East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1955-12-15

AN EMERGENCY ORDI-
NANCE TO AMEND SEC
TION 8 OF ORDINANCE NO. i.
1910, PASSED JANUARY q,
1918, AND BEING THE CIVIL
SERVICE ORDINANCE, so
CALLED, OF THE CITY OF
EAST CLEVELAND; AND
REPEATING ORDINANCE
NO. 2217, PASSED MARCH
Is, 1927, AND ORDINANCE
NO. 3474, PASSED SEPTEM-
BER y, 1889.
WHEREAS, an emergency exists
for the immediate preservation of
the public peace, property, health
and safety, the emergency being to
change the provisions of Ordinance
No. 1910 to conform with amend
ments to the Revised Code Of the
State of Ohio.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE 1T OR
DAINED by the Commission of the
City of East Cleveland, Ohio, four
fiiths of all members elected thereto
concurTing.
SECTION l.. That Section 3 of
Ordinance No. 1910, passed Janu-
ary q, 1918, and entitled: IAN
Emergency Ordinance providing for
the Civil Service classification of all
city employees, fixing the powers
and duties of the Civil Service Com
mission and prescribing rules and
regulations governing the classified
Civil Service, the emergency there
for arising from the need for the
immediate preservation of public
peace, property, health and safety"
which Section 8, as amended by
Ordinance No. 3474, passed Septem-
Der y, 1889. reads as follows:
SECTION 8: All appointments
and promotions in the classified
civil service of the city shall be made
according to merit and fitness to
be ascertained by competitive eXami-
nations. All employees appointed
or now on probation in the classi-
fled civil service, except cadet fire
men, shall be upon probation for a
period of two years from and after
their original appointment. Cadet
firemen appointed in the classified
civil service shall be upon probation
for a period of five years from and
after their original appointment,
three of said years being the period
during which they serve as cadet
firemen, and two of said years being
the period during which they serve
a regular firemen. The City Mana
ger shall. after a cadet fireman has
served three years, promote said
cadet fireman to the rank of regu-
lar fireman or discharge him. All
employees appointed in the classi-
fled civil service shall be subject to
removal by the City Manager during
their probationary period as above
set forth without appeal to the Civil
Service Commission whose decision
shall be final.
All employees promoted in the
classified civil service shall be sub
ject to demotion by the City Man
ager to the grade or rank from
which they were promoted at any
time within one year from the date
Of their promotion without appeal
10 the Civil Service Commission
whose decision shall be final. Any
advancement from lower grade or
rank to a higher grade or rank in
Guiding advancements TO or within
the first grade of regular firemen
and policemen based upon service
requirements shall constitute a pro-
motion within the meaning Of this
ordinance. The City Manager shall
nave authority at any time in addi-
ton TO the above to remove or de-
mote any employee in the classified
civil service subject to appeal Of the
Civil Service Commission whose de-
Cision shall be final"
he and the same is hereby amended
to read as follows:
SECTION 3: All appointments in
the classified civil service of the
City shall be made according to merit
and fitness to be ascertained by COM
petitive examination. All original
appointments shall be for a proba-
tionary period, not to exceed three
months, to be fixed by the rules of
the Civil Service Commission, and no
appointment is final until the ap-
pointee has satisfactorily served his
probationary period. At the end of
ne probationary period. the City
Manager shall transmit to the Civil
Service Commission a record of the
PmDlOVpe'S service and If Such SerV-