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Designation of Authority in Absence of Appointed Officials; Salary and Benefits for Acting <br />City Manager <br />May 7, 2024 <br />Page 2 <br />4 <br />2 <br />5 <br />2 <br />The proposed Resolution identifies those City officers and executives who are <br />authorized to serve as the Acting City Manager in the absence of a designation by the <br />current City Manager or the City Council. The Santa Ana City Charter provides that the <br />City Manager may designate a person to act in his or her position for a temporary period <br />and the City Council has authority to appoint an Acting City Manager. The succession <br />identified in the proposed Resolution will only apply when the City Manager has not <br />made an appointment or the City Manager has left the service of the City and the City <br />Council has not appointed an Acting or Interim City Manager. The succession remains <br />the same as that set forth in Resolution No. 2017-016 and is as follows: <br />(1) Assistant City Manager; <br />(2) Deputy City Manager; <br />(3) Chief of Police; <br />(4) Executive Director of Finance and Management Services; and <br />(5) Executive Director of Human Resources. <br />As for compensation and benefits for an Acting City Manager, the proposed Resolution <br />provides that any person serving more than 30 days in an acting capacity, without a <br />contract or specific approval of the City Manager, shall receive the pay and benefits <br />provided to the Executive Management official with the highest base salary plus one <br />($1) dollar. The Acting City Manager will not, however, receive any pay or benefits that <br />are specific to public safety officers. The pay and benefits are specified to be <br />retroactive to the 31st day of service. <br />Currently, there is no resolution authorizing any City employee to act as the City <br />Attorney or the City Clerk in the absence of a designation by the respective Appointed <br />Official or the City Council. The proposed Resolution identifies those City employees in <br />the City Attorney’s Office and also in the City Clerk’s Office who would be authorized to <br />serve as the Acting City Attorney or Acting City Clerk in the respective absence of the <br />City Attorney and City Clerk. The succession identified in the proposed Resolution <br />would apply when the City Attorney or City Clerk has not made an Acting appointment <br />or the City Attorney or City Clerk have left the service of the City and the City Council <br />has not appointed an Acting or Interim City Attorney or City Clerk. The succession <br />proposed for the City Attorney is: (1) Chief Assistant City Attorney; (2) Senior Assistant <br />City Attorney. The succession proposed for the City Clerk is the Assistant City Clerk. <br />The proposed Resolution specifies that, to the extent there is more than one City officer <br />or employee with the same title, the designated officer or employee would be the last <br />person designated as Acting by the Appointed Official and if no officer or employee <br />had been designated as Acting by the Appointed Official, the designation would go to <br />the officer or employee that had their current title for the longest amount of time.