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CivilServiceBoard | 2012-08-08 | 3 | for the employee involved and staff. The Board should do their job as narrowly and correctly as they can and not undertake responsibilities of the experts at hand, (e.g., bargaining unit representatives, lawyers, or City Council). Page 14 of Section 7-3, refers to the section where a Board member may be eliminated from their position should they undertake the responsibilities outside of their scope. President Peeler stated that during her commission term in Berkeley, the Board was given a choice to either hear the case themselves or have the case be heard by an attorney, but with the City of Alameda the Board has an attorney as an advisor. What is the attorney there for and what is his/her role? Assistant City Attorney Il Sierra stated that the Board may be faced with questions of evidence; the Board is not a governing body of administrative procedures; the Board is free to accept any form of evidence presented. If someone presents the Board with hearsay, they can hear it if they wish. The City Attorney's job is to ensure that the Board takes action according to their limited roles and responsibilities of hearing and weighing all information. Another responsibility of the Board's advisor is to ensure that all confidential matters that need not be discussed with the Board in a public forum be immediately stopped. Ms. Sierra stated that she is the advisor assigned to assist the Civil Service Board, as she is the advisor to Human Resource along with City Attorney Janet Kern who will also be assisting the Board at times. Human Resources Director Brock-Cohn stated that an outside counsel has been appointed as City Attorney Kern was advising the City and they needed someone different to be advising the Board. Assistant City Attorney II Sierra stated that the Board should make sure that a fair process is conducted and once that is done, the Board has done its job. The Board's job is to direct policy, it is staff's purview to carry out that policy. Mr. Robles-Wong stated that a responsibility that the Board has is to make recommendations to change the rules. The Board applies the rules and ensures that they are in compliance. If the Board feels that there are any changes that need to be made to the Rules, then the Board should/can make a recommendation to change the Rules. During Mr. Robles-Wong's term on the Board, there were only two rules that were changed Page -3- G:Personnel\CSBV Minutes/201 Minutes/2012-08-08 Special CSB Minutes-Draft | CivilServiceBoard/2012-08-08.pdf |