Lindsay Municipal Code § 2.56 Departments, Agencies And Personnel System

1. Creation of Departments. The city manager shall recommend and the city council shall by ordinance create, reorganize and abolish city departments, divisions, offices, agencies, authorities and corporations as necessary for the effective management of the city, in addition to those created by the City Charter.
2. Functions. The functions of all city departments, divisions, offices, agencies, authorities and corporations shall be determined and assigned by ordinance.
3. Prohibition on Revision. No function assigned by the City Charter to a particular department or office may be discontinued or, unless this Charter specifically so provides, assigned to any other.
4. Direction. All departments, offices, agencies, authorities and corporations of the city government shall be under the direction and supervision of the city manager.
5. City Manager as Department Head. With consent of the council, the city manager may serve as the head of one or more such departments, offices, agencies, authorities or corporations, or may appoint one person as the head of two or more departments.

(Ord. 472 § 2 (part), 1996)

1. Appointment. The city manager shall appoint a department head for each department, which person shall be qualified in the field of expertise encompassed within the assigned department.
2. Removal. All department heads shall serve at the pleasure of the city manager and be subject to his/her direction and supervision.
3. Requirements. All department heads shall be city employees for the purposes of powers and duties, and be provided employment agreements by the city manager setting out the terms and conditions of employment, pay, benefits, goals and objectives, a requirement for periodic and regular performance evaluations, obligations and termination. Such agreements shall not exceed four years and shall be a public record.
4. Restrictions. No department head may engage in any incompatible business, occupation or activity.

(Ord. 472 § 2 (part), 1996)

1. By Ordinance. The city council shall adopt a city personnel ordinance providing for the establishment, regulation and maintenance of a personnel system governing those city human resource policies and procedures available to the city manager or his/her designee for the effective administration of the employees of the city.
2. Merit System. In making appointments and promotions of city employees, the appointing authority shall be guided by the requirements set out in the city personnel ordinance.
3. Personnel System Components. The city personnel ordinance shall include, but not be limited to the following:
4. An integrated classification and pay plan, force reduction procedures, working conditions, discipline and dismissal, inservice training, grievances, relationships with employee organizations, regular and periodic employee performance evaluations, and incentive plans; and
5. Open, publicly posted and competitive employee selection processes utilizing, where and when feasible, validated examinations at entry level and objective evaluation processes for all other classifications; and
6. Such other personnel and human resource management provisions, as shall be deemed to be necessary, adopted by resolution.
7. Fair Employment Practices. The city personnel system shall in all manner and respects comply fully with all federal and state laws governing fair employment practices and prohibiting discrimination in all forms.

(Ord. 472 § 2 (part), 1996)

1. How Created. The city council by ordinance or resolution may create, modify, combine and abolish such boards, commissions and committees as it shall determine.
2. Appointments. Boards, commissions and committees established by ordinance shall consist of members nominated by the mayor and approved by the council. Boards, commissions and committees established by resolution shall be appointed by the mayor from nominees presented to him/her by the council.
3. Powers and Duties. The ordinance shall prescribe their powers and duties, determine the number and qualifications of the members, their method of selection, term of office and removal, and fix their compensation, if any.
4. Limitation. All boards, commissions and committees only shall be advisory to the city council, and may not exercise any administrative or management powers.

(Ord. 472 § 3, 1996)