Victorville Municipal Code Ch. 2.22 Merit System for Personnel Administration

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Editor's note— Ord. No. 2452, § 2, adopted Nov. 5, 2024, amended Chapter 2.22 §§ 2.22.010—2.22.140 in its entirety to read as herein set out. See the Code Comparative Table and Diposition List for complete derivation.

In order to establish an equitable and uniform procedure for dealing with personnel matters, to attract to municipal service the best, most competent persons available, to assure that appointments and promotions of employees to the competitive service will be based on merit and fitness and to provide a reasonable degree of security for qualified employees the personnel system set out in this chapter is adopted.

(Ord. No. 2452, § 2, 11-5-24)

The merit system for personnel administration created and established in Section 2.22.010, and all of its benefits are extended to and, by this section, includes all regular and permanent employees, members of all departments of the city who are members of the State Employees' Retirement System subject to the provisions of the State Employees' Retirement Act of the State of California, except elected officials and those expressly excluded in Section 2.22.030 hereof.

(Ord. No. 2452, § 2, 11-5-24)

Provisions of this chapter shall apply to all officers and employees in the service of the city, except:

(a) Elected officials;

(b) City manager, assistant city managers, and deputy city managers;

(c) Department heads or equivalent (as designated on the table of organization adopted by the city council);

(d) Members of appointive board commissions, committees and agencies;

(e) Contract employees;

(f) Volunteer personnel;

(g) City attorney;

(h) City clerk;

(i) City treasurer;

(j) Emergency employees (who are hired to meet the immediate requirements of an emergency condition, such as an extraordinary fire, flood, earthquake, etc., which threatens life or property);

(k) Part-time employees;

(l) Temporary or seasonal employees, whether part-time or full-time;

(m) Contractors or consultants who may be doing business with the city;

(n) Probationary employees;

(o) Provisional employees;

(p) Employees, other than those listed in this section, who are not employed in regular positions; including, but not limited to, employees working under contingent employment conditions.

Employees excluded from the competitive service serve at the will and pleasure of the appointing power and may be terminated at any time without any obligation whatsoever, on the part of the city, to prove cause or justification and without right of appeal or hearing, unless otherwise required by law. The terms of this section shall not be changed in any way whatsoever, except by an ordinance or duly adopted resolution of the city council.

(Ord. No. 2452, § 2, 11-5-24)

The city manager is delegated the following powers, authority and/or duties:

(a) To act as city personnel officer and to have the authority to delegate such duties inherent therein to a management employee as he or she shall deem appropriate, in whole or in part, by issuance of appropriate administrative orders;

(b) To develop, approve, review, and revise comprehensive personnel rules, forms and procedures governing the details of all personnel administration and management encompassing all categories of appointed city employees;

(c) To develop, review, and revise a position classification plan encompassing all categories of appointed city employees; to recommend revisions to the classification plan which shall become effective upon approval of the table of organization by the city council;

(d) To develop, review, and revise a compensation plan encompassing all categories of appointed city employees and to administer such plan; to recommend revisions to the compensation plan which shall become effective upon approval of the table of compensation by the city council;

(e) To keep the city council informed of changes affecting major personnel policy, the city employee workforce or personnel impacts on the community.

(Ord. No. 2452, § 2, 11-5-24)