AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment, commonly referred to as the Third Quarter 2020 Employment Ordinance; returning positions to the civil service system; and establishing a new title and corresponding rate of pay; all by a 2/3 vote of the City Council.
Agenda Item three Council Bill 119903 relating to city employment, commonly referred to as the third quarter 2020 employment ordinance, returning positions to the Civil Service System and establishing a new title and corresponding rate of pay all by a two thirds vote of the City Council. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I will move to pass Council Bill 119903. Is there a second? Second. Thank you so much. It's been moved and seconded to pass the bill as sponsor of the bill. I will go ahead and address it and then open up the Florida. Any comments or questions? Colleagues, as I mentioned this morning, this legislation does two things. First, it returns eight positions to the civil service system. And second, it creates a new job title in the Legislative Department. Central staff has not identified any issues or concerns with the transmitted legislation. With regard to the eight positions, SAIL Department Human Resources Director Bobby Hughes has determined that the work performed by these eight positions no longer meet the criteria for civil service exemption, and he recommends returning the positions to civil service. The October 2nd memo, drafted by central staff analyst Carina Bull, provides a table of the list of these positions. By way of summary, these positions are in various departments, including the Office of Planning and Community Development, Seattle Office for Civil Rights, Department of Education and Early Learning Finance and Administrative Services. Office of Arts and Culture. Seattle Department of Transportation and the Community Police Commission. Of the eight positions, only two positions at Ascot and one position at PCD are currently filled. The remaining positions are vacant. The impact of these positions is that they are returned to the civil service system, which means that the employees in these positions now or in the future will be afforded a range of additional job protections, including merit based hiring and promotions, probationary periods of employment, opportunity to correct performance issues and for cause termination rather than at will employment. The additional rules related to this reclassification are detailed in Ms.. Bowles October 2nd memorandum. The second component of this bill relates to the Legislative Department. This legislation also accepts our Director Hume's recommendation to create a new job title of manager legislative. This new job title would delineate responsibilities among professional and managerial staff that currently have the same title of strategic advisor and creates an opportunity for career progression and succession planning within the Council Central Staff Division. In conclusion, this legislation is cost neutral. The executive has indicated that returning these positions to the civil service system would not increase costs because the designated positions would remain at the same pay rate after the proposed change. In other words, this legislation changes the job protections for these positions, but does not modify the existing ranges of available pay for the for the eight positions I've described with regard to the new job title in the Legislative Department, the pay ban for that position is parallel to that of a strategic advisor in the Legislative Department. This legislation does not modify the pay band available for this job title creation. Any additional costs for this job title can and will be absorbed by the Legislative Department's existing budget authority and would not require a new appropriation of funds moving forward. I'm happy to hear any additional comments or take any questions on the bill. Hearing. No additional comments will work. Please. Kolawole on the passage of the bill. Oscar I. PETERSON Hi. Sergeant. Yes. Strauss Yes. Purple? Yes. LEWIS Yes. MORALES That's. President Gonzalez s eight in favor and unopposed. Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation? All right. Report of land use to neighborhoods committee item four. Will the clerk please read item four into the record? Three report at the L.A. Sun has committed to and four counts about 119877 have waited so long due to a few decision and meeting procedures, temporarily modifying suspensions, procedures and titles 23 and 25% on this proposal. The committee recommends that the bill passes amended with a desire to report with the staff together.