Item 36 - Proposed Voter Ballot Measure(s) for the November 8, 2022 General Municipal Election to Amend the City Charter

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Sec. 1002. - Civil service and excepted service. The civil service system of the City shall cover all employees of the City not excepted by this section. (a) The excepted service shall comprise the following offices and positions: (1) The individual offices held by all elective officers; (2) The City Manager and the City Manager’s his assistants, if any; (3) The City Attorney and the City Attorney’s his legal assistants, if any; (4) The Clerk of the Council; (5) The director of finance; (6) The director of personnel, if any; (57) The head of each department of the City as specified by ordinance or resolution not otherwise specified herein, and the chief administrative officer of the community redevelopment agency of the City of Santa Ana, and of the housing authority of the City of Santa Ana, but not including the police chief or the fire chief; (68) One private secretary to the City Manager; (79) All members of boards and commissions; (810) Positions occupied by persons employed to render professional, scientific, technical, or expert service of an occasional and exceptional nature; (911) Positions in any class or grade created for a special or temporary purpose;, and which are to exist for a period of not longer than ninety (90) days; (12) Positions of any class or grade exempted from the civil service for a maximum of six (6) months in any calendar year provided that the personnel board upon application of the City Manager and after public notice and hearings recommends to the City Council such exemption and the City Council grants such exemption by motion adopted by two-thirds ( 2/3) of its members. Any such exemption shall not affect the tenure of any person whose appointment has become final under civil service; (103) Part-time positions or employments; requiring less than twenty (20) regular hours of employment per week; (14) School crossing guards; (115) All positions occupied by persons employed to replace employees ordered to active duty, enlisted, or drafted for military service during a national emergency or when this country has declared war and until the expiration of the time when such replaced employee could demand his former position of employment under federal or state statutes. (b) The civil service shall comprise all positions not specifically included by this section in the excepted service. (c) In the event an officer or employee of the City holding a position in the civil service is appointed to a position in the excepted service and should subsequently be removed therefrom within twelve (12) months of the employee’s appointment to the excepted service, the employee shall revert to the employee’s his former position in the civil service without loss of any rights or privileges and upon the same terms and conditions as if the employee had remained in said position continuously. Formatted: Normal