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RESOLUTION 72-10~AMENDING SECTIONS 3.2 THROUGH 3.10 TO RESOLUTION NO. 58-281 WHEREAS, on November 3, 1958, the City Council passed and adopted Resolution No. 58-281 revising and re-establishing the Basic Compensation Plan for employees of the City of Santa Ana; and WHEREAS, on October 19, 1964, the City Council passed and adopted Resolution No. 64-152 establishing a special salary rate for the designation of Senior Police Officer and establishing the criteria for such designation; and WHEREAS, on October 5, 1970, the City Council passed and adopted Resolution No. 70-98 which expanded the "Career Development Program' with emphasis on the enhancement of assignment to uniformed patrol responsibilities, and set forth additional special salary designations and the criteria therefor; and Wq{EREAS, as a result of recent "meet and confer" sessions a Memorandum of Understanding was developed in which agreement was reached between the City and the Santa Ana Police Benevolent Association regarding further expansion of the Police Career Development Program; and WHEREAS, it is now an efficient practice to consolidate and clarify the several provisions related to the Police Career Development Program; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that this Resolution shall be known as the Police Career Development Program Resolution, and such program shall be based upon the information hereinafter set forth in amended sections of Resolution No. 58-281: SECTION 3.2: Any member of the Police Department designated as a Senior Police Officer as of October 1, 1970 shall continue in such designation until such time as he shall be removed therefrom by action of the Police Chief. No further designations of Police personnel shall be made to Senior Police Officer as established by Resolution No. 64-152 amending Resolution No. 58-281. SECTION 3.3: For the purposes of establishing criteria for the designa- tion of special C.S.I. (Crime Scene Investigator) and/or F.T.O. (Field Training Officer), courses of training in these specialties shall be the courses developed and administered by the Santa Ana Police Department or such alternative courses as designated for such purpose by the Police Chief. SECTION 3.4: For the purposes of establishing criteria for the Career Development Program designations as set out below, the definition of units (or points) shall be as follows: a. Educational Units. One "semester" unit in an academic course of instruction apProved by the Police Chief and in an accredited college or university shall equal one educational unit. One "quarter" unit achieved in an educational institution as above shall equal two-thirds of an educational unit. "Trimester" units or other standards of measurement used as a basis in awarding scholastic credits will be accorded the same evaluation and weight as provided by the respective accredited college or university. b. Training U~its. Twenty (20) classroom hours or its equivalent of approved police training shall equal one unit. Regular, periodic on-the-job training programs shall not be considered as fulfilling this requirement. Neither shall the special training set out for C.S.I. or F.T.O. officers be given credit for the award of training units, nor shall basic introductory training or similar training given during a probationary period as Patrolman be credited as training units. (1) When college credit is awarded for special training in Police work, such units of credit may be counted for either training units or education units as the officer may select.