98-018 - Amend Resolution Nos. 82-110, 91-066, 96-095

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115 RESOLUTION NO. 98-018 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA TO AMEND RESOLUTION NOS. 82-110, 91-066 AND 96-095 TO EFFECT CERTAIN CHANGES TO THE CITY'S BASIC CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION PLAI~. WHEREAS, Section 1004, Article X of the City Charter of the City of Santa Ana requires the City Manager to prepare, install and maintain a position classification and pay plan subject to civil service rules and regulations and the approval of the City Council; and WHEREAS, on August 2, 1982, the City Council passed and adopted Resolution No. 82-110 revising and re-establishing the Basic Classification Plan for Officers and Employees of the City of Santa Aha; and on July 1, 1991, the City Council passed and adopted Resolution No.91-067 amending said Basic Classification and Compensation Plan to designate certain classes of employment as Unaffiliated Confidential (UC) and to set forth certain levels of salaries and benefits for these classes; and WHEREAS, on July 1, 1991, the City Council passed and adopted Resolution No. 91-066, re-establishing the Basic Compensation Plan for classes of employment designated as unrepresented Executive Management (EM) and Middle Management (MM); and on November 18, 1996, the City Council passed and adopted Resolution No. 96-095, establishing the Basic Classification and Compensation Plan for unrepresented classes of employment designated as Administrative Management (AM); and WHEREAS, to ensure the City's compliance with the new federal and state minimum wage laws, pay rates for three unaffiliated part- time titles and three represented part-time titles need to be increased; and WHEREAS, to lessen the impacts on unrepresented employees of organizational restructuring, it is desired to incorporate a "Z- rating" provision into the City's Basic Classification and Compensation Plans for unrepresented executive, middle and administrative management and unaffiliated confidential employees, which will allow the City Manager to set a special pay rate, for a specified transition time period, for unrepresented employees who accept a voluntary demotion or reclassification to a lower level class; and WHEREAS, with the adoption of the annual budget for Fiscal Year 1998-99, the City Council authorized certain organizational, staffing, and compensation changes which affect a number of class titles in the City's Basic Classification and Compensation Plan; and WHEREAS, it is now desired to amend Council Resolution Nos. 82-110, 91-066 and 96-095 to effect these changes.