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AMENDING CODE OF ORDINANCES, CHAPTER 39, PERSONNEL, ARTICLE
III EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION AND CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM, TO
REVISE SECTION 39-303 BY DELETING PROVISION TO MAINTAIN 5%
DIFFERENTIAL ABOVE EMPLOYEES SUPERVISED BY SELECT POSITIONS
IN PAY PLAN 400; TO REVISE SECTION 39-304 BY ADDING CITY
AUDITOR'S OFFICE; TO REVISE SECTIONS 39-329, 39-332, 39-345, AND 39-
347 REGARDING VACATION LEAVE; TO REVISE SECTIONS 39-340 AND
39-354 REGARDING SICK LEAVE; TO REVISE SECTION 39-366 BY ADDING
PERSONAL LEAVE HOURS ARE NOT PAID OUT AT TERMINATION;
REPEALING ALL OTHER ORDINANCES, AND RULES, OR PARTS OF
ORDINANCES AND RULES, IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ORDINANCE;
PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE AND PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 39, PERSONNEL, Article 111. Employee Compensation and
Classification System of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, Section
39-303, is amended to read as follows:
ARTICLE III. EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION AND CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
Sec. 39-303. Standard classifications, pay grades, and ranges.
(e) Pay Plan 400. Pay Plan 400 will include positions at the highest level of decision-
making and responsibility. The pay grades and ranges for positions in Pay Plan 400 are as
follows:
Pay Plan 400
Executives
FLSA Overtime Ineligible
2.5% Effective 11/24/2008
Grade
Minimum
Midpoint
Maximum
410
$26,254
$34,096
$41,938
411
33,586
46,565
59,544
412
36,609
50,756
64,903
413
40,107
55,604
71,100
414
44,337
61,469
J
78,601
415
49,236
68,261
87,287
416
55,171
76,487
97,803
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INDEXED
417
62,092
86,086
110,079
418
69,445
96,279
123,113
419
70,197
97,320
124,433
420
78,476
108,797
139,118
421
79,357
110,020
140,683
422
87,963
99,021
110,079
423
89,712
124,378
159,043
424
100,671
112,557
124,443
430
City Manager No Range
This includes a 2.5 per cent range adjustment in address market position effective
11/24/2008, and a 2.5% pay increase for each employee in Pay Plan 400 effective
11/24/2008.
/123 Deputy City Manager
421 Assistant City Manager
/119 Director
41 -8 -Deputy Director.
41-7 A istant Director
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SECTION 2. Chapter 39, PERSONNEL, Article 111. Employee Compensation and
Classification System of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, Section
39-304, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 39-304. Classified service defined.
(a) The classified service includes all positions not exempted in this section. The
following are exempt from the classified service and, therefore, are not covered by rules and
regulations of the civil service board:
(1) All positions within the following pay plans: Pay Plan 1000 (Engineers/Engineering
Services), Pay Plans 800 and 700 (Information Technology), Pay Plan 600 (Exempt),
Pay Plans 500(a) and (b)(Legal), Pay Plan 400 (Executives), Pay Plan 300 (Police
and Fire Managerial), and Exempt employees of Pay Plan NTH Health District.
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(2) All positions in the mayor's office, and all positions in the city secretary's office, and
city auditor's office.
(3)
Any position that functions as the principal secretary or assistant to the city manager,
assistant city manager, executive director, municipal court judge, department
director, assistant department director, city secretary, city attorney, assistant city
attorney.
(4) Temporary employees.
(5) All members of the police and fire collective bargaining unit.
(b) Any employee serving in a position not included in the classified services serves at
will, at the pleasure of the city manager (or the city council if appointed by the city council), and
will have and continue such at -will status notwithstanding any other ordinance, rule, or
regulation of the city. No officer or employee of the city may waive or modify the at -will status
of any position described in this section. Provided, however, police and fire positions are
governed by collective bargaining agreements and state law as to job status.
