HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 2782ORDINANCE NO. 2782
NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING CHAPTERS 2.08, 2.72 AND
2.84 OF TITLE 2 OF THE BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL
CODE RELATIVE TO ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of
as follows:
Section
hereby amended by
Bakersfield
SECTION 1.
2.08.010 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code is
adding a new subsection C. to read as follows:
2.08.010 Office created.
C. All references to Finance Director and/or Auditor-
Controller shall mean Assistant City Manager-Finance.
SECTION 2.
Section 2.72.010 35., 37., and 42. of the Bakersfield
Municipal Code are hereby amended to read as follows:
2.72.010 Definitions.
35. "Probationary period" means a working test period of
six months duration, except for employees in the Police Department
which shall be twelve months, during which an employee is required
to demonstrate his fitness for the position to which he is appointed
by actual performance of the duties of the position.
37. "Public safety employee" means police and fire safety
personnel.
42. "Salary step" means five salary levels withim a specific
salary range.
SECTION 3.
Subsection B of Section 2.72.210 of the Bakersfield
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
2.72.210 Change of positions.
B. Change of Position. All employees, except employees in
the Police Department, changing from one class or position to a
different class or position shall be required to undergo a six-
month probationary period. Police Department employees shall be
required to undergo a one-year probationary period. Civil Service
status shall be determined at the time of change.
SECTION 4.
Subsection F of Section 2.72.250 of the Bakersfield
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
F. Retirement. Employees retiring from city service are
subject to the terms and conditions of the city's contract with
the State Employee's Retirement System. Employees planning to
retire should give their department written notice thirty days
prior to the effective date of retirement. Mandatory retirement
age for police and fire safety personnel is sixty-five and all
others is seventy.
Subsection G. of Section 2.72.250 of the Bakersfield
Municipal Code is hereby repealed.
Subsections
Bakersfield Municipal
SECTION 5.
C.2. and D. of Section 2.84.150
Code are hereby amended to read
of the
as follows:
2.84.150 Acting appointments,
rates of pay.
C.2. Lead Responsibilities.
classification of Light Equipment
temporary assignments and
When an employee in the
Operator, Heavy Equipment
Operator, Tree Maintainer II, Sewer Maintainer, Maintenance Craft
Worker I, Maintenance Craft Worker II or Spray Rig Operator is
assigned to lead responsibilities for the majority of a shift to
a project, truck or job, he shall receive a salary adjustment
increase of five percent (5%) during the period of such assignment.
D. Assignment to Higher Classification - Fire Department
Employees. Any eligible Fire Department employee who is assigned
duties of a higher classification shall be paid the wage rate of
the higher classification for all the time he performed such
duties, if assigned to such duty for more than twelve (12) continuous
hours, in accordance with the administrative rules and regulations.
Section
hereby amended to
SECTION 6.
2.84.170 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code is
read as follows:
2.84.170 Driver differential compensation - Sanitation.
Any sanitation worker assigned to the duties and responsibilities
of a higher sanitation worker classification shall be compensated
at the rate of pay of the higher sanitation worker classification
in the step held by the assigned employee.
SECTION 7.
Subsection B. of Section 2.84.220 of the Bakersfield
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
2.84.220 Overtime-Accumulation.
B. Fire Department. Overtime accumulated as compensatory
time for eligible employees of the Fire Department assigned to a
twenty-four hour duty shift shall be converted to a fraction of a
shift. such employees may accumulate compensatory time up to,
but not exceeding, a credit of four twenty-four hour duty shifts.
All other eligible employees of the Fire ]Department may accumulate
compensatory time up to, but not exceeding, a credit of sixty
hours. All authorized overtime worked beyond the specified
maximum shall be paid in accordance with the administrative rules
and regulations. Authorized accumulation of more than the specified
maximum shall require prior approval of the City Manager.
SECTION 8.
Subsection A. of Section 2.84.270 of the Bakersfield
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
2.84.270 Additional compensation - Standby - Police and fire
suppression excepted - Additional compensation for fire prevention.
A. If an employee, other than a police or fire suppression
employee, who is on call is not confined to his home or any
particular place, but is required only to leave word where he may
be reached, the hours spent on such standby call are not working
time. Any such employee who is requested to be on call under
this Section, on his normal day off, shall be compensated at the
rate of twenty dollars per eight-hour shift. such employee
actually called back to work during such on-call time shall be
paid the standby rate and his hourly rate for one and one-half
times the hours worked computed to the nearest one-tenth of an
hour. All standby assignments must be made and authorized by the
department head.
SECTION 9.
Subsection A. of Section 2.84.290 of the Bakersfield
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
2.84.290 Voluntary extra duty of police.
A. Officers and members o~ the police department may voluntarily
accept extra-duty assignments for regular police work at public
gatherings and functions approved by the Chief of Police provided
such assignment does not exceed fifty hours in any calendar
month.
