(e)

Not to exceed two confidential employees in the office of the Board of Supervisors.

(f)

Not to exceed two persons serving as Assistant Sheriff. (Amendment ratified November 5, 1996. In effect November 27, 1996.)

The classified service shall comprise all positions not specifically included by this Charter in the unclassified service, provided that in the case of a vacancy requiring peculiar and exceptional qualifications of a scientific, professional or expert character, upon satisfactory evidence that competition is impracticable, and that the position can best be filled by the selection of a person of recognized attainments, competitive examinations may be suspended, but no such suspension shall be general in its application to such position, and all such cases of suspension shall be reported by the Commission, together with the reasons therefore, to the Board of Supervisors.

(Amendment ratified November 7, 1972. In effect March 1, 1973.)

Sec. 35.1: All appointive agency and department heads, other than department heads reporting to an agency head, appointed by the Board of Supervisors on or after the effective date of this section shall be included in the unclassified service and shall serve at the pleasure of the Board of Supervisors. This section shall supersede any conflicting provision of Section 17.3. Persons hereafter appointed to positions in county hospitals as directors of Highland General and Fairmont Hospitals and their chief assistant administrators, associate directors or associate administrators, deputy directors, medical directors,

financial directors, and nursing directors shall be included in the unclassified service and shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority.

(Amendment ratified June 3, 1986. In effect August 22, 1986.)

Sec. 35.2: The unclassified service shall include entry level positions designated by an appointing officer with approval of the civil service commission for persons who meet minimum qualifications and are certified as persons with severe disabilities. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Charter, persons appointed to such positions under this subsection, and whose job performance is certified as satisfactory by their appointing officer, and who remain in said position for one year, shall acquire civil service status. The civil service commission shall adopt rules and regulations to enforce and implement this subsection which shall include performance evaluation requirements, definitions of and standards for the certification of the severely disabled.

(Amendment ratified March 24, 2000. In effect January 1, 2001.)

Sec. 36: It shall be the duty of the Civil Service Commission:

(a)

To provide for the classification of all positions in the classified Civil Service and from time to time for the reclassification of any or all such positions and for the allocation and reallocation of individual positions to classes in such manner as to permit and encourage the filling of higher classes by promotion. In the performance of such duty, the Commission shall be guided by the principles presently set forth in Section 18,801 of the Government Code of the State of California. Each such action of the Commission shall be submitted to the Board of Supervisors and shall become effective upon approval by said Board.

(Amendment ratified November 2, 1954. In effect March 8, 1955.)

(b)

To provide for the preparation and holding of competitive examinations in order to test the relative fitness of all applicants for appointment to or promotion in the classified Civil Service; provided, however, that noncompetitive qualifying examinations may be given to incumbents with tenure in positions which are reclassified or reallocated, and that the name of each incumbent who qualifies in such qualifying examination shall be placed on an eligible list and the said incumbent shall be appointed subject to probation to the reclassified or reallocated position, anything in this Charter to the contrary notwithstanding. Adequate notice but not less than 14 calendar days notice shall be given of each competitive examination.

(Amendment ratified June 7, 1966. In effect February 27, 1967.)

(Ord. No. 2023-59, § 1, 10-31-23)

(c)

To provide a period of probation for each class in the classified civil service before appointment or promotion is complete, during which period a probationer may be discharged or reduced. Each such action

of the Commission shall be submitted to the Board of Supervisors and shall become effective upon approval by said Board.

(Amendment ratified November 2, 1954. In effect March 8, 1955.)

(d)

To examine the payrolls of all employees in the classified civil service and the County Auditor shall not pay or approve any payment of salaries to such persons unless there appears on the payroll therefor, a certification by the Commission that the persons named thereon have been appointed to their respective positions in accordance with the provisions of this Charter.

(Amendment ratified November 5, 1940. In effect December 4, 1940.)