1. “Acting employee” means a permanent employee holding a different position under an acting appointment.

2. “Actual service” means time engaged as a permanent employee in the performance of the duties of a position including leave of absence with pay.

3. “Advancement” means a salary increase within the limits of a salary range established for a class.

4. “Allocation” means the assignment of a job to a class or position in accordance with the duties performed and/or the salary range assigned to a class or position.

5. “Appointing officer/appointive power” means the department head or his authorized representative.

6. “Appointment” means the acceptance by a person of a position in city service.

7. “Board” means the civil service board of the city for the miscellaneous departments, police department or fire department.

8. “Break-in-service” means any interruption in continuous service, except for approved leaves of absence or call to military service in the Armed Forces of the United States.

9. “Callback time” means the time when an employee is directed by his or her department or division to return to work to perform additional services after the normal work period.

10. “City physician” means a medical doctor chosen by each of the city’s civil service boards.

11. “Civil service rules” means the rules and regulations formulated by the miscellaneous, police, and fire civil service boards.

12. “Class” means a group of positions which are sufficiently alike in general duties and responsibilities to warrant the use of the same title, class (job) specification, and salary range, and the application of common standards of selection, transfer and promotion.

13. “Classification” means the act of grouping a position or positions into a class.

14. “Class number” means an identification number assigned to each class (job) specification.

15. “Class specification” means a written description of a class or position which includes class title, class number, a general statement of nature of work, duties, responsibilities, and minimum or desirable qualifications.

16. “Class title” means a brief descriptive designation of each class or position within the city service.

17. “Compensatory time” means equivalent time off granted to an employee for overtime worked or for extra service rendered.

18. “Continuous service” means employment by permanent employees without interruption except for approved leaves of absence. Reinstatement or re-employment does not make service continuous.

19. “Demotion” means the movement of an employee from one class or position to another class or position having a lower maximum rate of pay.

20. “Department” means a major administrative unit within the city.

21. “Discharge” means separation from city service for cause.

22. “Disciplinary action” means reprimand, suspension, reduction in salary or discharge.

23. “Division” means a unit of a department.

24. “Employee” means and includes any person who has been employed by a duly authorized appointive power to work for the city on a salary, daily wage, or hourly pay, and who has not been discharged from such service.

25. “Employee organization” means any organization which includes employees of the city, and which has as one of its primary purposes representing such employees in their relations with the city.

26. “Employment status” means appointment to a position as:

27. “Grievance” is any dispute concerning interpretation or application of the personnel and compensation ordinance or of rules or regulations governing personnel practices or working conditions, or of the practical consequences of the city’s rights; decision on wages, hours, and other terms or conditions of employment.

28. “Increment date” means the date at which step adjustment was last made for time-in-grade.

29. “Layoff” means separation from a seasonal, part-time, or permanent position because of work load, economy, lack of funds, or because the position has been abolished.

30. “Leave of absence” means approval to be absent from duty with or without pay for a specified period.

31. “Part-time employee” means a person employed in any seasonal or permanent position for a daily work period of less than the normal working day.

32. “Permanent employee” means an employee who has successfully completed his probationary period and has been appointed to permanent civil service status.

33. “Personnel director” means the city manager or his authorized representative.

34. “Position” means all classifications of employment provided by the compensation ordinance, whether occupied or vacant, permanent or seasonal.

35. “Probationary period” means a working test period of six months’ duration, except for employees in the police department which shall be twelve months, during which an employee is required to demonstrate his fitness for the position to which he is appointed by actual performance of the duties of the position.

36. “Promotion” means the assignment or reclassification of an employee from one class or position to another class or position having a higher salary range.

37. “Public safety employee” means police and fire safety personnel.

38. “Reclassification” means the changing of a position from one class to a different class.

39. “Reinstatement” means reappointment after a break in service to a position within a class formerly held.

40. “Salary range” means specific pay rates assigned to a class title.

41. “Salary schedule” means a list of class titles assigned to specific salary ranges.

42. “Salary step” means five salary levels within a specific salary range.

43. “Seasonal employee” means employment to a class for seasonal needs without civil service status.

44. “Section” means a unit of a division.

45. “Separation” means leaving a position for any reason and includes transfer and reassignment.

46. “Service” means employment by the city.

47. “Suspension” means the temporary removal of an employee from duty.

48. “Temporary employee” means an employee filling a permanent position without civil service status.

49. “Termination” means the separation of an employee from city service. Termination may be by death, discharge, layoff, resignation, retirement or work completion.

50. “Time-in-grade” means the length of time a permanent employee shall have spent in his class or position.

51. “Time-in-service” means the length of time a permanent employee has served on continuous city service beginning with his probationary appointment to a permanent position.

52. “Transfer” means the change of an employee from one department or division of city service to another.

53. “Unclassified service” means all elected officers, all members of boards, commissions, and all temporary and seasonal employees. (Ord. 2782 § 2, 1982; Ord. 2589 § 1, 1980; prior code § 3.14.050)