§ 72. Civil service rules.

The administration of the classified service of the city, including the employment or appointment of all persons in the classified civil service and their probation, and promotion, shall be prescribed, as far as practicable, by rules and regulations to be known as the civil service rules.

The director shall, within six months after this Charter takes effect, prepare such rules and recommend their adoption to the commission. After a public hearing thereon, the commission shall approve or reject the rules wholly or in part, or modify them, and approve them as modified. Rules, and any amendments thereto, which are approved by the commission or on which it takes no action within sixty days after they are recommended by the director, shall be given to the city manager for presentation to the council, together with whatever recommendations he may desire to make. Rules and amendments thereto shall become effective when approved by the council or on the tenth day after submission if, prior thereto, the council shall not have rejected them. Thereafter the board shall have power to amend, repeal, or add to the rules on the recommendation of the director, or on its own initiative, subject to the requirement of a public hearing and all the other subsequent steps of procedure required herein for adoption of the original rules. Copies of rules and amendments thereto shall be transmitted by the director to the council, the city manager and to the director of each department, and shall be made available to all officers and employees in the classified civil service of the city.

The rules shall include:

(1)

A provision that employment, promotion, suspension, reduction or removal shall be upon the basis of education, experience, intelligence, general and specialized knowledge, ability and willingness to work as demonstrated by competitive tests and service ratings;

(2)

A procedure by which any officer or employee without further competitive test may be transferred from a position in a given class to another position in the same class or to a position in a different class for which he is qualified and for which no higher maximum rate of pay has been established;

(3)

A provision for fixing hours of work, checking attendance, payments for overtime, establishing training courses, determining the order of lay off when forces are reduced because of lack of work or funds, and handling annual, sick, and special leave of absence with or without pay or with reduced pay;

(4)

A system of service ratings designed to reflect the merit of each person in the classified civil service;

(5)

Such other provisions as may be required by the council.