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SECTION 3. Chapter 39, PERSONNEL, Article III. Employee Compensation and
Classification System of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, Section
39-329, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 39-329. Plan I scheduling of vacation leave.
Each department shall keep necessary records of vacation leave accumulated and shall
schedule vacation leave giving consideration to operational need and priority, and when
scheduling conflicts arise, to employees with seniority. Official city holidays occurring during an
employee's vacation shall not be considered or charged as a part of the employee's vacation.
Vacation leave must be requested and approved in advance.
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SECTION 4. Chapter 39, PERSONNEL, Article 111. Employee Compensation and
Classification System of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, Section
39-332, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 39-332. Plan I cash -in of vacation leave.
(a) Plan I employees with more than one hundred twenty (120) hours of accrued
vacation, or if base hours are less than forty (40) hours per week, on a prorated basis, except
for airport public safety officers who work shifts of twenty-four (24) hours on and forty-eight
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(48) hours off, will be allowed to "cash -in" accrued vacation hours at the rate of eight (8) hours
of equivalent pay for each eight (8) hours of vacation actually taken off during the calendar
year, up to a maximum of forty (40) hours.
(1) Plan I employees, as eligible per items (a) above, who have completed twenty (20)
years of service with the city, beginning the twenty-first year, will be allowed to "cash -
in" an additional eight (8) hours of accrued vacation for an additional eight (8) hours
actually taken off during the calendar year, or if base hours are less than forty (40)
hours per week, on a prorated basis.
(b) Plan I airport public safety officers who work shifts of twenty-four (24) hours on and
forty-eight (48) hours off, who accumulate more than one hundred eighty (180) hours of
vacation, will be allowed to "cash -in" vacation hours at the rate of twelve (12) hours of
equivalent pay (equal to one day) for each twelve (12) hours of vacation actually taken off
during the calendar year, up to a maximum of sixty (60) hours.
(1) Plan I airport public safety officers, as eligible per items (b) above, who have
completed twenty (20) years of service with the city, beginning the twenty-first year,
will be allowed to "cash -in" an additional twelve (12) hours of accrued vacation for an
additional twelve (12) hours actually taken off during the calendar year.
SECTION 5. Chapter 39, PERSONNEL, Article III. Employee Compensation and
Classification System of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, Section
39-340, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 39-340. Plan 1 cash -in of sick leave.
(a) A Plan 1 employee, except for airport public safety officers who work shifts of twenty-
four (24) hours on and forty-eight (48) hours off, who has at least two hundred forty (240)
hours of accumulated sick leave, or if base hours are less than forty (40) hours per week, on a
prorated basis, and who has not taken any hours of sick leave in the previous calendar year
may cash in up to forty-eight (48) hours of accumulated sick leave in a calendar year, or if
base hours are less than forty (40) hours per week, on a prorated basis, at fifty (50) per cent of
salary or hourly rate of pay.
(b) An airport public safety officer who works shifts of twenty-four (24) hours on and
forty-eight' (48) hours off and who has at least three hundred sixty (360) hours of accumulated
sick leave, and who has not taken any sick leave in the previous calendar, may cash in up to
seventy-two (72) hours of accumulated sick leave in a calendar year, at fifty (50) per cent of
salary or hourly rate of pay.
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SECTION 6. Chapter 39, PERSONNEL, Article III. Employee Compensation and
Classification System of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, Section
39-345, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 39-345. Plan II scheduling of vacation leave.
Each department shall keep necessary records of vacation leave accumulated and shall
schedule vacation leave giving consideration to operational need and priority, and when
scheduling conflicts arise, to employees with seniority, operational needs, and, if possible, with
requests of the employees. Official city holidays occurring during an employee's vacation shall
not be considered or charged as a part of the employee's vacation. Use of vacation accrual
that exceeds two hundred forty (240) consecutive working hours during a calendar year shall
require approval by the department head, or designee. Vacation leave must be requested and
approved in advance.
