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City Council Meeting 6-20-95
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1807
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING MUNICIPAL CODE
SECTION 2.04.250 RELATING TO COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Municipal Code Section 2.04.250 is amended to read
as follows:
2.04.250 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,
wi thout competi ti ve 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,
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shall be allowed for seniority. 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
shall 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.
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, is
hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary to effect the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
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unconstitutional by a decision of any court of 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
cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper
within 15 days after its adoption.
This Ordinance shall become
effective 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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MARSHA JOJteS MOUTRIE
city Attot-hey
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Mayor
State of CalIforma )
County of Los Angeles) ss
CIty of Santa Mornea )
I, Beth Sanchez, ASSIstant CIty Clerk of the CIty of Santa Mornca, do hereby certIfy that the
foregOIng Ordmance No 1807 (CCS) had Its fIrst readmg on June 13. 1995 and had Its second
readmg on June 20. 1995 and was passed by the followmg vote
Ayes
CouncIl members
Abdo, Genser, Greenberg, Holbrook, O'Connor, RosensteIn
Noes
CounCIl members
None
Abstam
CounCIl members
None
Absent
CounCIl members
Ebner
ATTEST
JitkI~
Asslstant'Clty Clerk c7