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AMENDING ARTICLE 18 OF THE RULES
AND REGULLATIONS OF THE CIVIL SERVICE
BOARD OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS, SAME HAVING BEEN ADOPTED MAY
20, 1940, AND APPROVED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL MAY 21, 1940; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, on the 28th day of October, 1946, the Civil Service
Board, at an official meeting, unanimously voted to request the Council
to approve an amendment to Article 18 of the Civil Service Rules and
Regulations which governs efficiency ratings of employees subject to
Civil Service regulations;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
Section 1. That, in accordance with the request of the Civil
Service Board, Article 15 of the Rules and Regulations of the Civil Service
Board be amended to read as follows:
*Section 1. The City Manager shall require all directors
of departments, and their administrative subordinates
having employees subject to Civil Service regulations, to
make quarterly reports on the efficiency of said employees
on the form or forms provided for such reports by the said
Civil Service Board.
Section 2. The Civil Service Board shall ascertain the
efficiency rating of the various employees of the depart-
ments as determined try quarterly reports submitted by the
directors of said departments and immediate superiors of
said employees and shall keep a record of such rating. The
highest standard of efficiency shall be indicated by a grade
of 100%. Any grade below 65% shall be regarded as unsatis-
factory.
Section 5. The Civil Service Board shall, by written order
recorded in the minutes, prescribe subjects or factors to
be used in determining efficiency markings, provide a
schedule of merits and demerits based upon attendance,
discipline, quality of service and initiative and shall
assign weights to such factors:
Section 4. The Civil Service BoardAretain* to itself the
authority to enter markings on efficiency records and may
review and amend any efficiency ratings submitted.
The efficiency rating records in any of the classes or
cases over which the Civil Service Board retains exclusive
jurisdiction shall be subject only to investigation by
the Board, City Manager, the department head concerned, the
immediate superior, and the employee or his representative.
Section 5. Any case of failure of a classified employee to
maintain a satisfactory efficiency rating shall be sufficient
grounds for dismissal of that employee. When an average grade
of less than 65% on the last two efficiency ratings has been
recorded for any employee in the classified service, the Board
shall call that employee before it and give him an opportunity
to explain his low grade; if no satisfactory explanation is
made, the Board may recommend to the City Manager that such
employee be discharged, suspended, or demoted, and if the City
Manager disagrees with the recommendation, he will promptly
furnish the Board with a written memorandum setting out his
reasons therefor and his decision shall be final. Before
resorting to the steps necessary for discharge, or demotion,
the Board shall ask the Secretary in cooperation with the
City Manager to make an investigation to ascertain the cause
of the continued low rating. If it is possible to correct
the low ratings by one or several adjustments or changes
in working conditions, these recommendations shall be included
in the Secretary's report to the Board, which shall proceed in
such manner as it deems beat for the service.
The ratings may also be used to influence decisions on (1) In-
creases in pay, (2) Promotional examinations, (5) Re- employ-
ment, reinstatement or transfer, (4) Reduction of forces."
Section 2. The fact that the authority granted herein to the Civil
Service Board is immediately necessary for the efficient administration of the
classified civil service of this city in that it is necessary that such a
standard be maintained at all times creates a public emergency and imperative
public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter Rule providing that
no Ordinance or Resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is intro-
duced, and that such Ordinance or Resolution shall be read at three several
meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared that such
emergency and imperative necessity exist, and requested that said Charter
Rule be suspended, that this Ordinance be passed finally on the date of its
introduction, and that this Ordinance take effect and be in full force and
effect from and after its pasaage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 04'� day of December, 1946.
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MAYOR, City of Corpus Christi,
T e
ATTEST: x a s
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FFOFW: 71
City Attorney
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Corpus Christi, Texas
4 , 1946
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the
foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and an 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 several meetings of the City Council, I, therefore, hereby
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.
Respectfuullllly,� �
MAYOR, City of Corpus Christi,
T e x a s
The Charter rule Was suspended by the following vote:
Robert T. Wilson
Wesley E. Seale
AbsEe
John A. Ferris
—
George R. Clark, Jr.
/.2—;
t
R. R. Henry
Q„""—
The above Ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Robert T. Wilson
Wesley E. Seale
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John A. Ferris
George R. Clark, Jr.
R. R. Henry
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