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COUNCIL POLICY•
SUBJECT RESOLUTION POLICY EFFECTIVE PAGE
NUMBER NUMBER DATE
POSITION POLICY 90-160 207 04/03/90 1
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 depart-
ments 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 jurisdic-
tion . "
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 adjust-
ments to be made regarding the number of positions in the City,
S 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
provide for : 1 ) the hiring of a replacement employee prior to
the separation of service of a current employee for transition
purposes ; 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 posi-
tion 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) above .
Amended on January 5 , 1993 by Resolution No. 93-11
PURPOSE
To establish a Position Policy in accordance with the City of
• Redding Municipal Code , Section 2 . 08 . 060 , Paragraph B.
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CITY OF REDDING, CALIFORNIA
COUNCIL POLICY
• SUBJECT RESOLUTION POLICY EFFECTIVE PAGE
NUMBER NUMBER DATE
POSITION POLICY 90-160 207 04/03/90 2
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 replace-
",
ment employee for up to sixty (60) days;
5 . To establish additional identical positions during the time
frame a disabled employee fills a budgeted position; and
6 . To consolidate positions .
Amended on January 5 , 1993 by Resolution No. 93-11
FURTHER, it is the policy of the City Council of the City
of Redding:
THAT all position adjustments are subject to the availabili-
ty 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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