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RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDDING
AMENDING ITS POSITION POLICY NO. 207.
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WHEREAS, on April 3, 1990, by Resolution No. 90-160, the City Council of
the City of Redding adopted a Position Policy for employees; and
WHEREAS, City Council wishes to amend the City's Position Policy No. 207
to give authority to the City Manager to fill a position held by an employee
receiving long-term disability benefit payments; and
WHEREAS, a copy of the proposed amended Council Policy is attached
hereto and incorporated herein by reference;
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Redding that the City's Policy No. 207, Position Policy, be amended as set
forth .in Council Policy No. 207 attached hereto.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was introduced and read
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Redding on the 5th day
of January, 1993, and was duly adopted at said meeting by the following vote:
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AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Anderson, Arness, Dahl, Kehoe & Moss
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
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CHARLIE MOSS, Mayor
City of Redding
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CONNIE STROHMAYER City Clerk R DALL A. HAYS, City Attorney
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iPOLICY 207 - POSITION POLICY
Resolution No. 90-160 adopted April 3, 1990
BACKGROUND
The Municipal Code grants certain administrative powers to the
City Manager. With regard to positions, Section 2 . 08 .060, Duties,
Paragraph B, states the City Manager has the following duties :
"To employ, discipline or remove all head of departments and
all subordinate officers and employees of the City, to
transfer employees from one department to another; and to
consolidate or combine offices, positions, departments or
units under his jurisdiction. "
Under this section, the Municipal Code authorizes the City Manager
to make adjustments to the positions of the City. In effect, this
section grants this authority as part of the City Manager' s
Administrative duties, thus enabling routine adjustments to be made
regarding the number of positions in the City, as well as to the
classification assigned to a position. It also provides for the
transfer of a position from one Department or Division to another.
It does not, however, authorize the City Manager to establish a new
position(s) unless it is offset by a cancelled position or is the
result of a consolidation of two or more positions.
Not specified in the Municipal Code, but included as part of the
position policy, is the administrative authority granted to the
City Manager to establish additional identical positions to
'I provide for: 11 the hiring of a replacement employee prior to the
separation of service of a current employee for transition
purposesv.L or 2) the continued performance of work assigned to an
employee determined to be disabled and authorized to receive long
term disability insurance benefits . Additional identical positions
are identical or equivalent to the incumbent' s position and are
limited to: a) sixty (60) days unless otherwise authorized by the
City Council for purpose 1 ) above: or b) the time frame a disabled
employee fills a budgeted position of the City for purpose 2)
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PURPOSE
To establish a Position Policy in accordance with the City of
Redding Municipal Code, Section 2 . 08 .060, Paragraph B.
POLICY
It is the policy of the City Council of the City of Redding:
THAT in accordance with the Municipal Code, Section 2 . 08 .060,
paragraph B, the City Manager shall have the authority to
administratively modify positions in the City of Redding as
follows:
1 . To transfer positions from one Department or Division to
another;
2 . To add/cancel positions;
3 . To establish or change the classification assigned to a
position;
4 . To establish additional identical positions for a replacement
employee for up to sixty (60) days; and
5 . To establish additional identical positions during the time
frame a disabled employee fills a budgeted position• and
56 . To consolidate positions .
FURTHER, it is the policy of the City Council of the City of
Redding:
THAT all position adjustments are subject to the availability
! of sufficient appropriations in the Budget to support the
modification and that all administrative adjustments shall be
reported to the City council on a quarterly basis.
PROCEDURE
Specific procedures to conform with the policy are provided in the
City of Redding Personnel Manual .
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