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SECTION 7. Chapter 39, PERSONNEL, Article III. Employee Compensation and
Classification System of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, Section
39-347, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 39-347. Plan II cash -in of vacation leave.
Plan II employees with more than two hundred forty (240) hours of accrued vacation shall
be allowed to "cash -in" accrued vacation hours at the rate of eight (8) hours of equivalent pay
for each eight (8) hours of vacation taken off during the calendar year, up to a maximum of
forty (40) hours. Plan II employees, who have completed twenty (20) years of service with the
city, beginning the twenty-first year, will be allowed to "cash -in" an additional eight (8) hours of
accrued vacation for an additional eight (8) hours actually taken off during the calendar year.
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SECTION 8. Chapter 39, PERSONNEL, Article III. Employee Compensation and
Classification System of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, Section
39-354, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 39-354. Plan II cash -in of sick leave.
A Plan II employee who has at least seven hundred twenty (720) hours accumulated sick
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leave and who has not taken any sick leave in the previous calendar year, may cash -in up to
forty-eight (48) hours of accumulated sick leave in a calendar year at fifty (50) per cent of
salary or hourly rate of pay.
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SECTION 9. Chapter 39, PERSONNEL, Article III. Employee Compensation and
Classification System of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, Section
39-366, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 39-366. Personal leave.
(a) Effective August 1 of each year, each full-time employee shall receive forty (40)
hours of personal leave to be used under guidelines promulgated by the city manager, or
designee, except for airport public safety officers who work shifts of twenty-four (24) hours on
and forty-eight (48) hours off, who shall receive sixty (60) hours of personal leave.
(b) Personal leave hours must be requested and approved in advance like vacation
accrual, but are non -cumulative.
(c) Personal leave must be taken within the fiscal year received.
(d) Personal leave may be used within the first six (6) months of employment with the
city.
(e) Personal leave hours are not paid out at termination.
SECTION 10. This Ordinance is effective upon final adoption by the City Council. Revisions
within this Ordinance will become effective August 1, 2011.
SECTION 11. 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 of this ordinance be
given full force and effect for its purpose.
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That the for
this the
ing ordinance a read for the first time and passed to its second reading on
day of , 2011, by the following vote:
Joe Adame
Chris N. Adler
Larry Elizondo
Kevin Kieschnick
Priscilla G. Leal
David Loeb
John E. Marez
Nelda Martinez
Mark Scott
That th9foregoing ordinance was read for the second time and passed finally on this the
(� day of , 2011, by the following vote:
(/ A
Joe Adame
Chris N. Adler
Larry Elizondo
Akrauf
David Loeb
John E. Marez
Nelda Martinez
Kevin Kieschnick Mark Scott
Priscilla G. Leal
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the day of
ATTEST:
Armando Chapa
City Secretary
APPROVED as to form: ZJLTC/ ?7?/
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By:
Att‘i-,-4116,
nnifer A. Knox -Walker
Assistant City Attorney
for the City Attorney
„Vogis-
No
, 2011.
Joe A ame
Mayor
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NO.029157
Amending; Code 'sf
Ordinances,
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Eoyee Compen
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Ciassification Sys
em, to revise Sec.
39 303 "b.y' deleting
pprovision to"maintain'
5% different€al above=:
employee's sup er:.
u.isaa a.y; select
positions,in,,Pay Plan,
400, to. revise,'Sec. '
39=304 by addi"n;g ':
City Auditor's Office; -
to revise
39 329", '39-332, ?
39-345, &.39 347 re-,.:
garding vacation.
lsave, to revise Secs.; .r
39-340 & 39-„354..
,garding sick” leave;' to
revise Sec sag -36r
,by adding;"personar
leave hours are not'
paid out at: terinina
tion providing for;an
effective date of Aug.
12011..
Is/ Armando Chapa
City Secretary'