Sec. 11-63. - Compensation of employees.

(a)

Under direction of the mayor and in consultation with the director of finance, the personnel director shall, as soon as practicable after the adoption of the classification plan, prepare a pay plan showing for each class of position in the classified service minimum and maximum salary rates and such intermediate rates as he deems desirable. In arriving at such rates he shall take into consideration the advice and suggestions of the appointing authority and department heads, prevailing rates for comparable service in other public employment and in private business, relative difficulty and responsibility, usual training required, work hazards, opportunity for advancement and the city's financial policies, conditions and appropriations.

(b)

The mayor shall submit the pay plan and the rules for its administration to the council for adoption. The council after public hearing, may adopt the plan and its rules with or without amendment. All such amendments shall apply uniformly to all positions within the same class. If the salary of any classified employee exceeds the maximum rate established initially in the pay plan for the class to which he is assigned, the salary of such employee shall remain unchanged until the position of such employee is vacated or until such time as the pay plan is amended to a maximum rate of pay greater than his salary. Thereafter an employee shall not be paid a salary higher than the maximum or lower than the minimum rate of pay established for the class to which he is assigned, provided that an incumbent city employee having more than 15 years of service with the city on the effective date of this chapter, shall not be prevented from receiving future pay increases at such times as blanket pay increases may be granted for all classes of employees.

(c)

The pay plan may be amended from time to time as circumstances require in accordance with subsections (a) and (b) of this section.

(d)

All regularly employed personnel of the city shall be entitled to health care benefits, including family coverage, as provided by their respective collective bargaining agreements. Employees not covered by a collective bargaining agreement and who are eligible to receive health care benefits shall be provided comparable coverage.

(e)

Protective clothing, uniforms, gear and such other distinctive clothing that may be required by the city to be worn, utilized or necessary in the performance of specific functions shall be furnished by the city.

(f)

Each department of the city service shall furnish the director of finance a signed copy of each periodic payroll not later than three days following the expiration of the payroll period concerned. No officer of the city shall issue a check for payment of or pay any person holding or claiming to hold a position in the classified service unless the mayor or his authorized agent shall have first certified that the persons named on the payroll or account of such compensation have been appointed and are employed in accordance with the provisions of the Charter and this division.

(Rev. Ords. 1987, § 11-63; Ch. 877, § I, 6-6-23)

Editor's note— The ordinance from which this chapter derives was adopted April 19, 1960.