Vallejo Municipal Code Ch. 2.43 Civil Service Commission

Pursuant to Charter Section 603, there is established and continued the civil service commission for the city to consist of five members who shall be nominated by any councilman or the mayor for terms of four years and thereafter until their successors are appointed. All present members appointed before July 1, 1974, and those appointed thereafter to fill vacant terms with less than four years remaining shall continue to serve for the terms to which they were appointed; any member appointed between July 1, 1974, and the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter to fill a previously expired term shall serve for a term of four years from the date of expiration of said previous term. If a vacancy occurs other than by expiration of a term, it shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired portion of the term by the city council in the same manner as an original appointment. The terms of no more than two members shall expire in any one year, and terms may be adjusted by resolution to achieve this result.

(Ord. 242 N.C.(2d) § 1 (part), 1974.)

The commission shall provide for the standardization and classification of all positions and employment in the classified service of the city; for competitive tests to ascertain the relative fitness of all applicants for appointment in the classified service; for rules for the government, supervision and control of the classified service, as such duties are designated in the City Charter, the ordinances adopted thereunder and the rules and regulations in effect pursuant to said Charter and ordinances.

(Ord. 242 N.C.(2d) § 1 (part), 1974.)

Any appointed member of the civil service commission may be removed by the city council. Each member of the civil service commission shall be paid the sum of twenty-five dollars for each meeting the member attends, from and after July 1, 1974, provided that such payment shall not exceed the sum of fifty dollars in any calendar month.

(Ord. 242 N.C.(2d) § 1 (part), 1974.)

The commission shall elect a chairman from among the appointed members for a term of one year, and subject to any other provisions of law may elect such other officers as it may determine. The commission shall hold at least one regular meeting every two months and shall adopt rules for the transaction of business and shall keep a record of its resolutions, transactions, findings and determinations, which records shall be a public record. The commission shall appoint such officers and employees and contract for such services as it may deem necessary for the accomplishment of its work subject to all provisions of law provided that all expenditures of the commission, exclusive of gifts, shall be within the amounts appropriated for the purpose by the city council.

(Ord. 242 N.C.(2d) § 1 (part), 1974.)