The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-30
LEGAL ADVERTISING

officers and employees of the city court; Co members of advisory boards and committees appointed by the city manager; (d) the corp oration counsel, commissioners of finance, safety, health and welfare, and works, the superintendent of schools and the registrars of voters and their deputies and assistants and (e) election officials serving for a period of less than three weeks in connection with any particular elec- ton. The teaching service shall comprise the principals. assistants and teachers supervising or giving instruction in any of the schools of the city or outside of said schools, if such instruction be given under the supervision of the superinten- dent of schools and the board of ed- ucation. The classified service shall include all other offices or positions existing at the time of the passage of this act and not hereby discon- tinued or abolished and all offices thereafter created. The classified service is divided into two parts which shall be designated as the competitive division and the non- competitive division. The non-com- petitive division shall comprise (a) unskilled, manual labor and (b) po- sitions or classes of positions for which the board of finance, by unanimous vote of all of its mem- bers, shall decide it is not practice able to determine the relative merit and fitness of applicants by compe- titive examination. The competitive division shall include all other of- fees or positions in the classified service. The board of finance shall designate the positions or classes of positions which shall be in the non- competitive division as part of the first classification plan provided for the city and thereafter no position or class of positions shall be placed in the non competitive division un- til after a public hearing, unani- nous vote of approval by all mem- bers of the board of finance and approval by the city manager. The board of finance may, at any time, change a position or class of posi- tions from the non-competitive to the competitive divisin.
 Sec. 195. Personnel Duties of Board of Finance. The board of fi- nance shall: CD After public hear ing, adopt and amend rules and regulations for the administration of this article of the charter which shall have the force and effect of law, upon approval by a majority vote of the council, including such classification plans for employees in the classified service, together with rules for their administration as may be recommended by the per- sonnel director, after thorough sur- vey of the personnel and depart mental organizations included in such plan or plans; CD after public hearing, adopt annually compen- sation plan for the classified service as provided in section 197 hereof; (3 make investigations, either on petition of a citizen or of its own motion, concerning the enforcement and effect of this article of the charter, require observance of it's provisions and the rules and regu- lations made hereunder; (4 hear and determine complaints or ap- peals respecting the administrative work of the personnel department, appeals upon the allocation of posi- tions or concerning promotions, the rejection of an applicant for admis- sion to an examination and such other matters as may be referred to 1t by the personnel director and (5)
 make such Investigations as may be
 requested by the city manager or
 the council and report thereon.
 Sec. 196. Duties of Personnel Di- rector. The personnel director shall: CD Attend the regular and special meetings of the board of finance except special meetings at which no matters relating to personnal are scheduled for discussion or action 1; CD appoint, under and subject to the provisions of this article, such employees of the personnel bureau as shall be necessary to carry out its provisions; (3) secure the temporary services of such examiners, experts and special assistants as may be me- cessary to carry out the provisions of this article; (4) supervise and di- rect the work of such employees and assistants; (5) prepare and recom- mend rules and regulations for the administration of this article of the charter, administer such rules and regulations and propose amend ments thereto; (6) ascertain and record the duties and responsibili- ties appertaining to all positions in the classified service, classify and periodically reclassify such positions, and prepare an annual compensa- tior plan therefor in the manner hereinafter provided; CD provide for, formulate and hold competitive tests to determine the relative quail ifications of persons who seek em- ployment in or promotion within the classified service and as a result thereof establish employment and unemployment lists for the various classes or positions; (8 on notice from an appointing authority that a position to which such authority makes appointments is vacant and its request for certification of names for appointment, certify the name of the person highest on the appro- priate unemployment or employ ment list, provided an additional name may be requested and certi- fled for each additional position when more than one appointment is to be made, taking the names first from the unemployment list, togeth- CT with their rating on such list; 60 establish records of performance and system of service ratings, based on records of attendance, per- formance, conduct and output of each employee in the classified ser- vice, designed to reflect his worth to the city; to be used in determin- ing increases and decreases in sal- aries, discharges, promotions, sus- pensions, demotions, order of lay- offs and unemployment and for other purposes: (10) keep such rec ords as may be necessary for the | a- -a-L- AN- 4 f-f-