“Appointing power” means the officers of the City who, in their individual capacities, or as a board, commission or City Council, have the final authority to make the appointment to the position to be filled.

“Class” means all positions sufficiently similar in duties, authority, and responsibility, to permit grouping under a common title in the application with equity of common standards of selection, transfer, demotion and salary.

“Competitive service” means all positions of regular employment in the service of the City, except those specifically excluded by this chapter.

“Days” means calendar days unless otherwise stated.

“Demotion” means the movement of an employee from one class to another class having a lower maximum rate of pay.

“Examination” means selection techniques used to measure the relative capacities of the persons applying for positions within the competitive service.

“Layoff” means the separation of employees from the active work force due to lack of work or funds, or to the abolition of positions by the City Council for the above reasons or due to organizational changes.

“Part-time employee” means an employee in the competitive service who is employed by the City for less hours than those authorized for the regular full-time position.

“Position” means a specific group of duties and responsibilities in the competitive service of ongoing duration provided for in the City’s budget, whether occupied or vacant, which comprises the full-time or part-time employment of one person.

“Probationary period” means a working test period during which an employee is required to demonstrate their fitness for the position to which they are appointed by actual performance of the duties of the position.

“Promotion” means the movement of an employee from one class to another class having a higher maximum rate of pay.

“Regular employee” means an employee in the competitive service who has successfully completed a probationary period and has been retained as provided in this chapter.

“Reinstatement” means the reemployment without examination of a former regular employee.

“Suspension” means the temporary separation from the service of an employee without pay, for disciplinary purposes.

“Temporary employee” means a person appointed to a position of limited duration, limited frequency, or on a seasonal or intermittent basis.

“Transfer” means a change of an employee from one position to another position in the same class or in a comparable class with a substantially similar rate of pay. (Ord. 1062 § 14, 2022; Ord. 1030 § 2(2), 2018; Ord. 989 § 2, 2012; Ord. 519 § 2 (part), 1975)