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City Council Meeting 6-20-95 Santa Monica, California
JUN 2 0 1995
TO: Mayor and city Council
FROM: City Attorney
SUBJECT: Ordinance Amending Municipal Code section 2.04.250
(Competitive Examinations) to Eliminate Promotability as
a Rating Factor for Promotional Examinations
INTRODUCTION
At its meeting on June 13, 1995, the City council introduced for
first reading an ordinance amending Municipal Code Section 2.04.250
(Competitive Examinations) to eliminate promotability as a rating
factor for promotional examinations. The ordinance is now
presented to the City Council for adoption.
RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying ordinance be
adopted.
PREPARED BY: Marsha Jones Moutrie, City Attorney
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City Council Meeting 6-20-95 Santa Monica, Californla
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 SerVlce shall be determined by
competitive examination, unless promotion l.S
authorized by the Personnel Board, upon
recommendation of the appointing authority,
without competitive examination, or by open
competitive examination. competltive
examinations will include the consideration
and rating of any or all of the following
factors: education, experience, knowledge,
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skill, special aptitude, general adaptability,
personality, character, physical fitness, and
such other qualification s as 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,
applicants may be required to submit proof of
age, citizenship, military service, and
acceptable physical condition. Promotional
examinations shall be limited to employees
w1th permanent civil service status who have
completed the probationary period
successfully, and who have had the required
experience in the service of the City.
Examinations may be assembled, or
unassembled, and they may consist of written
tests, performance tests, evaluation of
qualifications, or oral tests, or any
combinatlon of the foregoing.
In the case of promotional examinations,
in addition to any of the foregoing types of
examinations which may be administered credit
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shall be allowed for seniority. A weight of
one point out of ten shall be allowed for
senior~ty, provlded 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 credi ted \<H th 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 obtalned shall be
added together and dlvided by the sum of the
weights.
SECTION 2. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal Code
or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of thlS
Ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no further, is
hereby repealed or modifled to that extent necessary to effect the
provlsions 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 dec1sion 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 JO~S MOUTRIE
City Atto ey
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Mayor
State of CaltfornIa )
County of Los Angeles) ss
CIty of Santa MOnIca )
I, Beth Sanchez. Assistant City Clerk of the City of Santa MOllIca. do hereby certify that the
foregomg Ordmance No 1807 (CCS) had Its Erst readmg on June 13. 1995 and had Its second
readmg on June :40, 1995 and was passed by the followmg vote
Ayes CouncIl members Abdo. Genser, Greenberg, Holbrook. O'Connor, Rosenstein
Noes CounCIl members )lone
Abstam CounCil members None
Absent CouncIl members Ebner
ATTEST
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ASslstan(City Clerk tJ