GENERAL POWERS OF THE BOARD — Alameda County Municipal Code

Sec. 11: Board of Supervisors shall have all the jurisdiction and powers which are now or which may be hereafter granted by the Constitution and laws of the State of California, or by this Charter.

Sec. 12: It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors:

(a) To appoint all county officers other than elective officers, and all officers, assistants, deputies, clerks, attaches and employees whose appointment is not otherwise provided for by this Charter. Except in the cases of appointees to the unclassified service, all appointments by the Board shall be made from the eligible civil service list.

(b) To provide, by ordinance, for the compensation of elective and appointive officers, assistants, deputies, clerks, attaches and employees unless such compensation is otherwise fixed by this Charter. The compensation of elective officers shall be fixed at least six months prior to the election of such officer. The compensation of elective officers shall not be increased or diminished after the election of such officer or during his term of office; provided, however, that the Board of Supervisors may allow such additional deputies or assistants as may be necessary and proper, to elective and appointive officers during their terms of office, and that the Board of Supervisors may also increase the compensation of such deputies of assistants during the term of office of such officers.

(d) To provide, by ordinance, for the number of assistants, deputies, clerks, attaches and other persons to be employed from time to time in the several offices and institutions of the County.

(e) To provide, by ordinance, for the creation of offices, boards and commissions other than those required by the constitution and laws of the State, and for the appointment of persons to fill such offices, boards and commissions, and to prescribe their powers and duties and fix their compensation.

(f) To require any county or township officer or employee to give bond for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, in such penal sum as may be fixed by the Board. The premium for such bond shall be paid by the County.

(g) To provide, publish and enforce a complete code of rules not inconsistent with general laws of this Charter, prescribing in detail the duties and the systems of office and institutional management, accounts and reports for each of the offices institutions and departments of the County.

(h) To provide, by ordinance, for the consolidation and segregation of county offices.

(i) To let all contracts for any public work in accordance with the laws of the State of California.

(Amendment ratified November 4, 1986. In effect January 13, 1987.)

(j) (Repealed. Repeal ratified June 4, 1946, effective July 25, 1946.)

Sec. 12-¼: It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors to provide in every contract for the performance of labor, that the prevailing schedule of hours in private employment, but not to exceed eight hours, shall constitute a day's work, that the contractor and all subcontractors under him/her shall pay their employees on said work a salary or wage at least equal to the prevailing salary or wages for the same quality of service rendered to private persons, firms, or corporations under similar employment. (Amendment ratified November 4, 1986. In effect January 13, 1987.)

Sec. 12-½: (Repealed. Repeal ratified November 4, 1986, effective January 13, 1987.)

Sec. 13: (Repealed. Repeal ratified November 4, 1986, effective January 13, 1987.)

Sec 14: (Repealed. Repeal ratified November 2, 1982.)

Sec. 14-½: (Repealed. Repeal ratified November 4, 1986, effective January 13, 1987.)

Sec. 14-¾: Notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter, or any ordinance adopted pursuant to the provisions thereof, the Board of Supervisors shall have the authority, by a four-fifths vote of its members, to provide for the participation in the State Employees' Retirement System, or in any other retirement system now or hereafter authorized or established by the Laws of the State of California, of the County of Alameda and all persons in the present County Retirement System and all other persons in the service of the County who are eligible to membership in such state or other retirement system. The Board of Supervisors shall thereupon have authority to provide, by a like vote of its members, for the dissolution of the present County Retirement System, and also to provide, by a like vote of its members, for the transfer of moneys and other assets of the present County Retirement System to such state or other retirement system in accordance with the laws of the State of California in effect at the time of such transfer.

(Amendment ratified June 4, 1946. In effect July 25, 1946.)