The personnel system provided in this Title shall apply to all offices and positions, except that it shall not apply to the following offices and positions unless this Title expressly and specifically makes any particular provision(s) applicable to such otherwise exempted offices and positions:
(a) 
Elected officers;
(b) 
All City Officers;
(c) 
The City Manager;
(d) 
The City Attorney and any Assistant or Deputy City Attorneys;
(e) 
Members of appointive boards, commissions and committees;
(f) 
All employees designated as "management," including:
(1) 
Director of Public Safety Services,
(2) 
Police Lieutenant,
(3) 
Finance Director/Assistant to the City Manager,
(4) 
Accounting Supervisor,
(5) 
Administrative Analyst,
(6) 
Parks and Recreation Director,
(7) 
Public Works Administrator,
(8) 
Building Official,
(9) 
City Clerk/Treasurer,
(10) 
Community Development Director/City Engineer,
(11) 
Planning Director;
(g) 
Persons engaged under contract to supply expert, professional, technical or any other services.
(h) 
Volunteer personnel;
(i) 
Emergency employees who are hired to meet the immediate requirements of an emergency condition, such as extraordinary fire, flood or earthquake, which threaten life or property;
(j) 
Full-time temporary and part-time temporary employees;
(k) 
Part-time employees;
(l) 
Employees whose employment has not been finalized through completion of the probationary period;
(m) 
Any position created either directly or indirectly as a result of the city's receipt of State or Federal program funds, and specifically identified by the City upon creation of the position that is exempt from the personnel system under this provision. ((b) amended by Initiative March 15, 1988; (b) of this section shall not be repealed or amended except by a future vote of the people. Elections Code § 4013; Ord. 225 Div. 1 (part), 1986)
(a) 
The City Manager, the City Attorney and members of appointed boards serve at the pleasure of the City Council.
(b) 
Notwithstanding Section 1-1.09(j) of this Code, all employment agreements, in existence as of the effective date of the ordinance from which this subsection derives, with officers over whom the City Manager is to have the power of appointment and removal shall remain in force but shall be amended to conform with Sections 2-3.104(c) and 12-1.501(b), thereby ensuring that the City Manager may remove employees who are covered under said employment agreements. ((b) amended by Initiative March 15, 1988; (b) of this section shall not be repealed or amended except by a future vote of the people. Elections Code § 4013; Ord. 225 Div. 1 (part), 1986)
Any person holding a position included in the personnel system (nonexempt positions) who, on the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, shall have served continuously in this position, or in some other position in the personnel system, for a period equal to the probationary period prescribed in the rules for his or her designation and whose probationary status has not been otherwise extended by the City Manager, shall assume regular status in the personnel system in the position held on such effective date, and shall thereafter be subject in all respects to the provisions of this Chapter and the personnel rules.
Upon the effective date of the ordinance codified in this Chapter, all existing individual employment contracts shall be superseded and voided.
Any other persons holding positions in the personnel system shall be regarded as probationers who are serving out the balance of their probationary periods as prescribed in the rules before obtaining regular status. The probationary period shall be computed from the date of appointment or employment. , 1986)
(Ord. 225 Div. 1 (part)