99-197RESOLUTION NO. 99R- 197
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM RELATING TO THE EXEMPT SERVICE
POSITIONS OF CITY COUNCIL ASSISTANTS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. CREATION OF POSITIONS.
Pursuant to paragraph .0106 of subsection .020 of Section
1.05.030 of the Anaheim Municipal Code, there are hereby created the
multiple positions of City Council Assistant. The positions of City
Council Assistant shall be divided into the classifications of City
Council Assistant I and City Council Assistant II. Except where
otherwise expressly provided in this resolution, the positions of
City Council Assistant I and City Council Assistant II shall be
collectively referred to herein as either "City Council Assistant"
or "Assistant."
SECTION 2. DUTIES.
The City Council Assistant shall provide assistance and support
to an assigned City Council member in the performance of the city
council member's official duties and responsibilities. The duties
of the City Council Assistant I and City Council Assistant II shall
be as generally set forth in the job description for each such
position as approved by the City Council. The specific work and
tasks of each Assistant shall be as determined by the City Manager
based upon direction received by the City Manager from the
individual City Council member to whom such Assistant is assigned.
No City Council Assistant, while on official duty, shall perform or
be requested to perform, nor be compensated by the City for
performing, any tasks or services of a political or personal nature
or any tasks or services not related to the official duties and
functions of the City Council member to whom such Assistant is
assigned.
SECTION 3.
APPOINTMENT, REMOVAL AND TEMPORARY NATURE
OF POSITIONS.
Pursuant to Section 604 of the City Charter and Section
1.04.110 of the Anaheim Municipal Code, City Council Assistants
shall be deemed employees of the City Manager Department of the City
and shall be subject to the appointment and removal of the City
Manager at any time, with or without cause. City Council Assistants
shall be at-will, confidential, part-time employees in the exempt
service of the City. All such positions and appointments shall be
temporary in nature. In no event shall any Assistant have any
expectation of permanency of employment with the City. In no event
shall the term of employment of any Assistant extend beyond the term
of city office of the City Council member to whom such Assistant is
assigned. A City Council member may recommend to the City Manager
the appointment or removal of any Assistant assigned or to be
assigned to such City Council member.
SECTION 4.
APPOINTMENTS TO BE MADE AT THE REOUEST OF
INDIVIDUAL CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
The appointment and assignment of City Council Assistants to
each individual member of the City Council shall be made at such
times and in such numbers as requested by each individual City
Council member.
SECTION 5.
ANNUAL BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS; TOTAL NUMBER OF
ASSISTANTS AND ANNUAL HOURS WORKED.
As part of the annual budget, or at such other times as
determined by the City Council, the City Council shall each year
appropriate funds for City Council Assistant(s) for each member of
the City Council. The funds appropriated for each City Council
member for such purpose shall be an equal amount. Each City Council
member shall determine the number of Assistants assigned to such
City Council member and shall be responsible for the number of hours
worked by each such Assistant, provided that in no event shall any
individual Assistant work in such position more than 1,000 hours
annually nor shall the total compensation payable annually by the
City for all City Council Assistants assigned to each City Council
member exceed the annual amount budgeted and appropriated to such
position(s) for such City Council member.
SECTION 6.
PERFORMANCE MONITORING.
Each member of the City Council shall be responsible for
monitoring the performance of the City Council Assistants assigned
to such City Council member and shall determine and approve the
number of hours worked by each City Council Assistant within each
city pay period. Each City Council Assistant shall complete a bi-
weekly time sheet in a form required by the Finance Department,
which completed time sheet shall be verified and signed by the
individual City Council member to whom such Assistant is assigned,
or by such City Council member's designee. Such verified time sheet
shall be submitted to the Payroll Division of the Finance Department
for payment . Time sheets and payments shall be subject to audit by
the City auditors.
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SECTION 7. COMPENSATION.
City Council Assistants shall be compensated as established by
the City Council.
SECTION 8.
WORK AREAS AND OFFICE HOURS.
The City Manager shall be responsible for determining work
stations to be assigned to City Council Assistants, provided that
each city council member shall be provided with an equal amount of
work space for his or her Assistants regardless of the number of
Assistants assigned to any individual city council member at any one
time. Work space may be assigned in a common area to be shared by
all Assistants. In addition to the work space assigned by the City
Manager, City Council Assistants may work in the office of the
council member to whom they are assigned with the approval and at
the sole discretion of such city council member.
SECTION 9.
COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS AND REGULATIONS.
City Council Assistants shall comply with all applicable
federal and state laws, provisions of the Anaheim Municipal Code,
Administrative Regulations of the City, and all policies and
procedures established for the Office of the Mayor and City Council.
SECTION 10.
ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT.
Prior to accepting employment, each City Council Assistant
shall be provided with a copy of this resolution and shall read,
countersign and return a signed copy hereof to the Human Resources
Department indicating that he or she acknowledges and accepts the
terms of employment provided herein.
SECTION 11.
DEFINITION OF TERMS.
The term "city council member" as used herein shall include the
Mayor of the City of Anaheim.
THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is adopted and approved by the City
Council of the City of Anaheim this 21st da of Sep her , 1999.
MAYOR OF TH EIM
ATTEST:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, SHERYLL SCHROEDER, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Resolution No. 99R-197 was introduced and adopted at a regular meeting provided by law, of the
Anaheim City Council held on the 21st day of September, 1999, by the following vote of the
members thereof:
AYES:
MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS: Feldhaus, Kring, Tait, McCracken, Daly
NOES:
MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT:
MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said Resolution No.99R-
197 on the 21st day of September, 1999.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of
Anaheim this 21 st day of September, 1999.
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CI OFANAHEIM
(SEAL)
I, SHERYLL SCHROEDER, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing
is the original of Resolution No. 99R-197 was duly passed and adopted by the City Council of the
City of Anaheim on September 21st, 1999.
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