, shall assume regular status, in the classified service in the position held on such effective date without qualifying examinations and shall thereafter be subject in all respects to the provisions of this Part and the personnel rules and regulations. All other persons holding positions in the classified service shall be regarded as probationers who are serving out the balance of their probationary period as prescribed in the rules before obtaining regular status. The probationary period shall be computed from the date of appointment or employment.
[Amended by Ord. 76-1; Ord. 2000-6]
The City Manager shall consider and make recommendation 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.
No City officer or employee shall enter into the duties of his office until he has taken the oath required by law as well as a constitutional oath of office and has filed the same with the City Clerk.
The term officers and employees shall include all officers and employees of the City whose compensation for such employment is wholly paid by said City and who are regularly employed by the City on a full-time basis, excluding therefrom contractual employees, or employees of contractual agents, elective officers, except where special provision is otherwise made for them in this Part, and part-time employees except where other provision is especially made for them in this Part, or persons employed temporarily, except for those instances of special provision made for them herein.
All City officers and employees including the City Attorney, before entering upon the duties of their office shall execute a bond conforming to the provisions of the laws of the State of California in the penal sum as recommended by the City Attorney, provided, however, that the amount of the bond shall not be less than:
City Treasurer, or deputy | $50,000 |
All other officers and employees | $10,000 |
In accordance with the provisions of Section 36519 and 1481 of the Government Code, the legislative body hereby determines it expedient and necessary to require all City officers and employees, including the City Attorney, to execute a bond to the City of Lakewood in the aforementioned amounts and in conformity with the provisions of Chapter 3, Division 4, Title 1 of the Government Code, which said bond shall be in the sum of $10,000 and shall be a master bond covering all City officers and employees.