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Home My WebLink About2018-01-23 - AGENDA REPORTS - LIBRARY TRANSITION (2)Agenda Item: 5 CITY OF SANTA CLARITA AGENDA REPORT CONSENT CALENDAR CITY MANAGER APPROVAL: 41 DATE: January 23, 2018 SUBJECT: SECOND READING OF AN ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO LIBRARY TRANSITION DEPARTMENT: Neighborhood Services PRESENTER: Rebecca Widdison RECOMMENDED ACTION City Council adopt an Ordinance entitled, "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SANTA CLARITA MUNICIPAL CODE SECTIONS 2.75.030 AND 2.75.040 TO ADD CERTAIN LIBRARY CLASSIFICATIONS TO THE PERSONNEL SYSTEM BUT EXCLUDE THE CITY LIBRARIAN AND PTS LIBRARY AIDE FROM THE COMPETITIVE SERVICE." BACKGROUND At the regular meeting of the City Council on January 9, 2018, the City Council introduced and passed to second reading an ordinance pertaining to the Santa Clarita Public Library (SCPL) transition. On January 9, 2018, the City Council adopted a resolution to amend the City of Santa Clarita's (City's) position classification plan to add the classifications of City Librarian, Library Administrator, Senior Librarian, Librarian, Library Assistant, and PTS Library Aide, and establish the salary ranges for each classification. This purpose of this ordinance is to clearly document that all of the library classifications will be included in the City's personnel system, with the classifications of Library Administrator, Senior Librarian, Librarian, and Library Assistant included in the City's Competitive Service under Section 2.75.040 and the City Librarian and PTS Library Aide excluded from the City's Competitive Service under Section 2.75.040. The ordinance includes a non -substantive revision to Section 2.75.030 of the Municipal Code to clarify the City Manager's authority over the City's entire personnel system, both the Competitive Service and those excluded from the Competitive Service. ALTERNATIVE ACTION Other action as determined by the City Council. O Page 1 Packet Pg. 30 FISCAL IMPACT None by this action. ATTACHMENTS Ordinance Amending Santa Clarita Municipal Code to Add Library Classifications O Page 2 Packet Pg. 31 ORDINANCE NO. 18 - AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SANTA CLARITA MUNICIPAL CODE SECTIONS 2.75.030 AND 2.75.040 TO ADD CERTAIN LIBRARY CLASSIFICATIONS TO THE PERSONNEL SYSTEM BUT EXCLUDE THE CITY LIBRARIAN AND PTS LIBRARY AIDE FROM THE COMPETITIVE SERVICE The City Council of the City of Santa Clarita does hereby ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Findings: A. The City Council has amended the City's position classification plan to add the classifications of City Librarian, Library Administrator, Senior Librarian, Librarian, Library Assistant, and PTS Library Aide (collectively Library Classifications) and establish associated salary ranges for each. The City Librarian classification/position has been established as a Division Manager. B. Section 45002 of the California Government Code grants discretion to the City Council to include library personnel, other than the Board of Library Trustees, in any personnel system established by the City. C. The Board of Library Trustees for the City of Santa Clarita has delegated any authority over City Library Classifications to the City Council. D. Pursuant to Section 2.75.010 of the Santa Clarita Municipal Code (SCMC), the City Council has adopted a personnel system for all City employees, which is intended to include the Competitive Service and employees in classifications excluded from the Competitive Service under SCMC 2.75.040. E. Pursuant to Section 2.75.030 of the SCMC, the City Council has delegated authority to the City Manager, as the Personnel Officer, to administer the City's personnel system. F. Pursuant to Section 2.75.040.E, the City has excluded Division Manager -level classifications from the Competitive Service. G. Pursuant to Section 2.75.040.J, the City has excluded PTS classifications from the Competitive Service. SECTION 2. Section 2.75.030 of the SCMC is amended to read: The City Manager shall administer the City personnel system, including the Competitive Service and those classifications excluded from the Competitive Service, and shall serve as the Personnel Officer. A. Act as the appointing authority for the City, except for the City Attorney who shall be appointed by the City Council. 5.a Packet Pg. 32 B. Administer all the provisions of this chapter and of the personnel rules not specifically reserved to the City Council. C. Prepare and recommend to the City Council personnel rules and revisions and amendments to such rules. D. Prepare or cause to be prepared a position classification plan, including class specifications, and revisions of the plan. E. Have the authority to discipline employees in accordance with this chapter and the personnel rules of the City. F. Provide for the publishing or posting of notices of tests for positions in the competitive service; the receiving of applications therefor; the conducting and grading of tests; the certification of a list of all persons eligible for appointment to the appropriate position in the competitive service; and performing any other duty that may be required to administer the personnel system. G. The City Manager may delegate those portions of his/her responsibilities which he/she deems appropriate. SECTION 3. Section 2.75.040 of the SCMC is amended to read: The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all offices, positions and employments in the service of the City, except: A. Elective officers; B. The City Manager, Assistant or Deputy City Managers, and any Assistants to the City Manager; C. The City Attorney and any Assistant or Deputy City Attorneys; D. Members of appointive boards, commissions, and committees; E. All Department Directors and Division Managers; F. Persons engaged under contract to supply expert, professional, technical or any other services; G. Volunteer personnel; H. All Council -appointed officers; I. Emergency employees who are hired to meet the immediate requirements of any emergency condition, such as extraordinary fire, flood, or earthquake which threatens life or property; 2 5.a Packet Pg. 33 Employees, other than those listed elsewhere in this section, who are not employed in regular positions. "Employed in regular positions" means an employee hired into an indefinite term into a budgeted position, who is regularly scheduled to work no less than one thousand forty (1,040) hours per year, and has successfully completed the probationary period and been retained as provided in this chapter and the personnel rules; K. Any position primarily funded under a state or federal employment program; L. Any newly created position, which is designated at the time of its creation as being exempt from the competitive service; and M. The City Librarian and PTS Library Aide classifications are excluded from the competitive service. The classifications of Library Administrator, Senior Librarian, Librarian, and Library Assistant are included in the Competitive Service. N. Employees not included in the competitive service under this section shall serve at the pleasure of their appointing authority. They may be terminated or disciplined at will by the City Manager at any time, without any right of appeal. SECTION 4. Severability: 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 competent jurisdiction, such decision will not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council 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 5. Effective Date: This ordinance takes effect 30 days from the date of its adoption. SECTION 6. Publication: The City Clerk is directed to certify this ordinance and cause it to be published in the manner required by law. PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED ATTEST: CITY CLERK DATE: MAYOR , 2018. 5.a Packet Pg. 34 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss. CITY OF SANTA CLARITA I, Mary Cusick, City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance 18- was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 9th day of January 2018. That thereafter, said Ordinance was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 23rd day of January, 2018, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: ABSENT: COUNCILMEMEBERS: 4 CITY CLERK 5.a Packet Pg. 35