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city council Meeting 3-12-91
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1574(CCS)
(city Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL
CODE SECTION 2103C RELATING TO COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 2103C is
amended to read as follows:
SECTION
2103C.
Competitive
Examinations.
The relative merit of
applicants
for
appointment
to,
or
promotion within, the Classified Service
shall
be
determined
by
competitive
examination,
unless
promotion
is
authorized by the Personnel Board, upon
recommendation of the appointing
authority, without competitive
examination, or by open competitive
examination. Competitive examinations
will include the consideration and rating
of any or all of the following factors:
education, experience, knowledge, skill,
special aptitude, general adaptability I
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personality, character, physical fitness,
promotability, and such other
qualifications are are considered
necessary by the Personnel Director for
the satisfactory performance of work of
the classification being examined for.
Examinations shall be administered fairly
to all participating applicants, and the
identity of applicants shall be concealed
in written examinations. Prior to
examination, applications may be required
to submit proof of age, citizenship,
military service, and acceptable physical
condition. Promotional examinations
shall be limited to employees with
permanent civil service status who have
completed the probationary period
successfully, and who have had the
required experience in the service of the
City of Santa Monica.
Examinations may be assembled, or
unassembled, and they may consist of
written tests, performance tests,
evaluation of qualifications, or oral
tests, or any combination of the
foregoing.
In the case of promotional
examinations, in addition to any of the
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foregoing types of examinations which may
be administered credit shall be allowed
for promotability and seniority.
Promotability shall be allowed a weight
of two out of ten points using the
promotability appraisal rating given the
employee at the time of the examination
as provided in the section of this manual
dealing with efficiency ratings. A
weight of one point out of ten shall be
allowed for seniority, provided such
seniority has been acquired in a type of
position closely related to that being
examined for. A competing employee with
less than one year's seniority sha11 be
credited with 70% on this phase of the
examination, with an additional 3% for
each successive year of experience up to
a maximum of 10 years seniority, which
shall be credited as 100%. In computing
the final examination grade, the
percentage grade on each of the major
sections of the test shall be multiplied
by the weight assigned to that section,
and the totals thus obtained shall be
added together and divided by the sum of
the weights.
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until July 1, 1992, the city
Manager may in his or her sole discretion
suspend the use of promotability as a
rating factor in any promotional civil
service examination if the City Manager
determines that the City does not have
the ability to objectively apply
promotability as a rating factor in any
such examination.
SECTION 2. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of
this Ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no
further, are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary
to affect the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid
or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of any competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not
declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether
any portion of the Ordinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. The Mayor shall sign and the city Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall
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cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper
within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall become
effective after 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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city Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 12th day of March, 1991.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1574(CCS)
was duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the city
Council on the 5th day of March 1991: that the said Ordinance was
thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the city Council on the
12th day of March 1991 by the following Council vote:
Ayes: Councilmembers: Genser, Holbrook, Ka tz , Olsen,
Vazquez, Zane, and Mayor Abdo
Noes: councilmembers: None
Abstain: councilmembers: None
Absent: Councilmembers: None
ATTEST:
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