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Mr. Vogl briefly described some of the proposed amendments to Chapter X as follows: Section 1002 - deals with job security and the right of the Council to be able to hire and fire personnel at will. Section 1004 - relating to job classification and compensation, has come before Council before; and it is the recommendation of the Personnel Board to relieve the Council of the day to day duty without removing from Council the question of compensation. Section 100S - dials with the probationary period:from the standpoint of the employer. Section t008 - changes the SO days suspension period to a longer period of time. If a 40 day suspension is warranted, the current Charter section, is inadequate to provide for such sus- pension. It is a matter of policy whether the Council agrees with this change or not. Section 1009 - deals with the term "lay off". Section 1400 - currently prevents the Council from having flexibility of changing retirement Systems. Pauline Lockwood stated that the Board has tried to make the Charter as:readable and as understandable as possible; that different jobs may require different lengths of probationary periods; and that a Charter should provide guidelines with rules and regulations that.need to be changed to keep pace with the times. Councilman David Brandt stated that he had no particular areas of disagreement; that he did not have time to sit down and go through the .Charter amendments section by section and ascertain the impact of each individual change; and he asked if all the necessary changes were being made, or if we were making more changes than are necessary~ Councilman Ortiz stated that his only concern was in the area of job security. Don Bott responded that at present a depart- ment head. has-one year in which to decide if he likes an employee's performance; that in the case of a fireman, for example, a year is sometimes inadequate if there have been no fires or not.enough, opportunity for the employee to demonstrate -.his ability in a particular job class. Councilman Evans asked if the members of the Personnel Board were basically in agreement with the members of the Charter Review Committee regarding the proposed amendments. Don Bott responded-,that the Personnel Board, Charter Review Committee and Staff were in accord. Councilman Ward. stated that he is concerned about following through with the direction given to the Charter Review Commit- tee and Personnel Board by the Council; that the Committees have put in quite a bit of time; that he does not agree with all of the amendments recommended by the two groups; but that the voters should have the opportunity to vote on the issues. He also stated that more work is needed on arguments and wording of issues. CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 41 JANUARY 25, 1977