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The Civil Service Commission acts in an administrative capacity for the City Council on problems concerning personnel administration; makes, amends, and repeals rules and regulations for the classified service; hears appeals submitted by any person in the classified service relative to any situation connected with his/her employment status or condition of employment; holds hearings and makes recommendations to the City Council on the adoption or revision of the position classification plan; recommends all salaries and ranges for new classifications in the classified service;appoints the Personnel Director. QualificationsMembers shall be residents of the City of Napa for a continuous period of at least one year immediately preceding appointment to said Commission, shall be qualified electors of the City and shall serve without compensation. No person shall be eligible to be appointed who holds any salaried public office or employment in the service of the City of Napa nor shall any member, while a member of the Commission or for a period of one year after he/she has ceased for any reason to be a member, be eligible for appointment to any classified position in the service of the City. Duties & Responsibilities 1. To make, amend and repeal rules and regulations for the classified service, which, upon the approval of the City Council, shall have the force and effect of supplementing this section and revisions and amendments thereof. All rules and regulations so made shall be consistent with the provisions of this section. 2. To act in an administrative capacity to the City Council on problems concerning personnel administration. 3. As provided by this section and by rules hereafter adopted by the Civil Service Commission, to hear appeals submitted by any person in the classified service relative to any situation connected with his employment status or condition of employment. Upon the conclusion of any such hearing the Civil Service Commission shall certify its findings to the City Council, and except for bad faith or lack of evidence, such findings shall be final. In such an event of bad faith or lack of evidence, the Council shall be the final review board to whom an employee may appeal under this section; the Council's decision shall then be final. 4. In any investigation or hearing conducted by the Commission, it shall have the power to examine witnesses under oath and compel their attendance or the production of evidence before it by subpoenas issued in the name of the City and attested by the City Clerk. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to cause all such subpoenas to be served and refusal of a person to attend or to testify in answer to such a subpoena shall subject said person to prosecution in the same manner set forth by law or failure to appear before the City Council in response to a subpoena issued by the City Council. Each member of the Civil Service Commission shall have the power to administer oaths to witnesses. 5. To hold hearings and make recommendations to the City Council on the adoption or revision of the position classification plan. The City Council may adopt a position classification plan or plans and class specifications and revisions thereof from time to time within the scope as recommended by the Commission and allocate and re allocate positions in the classified service to classes within the scope as recommended by the Commission. The Commission shall recommend all salaries to the Council for action. Membership Consists of five (5) members: two (2) appointed by the City Council, two (2) elected by classified employees at an election to be conducted by the City Clerk; and one (1) appointed by the other four Commission members. Terms are for a period of three (3) years. Meetings The Civil Service Commission meets regularly on the third Monday of each month in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 955 School Street. Commission Liaison: Carol Cunningham, City of Napa Personnel Department (707) 257-7720 |