§ 2-221. Appointments

(a) Appointments to vacant positions in the classified service shall be made in accordance with the personnel rules. Appointments and promotions shall be based on merit and fitness to be ascertained so far as practicable by competitive examination. Examinations shall be used and conducted to aid in the selection of qualified employees and shall consist of recognized selection techniques which will test fairly the qualifications of candidates. Examinations may include, but are not limited to, written tests, personal interviews, performance tests, physical agility tests, evaluation of daily work performance, work samples, or any combination thereof. In any examination, the personnel officer may set standards therefor. Physical and/or medical tests may be given to those applicants who are offered employment with the city, and such offers of employment may be contingent upon the successful completion of the physical or medical tests.

(b) Appointments to the classified service shall be made by the appointing authority subject to the approval of the city manager.

(c) Vacant positions in the classified service may be filled only by appointment from an eligibility list, by acting appointment, by transfer, by reinstatement or demotion.

(d) In the absence of an appropriate eligibility list, an acting appointment may be made by the appointing authority. An eligibility list shall be established within six (6) months for any permanent position filled by acting appointment. No person shall be employed by the city under acting appointment for a total of more than six (6) months in any fiscal year, except that the city manager may extend the period of any acting appointment for successive thirty-day periods with notification to the city council for such extension.

(e) Appointment to emergency or seasonal positions may, but need not be, made from eligibility lists and those appointments shall not be in the classified service.

(f) During the period of suspension of any employee, or pending final action on proceedings to review the suspension, demotion or dismissal of any employee, the vacancy may be filled by the appointing authority only by an acting appointment.

(Code 1960, § 2704; Ord. No. 98-3, § 1, 2-2-98)