SECTION 10.
subsections A. and C. of Section 2.84.300 of
Municipal Code are hereby amended to read as follows:
the Bakersfield
2.84.300 Deduction from wages.
A. Shares and Savings in Credit Union,
Dues in Employee Organization,
authorize approved deductions
wages.
C. Duties of the Assistant City Manager-Finance.
Assistant City Manager-Finance is authorized to approve
U.S. Savings Bonds,
and for Donations. Employees may
to be made from their salaries or
The
and act
upon authorization for salary and wage deductions filed as
provided in subsection B of this section. He shall execute
checks in the total amounts of such deductions for the preceding
pay period payable to the organization for whose benefit deductions
have been made from salaries and wages of employees.
SECTION 11.
Section 2.84.350 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
2.84.350 Annual vacation leave--Accrual.
A. All eligible employees of the miscellaneous and police
departments shall earn and take vacation leave om the basis of
Accrual of vacation leave shall be at the following
working days.
rate:
1.
First four years, 0.385 of a working day biweekly
to yield ten working days annually;
2. Five through nineteen years, 0.577 of a working
day biweekly to yield fifteen working days annually;
3. Twenty years or more, 0.770 of a working day
biweekly to yield twenty working days annually.
B. Fire Department safety employees who are required to
work on twenty-four-hour duty shifts shall accrue vacation leave
at the following rates:
1. First four years, 0.180 of a twenty-four-hour duty
shift biweekly to yield 4.68 twenty-four-hour duty shifts annually;
2. Five through nineteen years, 0.270 of a twenty-
four-hour duty shift biweekly to yield 7.02 twenty-four-hour
duty shifts annually;
3. Twenty years or more, 0.360 of a twenty-four-hour
duty shift biweekly to yield 9.36 twenty-four-hour duty shifts
annually.
C. All other fire department employees shall accrue vacation
leave in the same manner as employees of the miscellaneous
departments.
SECTION 12.
Subsection A of Section 2.84.410 of the Bakersfield
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Annual vacation leave--Deferral of vacation.
2.84.410
A. In
vacation in
the event an employee
the prescribed period
may defer his accrued vacation to
is unable to complete his
for satisfactory reasons, he
the succeeding calendar year
with the prior approval of the department head and City Manager.
However, at no time shall there be more vacation time on the
books than the current year's accumulation and the previous one
year's approved carryover. Previous one year meaning only that
vacation time earned during the preceding calendar year.
SECTION 13.
Subsection C. of Section 2.84.490 of the Bakersfield
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
2.84.490 Sick leave--Policy.
C. Employees may utilize one eight-hour day or its shift
equivalent per year as personal necessity leave chargeable to
sick leave. Such leave is designed to permit employees time off
during normal working time to conduct personal business. Personal
necessity leave shall require prior approval of the department
head and shall be taken in minimum of two hours.
SECTION 14.
Subsection C. of Section 2.84.550 of the Bakersfield
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
2.84.550 Sick leave--Accumulation--Additional vacation in
lieu of sick leave.
C. One Hundred Twenty Days and Equivalent Shifts or Over
Unused Accumulated Sick Leave. All unused sick leave earned
during the calendar year over one hundred twenty days or equivalent
shifts accumulated will be converted into additional vacation
time at the following rates:
1. Management, blue collar unit, white collar unit,
general employees supervisory unit, police supervisory unit and
police unit employees at seventy-five percent of the unused
balance;
2. Fire unit and fire
do not use any sick leave for an
supervisory unit employees who
entire calendar year will
receive one hundred percent of their unused sick leave in pay as
additional vacation. An employee in the fire unit who uses any
part of his sick leave during the calendar year will revert back
to fifty percent conversion of his unused sick leave. An employee
in the fire supervisory unit who uses any part of his sick leave
during the calendar year will revert back to seventy-five percent
conversion of his unused sick leave.
SECTION 15.
This ordinance shall be posted
City Charter provisions and shall become
days from and after the date of
in accordance with the
effective thirty (30)
its passage.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed
and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 29th day of September , 1982, by
the following vote:
CITY CLERK ~nd Ex Officio Clerk of
Council of the City of Bakersfield
the
APPROVED) this 29t~h day of September
M~Y~/ of the City of Bakersfield
, 1982
APPROVED as to form:
iT ' 2o
of Bakersfield
Affidavit of ~Iosfiug ~r~tuattres
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 1
County of Kern ss.
PHILIP KELMAR, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That he is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and
that on ................................S....e...l~..~.~...m...l~.?..~'.......3._.O.. ...................................................., 19...8...2..... he posted on the Bulletin Board
at the City Hall, a full, true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Council of said City
at a meeting thereof duly held on .............~..~.~.?..~..~..~?..~..r......~.~.~ .....................................19._~_.2.., which ordi~-ce
was numbered_ ...........~.~.~ ..................New Series, and entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING CHAPTERS 2.08, 2.72 AND
2.84 OF TITLE 2 OF THE BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL
CODE RELATIVE TO ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL.
y Clerk
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
.~Q~.h. day of ......~.~l~e.~.b..~r ,19 82
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