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HomeMy WebLinkAbout13725 ORD - 05/11/1977• JKH:vp:5/11/77:1st . AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD BY ADDING TO ARTICLE FOUR, SUSPENSIONS AND APPEALS, A NEW SECTION, TO BE DESIGNATED SECTION 6. TO PRO FOR WRITTEN NOTICE TO CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE COMPLETED SIX MONTHS OF PROBATIONARY SERVICE, OF CONTEM- PLATED SUSPENSION OR DEMOTION AND TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITY FOR SAID EMPLOYEES TO REBUT THE CHARGES; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, the Civil Service Board has recommended that the City Council approve an amendment to the Civil Service Rules and Regulations so as to provide that no classified employee who has completed six months of probationary service shall be temporarily or indefinitely suspended or demoted for disciplinary reasons unless such employee has first been given written notice of the reasons for such suspension or demotion and an effective opportunity to rebut: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That, in accordance with the recommendation of the Civil Service Board, Article Four of the Rules and Regulations of the Civil Service Board, as amended, be and the same is hereby amended by adding a new section to be designated as Section 6, to hereafter read as follows: Section 6: No classified employee who has completed six months of probationary service shall be temporar- ily or indefinitely suspended, nor shall any such employee be demoted for disciplinary reasons, unless that employee has first been given written notice of the reasons for such suspension or demotion and an effective opportunity to rebut those reasons within a reasonable time after the occurrence of the last act relied upon as a reason for such suspension or demotion." SECTION 2. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith shall be and are repealed to the extent of such conflict. SECTION 3. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction It shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of this City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision hereof be given full force an ect for its purpose, RoF 13725 90 SECTION 4. The fact that the authority granted herein to the Civil Service Board is immediately necessary for the efficient administra- tion of the classified civil service system of this City creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction but that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared such emergency and necessity to exist, and having requested the suspension of the Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the 11A day of MAY, 1977. ATTEST: -city T y Secretary YOR T E CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS APPROVED: DAY OF MAY, 1977: J. BRUCE YCOCK, Y ATTOR EY BY: ty A0orney Corpus Christi, Texas jf day of 19—n— TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the City Council; I, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Jason Luby Eduardo de Ases David Diaz Ruth Gill Bob Gulley Gabe Lozano, Sr. Edward L. Sample — vle—�Y The above ordinance was passed by the ollowing vote: Jason Luby Eduardo de Ases David Diaz Ruth Gill Bob Gulley Gabe Lozano, Sr. Edward L. Sample 13'7.