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CivilServiceBoard | 2012-08-08 | 2 | D City Council. City Charter Article 7, the City Manager's role, explains that just like the Human Resources Director's role is to administer and execute policies and undertakings formulated by the CSB, the City Manager administers and executes policies formulated by the City Council. The City Manager's job is to also appoint, discipline and remove officers and employees of the City and she/he is the sole person responsible for appointing people through the Civil Service System who will carry out those duties. City Charter Article 13 states that the Civil Service System shall be established by ordinance. There are two ordinances that discuss the Civil Service System (Ordinance 3011 and Ordinance 2130) where the purpose and responsibilities of the Board are outlined. Ordinance 3011, talks about the role of Human Resources staff and the Human Resources Director within Section 6 and 7. The responsibilities listed within Section 7 are the job of the Human Resources Department: Preparation of the classification plan, reclassification, class specification, review of employment standards and qualifications. The Board's job is to ensure that the Civil Service system is a good and fair system. The Board has the power to look at those rules and look at those policies and make sure that nothing is going amiss. For example, if a classification is so narrowly written, you as a Board member can say "no, you can't do that. That is too specific." The Board's job is to ensure that it is a fair system and is broadly tailored to attract quality applicants that will fit the needs of the job. City Council's role, according to the Charter is to establish and abolish offices and positions of employment and fix compensation. In terms of how many people are allotted to a certain department that is the City Council's job. According to Ordinance 2130, the purpose and objective of the Civil Service Rules is to set forth procedures which insure a fair and equitable system of personnel management in City government and to define the privileges, obligations, rights and restrictions which are equally imposed upon all Civil Service employees within the City of Alameda. Also, to ensure fair employment practices and that the City of Alameda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Assistant City Attorney II Sierra stated that she is at the meeting to answer the Board's questions and introduced former Civil Service Board President, Michael Robles-Wong. Former President Robles-Wong explained that the main issue for Council and Boards is that they are a policy making body. The City has staff to implement the policy. The Civil Service Board has the power to create policies and the City Attorney is there to assist the Board in doing so. Mr. Robles-Wong stated that he was at the meeting to talk about certain issues that he had to deal with that may apply to the Board's current circumstances. During his 33 years of public service (City of Berkeley, BART, AC Transit, and Hayward Area Recreation District) three quarters of the time he was involved in civil service board responsibilities. The main staff duties and hiring responsibilities are separate from the duties of the Civil Service Board as hearing officers. The Board should not write or evaluate written examinations or Page -2- G:Personnel\CSBV Minutes/201 Minutes/2012-08-08 Special CSB Minutes-Draft | CivilServiceBoard/2012-08-08.pdf |