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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 153 Personnel Policy ORDINANCE NO. 153 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WINTER SPRINGS, FLORIDA REQUIRING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERSONNEL POLICY WITHIN THE CITY; CREATING A PERSONNEL POLICY COMMITTEE; ESTABLISHING ITS MEMBERSHIP AND DUTIES; CREATING A GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE; ESTABLISHING ITS MEMBERSHIP AND PROCEDURES; PROVIDING APPEALS; PROVIDING FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE PERSONNEL POLICY AND AMEND- MENTS THERETO BY RESOLUTION; CONFLICTS; SEVER- ABILITY AND EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City Council deems it to be in the best interest of the citizens of Winter Springs and the personnel of City employment to create a City Personnel Policy, and WHEREAS, the City needs to establish a Personnel Policy Committee to make periodic reviews, and report recommended changes or revisions to the policy to the Council, and WHEREAS, the City needs to establish procedures for selection of a Grievance Committee and a procedure for the hearing of grievances, NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF WINTER SPRINGS HEREBY ORDAINS: SECTION I. ORGANIZATION. The City Council of Winter Springs shall within ninety (90) days of the passage of this Ordinance adopt by Resolution, a Personnel Policy of the City which shall include a system for the recruiting, selecting, developing and maintaining an effective and responsive work force, and shall include policies and procedures for employee hiring and advancement, training and career development, job classifications, salary administration, retirement, fringe benefits, discipline, discharge and other related activities. The Personnel Policy adopted pursuant to this Ordinance shall be adopted and amended from time to time by Resolution duly passed by the City Council of Winter Springs, Florida. SECTION II. PERSONNEL POLICY COMMITTEE. (A) There is hereby established a Personnel Policy Committee consisting of the department heads of the City; two employees elected by the employees of the City and the Mayor or City Manager if a City Manager exists, or other elected official designated by the Council. (B) The duties and responsibilities of the Committee shall be as follows: (1) Advise the City Council on manpower utilization. (2) To recommend programs and amendments to the Personnel Policy which will improve employee effectiveness, including training, safety, health, counseling and welfare. (3) Investigate from time to time the operation and effect of this law and of the policies made thereunder and to report their findings and recommendations to the City Council, and (4) To make no less often than annually, a report to the City Council of its recommendations regarding the Personnel Policy which report shall be made no earlier than May 1st and no later than June 1st of each fiscal year. SECTION III. GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE. (A) There shall be a three-person Grievance Committee appointed to hear appeals. The membership of the Committee shall be one member to be selected by the heads of the Depart- ment, one member to be selected by the employee requesting the hearing, and the third member shall be selected by the City Clerk at random from the latest voter registration list of voters qualified to vote in Winter Springs. The citizen member selected may not be an elected or appointed member of any board of the City or an employee of the City, or a person related by consanguinity or marriage within the third degree to any of the above. The City Clerk shall select a citizen member at random as outlined above until she selects a member who shall serve, and the citizen member shall be Chairman of the Committee. -2- (B) The Grievance Committee shall have the initiative in any proceedings and may by a majority vote, call before it any member of any Department for investigation and if it finds sufficient grounds so to do, the Committee may request the City Council to take corrective action as to any member of any Department. (C) The Committee shall adopt such procedures in conducting any investigation as it may deem to be expeditious and proper so long as such procedures are intended to promote justice without delay, SECTION IV. CONFLICTS. This Ordinance shall not be construed to have the effect of repealing any existing Ordinance concerning the subject matter of this Ordinance, but the regu- lations established herein shall be supplemental and cumulative; however, in the case of a direct conflict with a provision or provisions of any existing Ordinance the provision which is more restrictive and imposes higher standards or requirements shall govern. SECTION V. SEVERABILITY. If any section, part of a section, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of the Ordinance is, for any reason, held or declared to be unconsti- tutional, inoperative, or void, such holding of invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of this Ordinance and it shall be construed to have been the legislative intent to pass this Ordinance without such unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative part therein, and the remainder of this Ordinance, after the exclusion of such part or parts, shall be deemed to be held valid as if this Ordinance, or any provisions thereof, shall be held inapplicable to any person, group of persons, property, kind of property, circumstances, or set of circum- stances, such holding shall not affect the application hereof to any other person, property or circumstances. SECTION VI. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon passage and adoption. -3- PASSED AND ADOPTED this 25 day of July, 1977. FIRST READING July 11, 1977 SECOND READING July 25, 1977 CITY OF WINTER SPRINGS, FLORIDA BY Troy J. Piland MAYOR ATTEST: Mary T. Norton City Clerk CITY OF WINTER SPRINGS FLORIDA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the City Council of the City of Winter Springs, Florida, that said City Council will hold a public hearing on Monday, July 11, 1977, at 7:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible to consider an Ordinance entitled as follows: AN ORDINANCE of THE CITY OF WINTER SPRINGS, FLORIDA REQUIRING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERSONNEL POLICY WITHIN THE CITY; CREATING A PERSONNEL POLICY COM- MITTTEE; ESTABLISHING ITS MEMBERSHIP AND DUTIES; CREATING A GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE; PROVIDING APPEALS; PROVIDING FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE PERSONNEL POLICY AND AMENDMENTS THERETO BY RESOLUTION; CONFLICTS; SEVERABILITY AND EFFECTIVE DATE. A copy of said Ordinance shall be available at the office of the City Clerk of the City of Winter Springs, Florida, for all persons desiring to examine same. All interested parties are invited to attend and be heard. THIS NOTICE is to be published in the Evening Herald, a newspaper of general circulation in said City, one (1) time at least fifteen (15) days prior to the time of the public hear- ing. DATED this 14th day of June, 1977. CITY OF WINTER SPRINGS, FLORIDA By : Mary T. Norton, City Clerk GARY E. MASSEY, ESQUIPE Winter Park Federal Buildang 355 E. Semoran Boulevard Altamonte Springs, Florida 32701 Attorney for City