69R-604
RESOLUTION NO.
9~R-604
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
AMENDING RESOLUTION NO. 63R-9l0 AND SUPERSEDING RESOLUTION
NO. 68R-427 AMENDING PERSONNEL RULE NO. 4 APPROPRIATE
SALARY STEP.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
that Personnel Rule No. 4 Appropriate Salary Step be, and the same
is hereby amended to provide as follows:
RULE 4. APPROPRIATE SALARY STEP
Section 4.0 The pay plan for the City of Anaheim shall be as provided
in the Salary Resolution.
Section 4.1 Regular, full-time employees shall be eligible for con-
sideration for merit pay increases as follows:
4.11 To the "B" step of the salary schedule after completion
of six months of service in the "A" step.
4 .12 To the "c" step after completion of six months of
service in the "B" step.
4.13 To the "D" step after completion of one year of
service in the "c" step, except as provided in
Sec t ion 4. 17 .
4.14 To the "E" step after completion of one year of
service in the "D" step, except as provided in
Section 4.17.
4.15 In such caSes as may occur wherein an employee shall
demonstrate exceptional ability and proficiency in
performance of his assigned duties, said employee may
be given a special merit advancement to the next higher
step without regard to the minimum length of service
provisions contained in this resolution upon the recom-
mendation of his department head and approval of the
City Manager.
4.16 For purposes of Rule 4 of this resolution, "six months"
shall be construed to mean thirteen complete biweekly
pay periods; and "one year" shall be construed to mean
twenty-six complete biweekly pay periods.
4.17 Certain job classes in the classified service, upon
recommendation of the Personnel Director and approval
of the City Council, shall be designated in the Resolution
establishing rates for job classes by an "S" before
schedule numbers. Employees in these classes shall be
eligible for consideration for merit pay increases to
the "D" step after completion of six months of service in
the "c" step. They shall be eligible for consideration
for merit pay increases to the "E" step after completion
of six months of service in the "D" step.
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4.21 Merit pay increases for department heads shall require
approval of the City Manager.
4.22 Merit pay increases for the City Manager and City
Attorney shall require approval of the City Council.
4.23 The effective date of merit pay increases shall be
first day of the pay period following approval as
provided in Section 4.2 and completion of the minimum
required service in the next lower step as provided
in Section 4.1.
Section 4.3 An employee who is being paid on a salary step higher than
the "A" step may be reduced by one or more steps on the basis of unsatis-
factory work performance or conduct. Such action shall require the
specific recommendation of the employee's department head and the
Personnel Director and the approval of the City Manager.
4.31 The employee shall be notified by his department head
not later than two calendar weeks prior to the effective
date of the action. The notice shall contain a state-
ment of the substatial reasons for the action, and
shall inform the employee that he may file a reply with
the department head and the Personnel Director no later
than one calendar week prior to the effective date of
the action. Such reply shall be reviewed by the City
Manager for final action.
Section 4.4 Newly hired employees shall be compensated at the "A" step
of the salary schedule of the job class for which he was hired. When
economic conditions, unusual employment conditions, or exceptional
qualifications of a candidate for employment indicate that a higher
hiring rate would be in the City's best interests, the City Manager
may authorize hiring at a higher step in the salary schedule, upon
request of the Personnel Director. The provisions of this section
shall also apply to re-employed and reinstated employees.
Section 4.5 An incumbent employee reclassified with his position to
a lower job class shall retain his rate of pay and his anniversary date
for purposes of merit pay increases, or shall be placed in the step
of the lower salary schedule closest to his rate of pay. If the "E"
step of the salary schedule of the lower job class is lower than the
incumbent's rate of pay, the rate of pay shall be indentified as the
"y" step of the lower salary schedule. An employee compensated at a
"Y" step because of a downward reclassification shall remain in the
"Y" step, until such time as his job class is assigned to a salary
schedule in which the "E" step is equivalent to or higher than the "Y"
step, at which time the employee shall be placed in the "E" step.
An incumbent employee reclassified with his position to an equivalent
job class shall retain his rate of pay and his anniversary date for
purposes of merit pay increases.
Section 4.6 An employee who is promoted or reclassified with his pos-
ition to a higher job class shall be placed in the step of the higher
salary schedule that will provide a pay increase of not less than 5%
or more than 7.5%, except when the "E" step of the higher salary schedule
provides a pay increase of 2.5%, or when the "A" step in the higher salary
schedule is more than 7.5% higher than the emplovee's currpn~ r~~p nF nau
Section 4.7 An employee who is demoted shall be placed in the step of
the lower salary schedule that will provide a reduction in pay of not
less than 5%. The employee shall be given a new anniversary date for
purposes of merit pay increases in accordance with the provisions of
Sec tion 4.1.
Section 4.8 An employee in a job class which is assigned to a different
salary schedule as a result of a pay adjustment shall retain his same
salary step status in the newly authorized salary schedule and shall
retain the same anniversary date for purposes of merit pay increases.
Section 4.9 When more than one personnel action involving changes in
an employee's salary step status become effective on the same day, all
such changes shall be in accordance with the provisions of the preceding
sections of the RULE, and shall take place in the following order of
precedence:
(1) merit pay advancement or reduction in salary step; (2) adjustment
to same salary step in newly authorized salary schedule; (3) promotion,
demotion, or reclassification."
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the effective date of this
Resolution shall be October 10, 1969.
day of
THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and signed by me this 23rd
October , 1969.
ATTEST:
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CI CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF ANAHEIM
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I, DENE M. WILLIAMS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 69R-604 was intro-
duced and adopted at a adjourned regular meeting' provided by law. ,of
the City Council 'of the City of Anaheim, held on the 23rd day of Oct-
ober, 1969, by the following vote of the members thereof:
A YES: COUNCILMEN: Dutton, Schutte and Clark
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: Krein and Pebley
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim
approved and signed said Resolution No. 69R-604 on the 23rd day of Oct-
ober, 1969.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the official seal of the City of Anaheim this 23rd day of October, 1969.
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CITY LERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
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I, DENE M. WILLIAMS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do
hereby certify that the foregoing is the original of Resolution No.
69R-604 duly passed and adopted by the Anaheim City Council on Oct-
ober 23, 1969.
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