§ 12.10. Adoption of classification and general pay plan.

The commission shall direct the director of personnel to make or cause to be made:

(a)

A job description of every position in the classified service.

(b)

A classification plan which will assign each position by title to one class.

(c)

Assignment of each classification to grades equitably related to each other on the basis of function, responsibility and nonwage benefits, with the percentage between the high and low salary range for each grade. Upon the approval of the commission, any such determinations shall have the effect of law.

The director of personnel shall, after the approval of the commission, recommend to the director of finance, the desirable salary ranges for each grade. The director of finance shall approve or modify the ranges for each grade, and forward the same with a statement of full budgetary implications, to the mayor for his or her approval. The mayor shall approve the plan or approve it subject to his or her modifications, but neither the director of finance nor the mayor may alter or destroy the relationships between the grades. Thereupon, the mayor shall submit the same to the council with recommendation that it be adopted.

The council shall (1) adopt the general pay plan, or (2) adopt the same as amended but without modifying the plan except by uniform modification of all grades, or (3) reject the same. Adoption or rejection shall be by resolution not requiring the approval of the mayor. When a general pay plan is rejected by the council, it shall be returned to the commission which shall thereupon formulate another general pay plan and transmit the same to the mayor for handling under the procedures above set forth.

"Upon approval of the plan by the mayor and council, this shall be the pay plan under which all covered employees must be paid, with the exception of the department of metropolitan police and the department of fire, the employees of which shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of section 12.13 below."

Whenever it may be deemed desirable to create any new position in the metropolitan government, the director or head of the department affected shall present a request in writing to the mayor and the civil service commission for investigation. Not later than fifteen days after the same is filed, if the mayor thinks the creation of the position in the public interest, he or she shall transmit the ordinance for this purpose, together with the civil service commission's written job description and assignment of the proposed position to the appropriate class in the classification plan. Where a proposed ordinance creates a new position and is not accompanied by such recommendation, copy thereof shall be promptly furnished by the metropolitan clerk to the mayor and to the civil service commission, and the same shall not be passed on second reading until their recommendations have been received or fifteen (15) days have elapsed without such recommendations.

Any position, job or employment hereafter created in the manner above provided, shall be in the classified service as herein defined and subject to all the rules of the civil service commission, except as the ordinance creating the same or this Charter may otherwise provide.

The director of personnel shall maintain adequate records for all employees; he or she shall require, at least once a year, performance reviews on each employee on such form or forms as the director provides. The director of personnel shall certify that each payroll in question complies with the personnel policy established by this article. No payroll may be paid without this certification.

(Amended by referendum election of November 6, 2018, Amdt. 6)

Editor's note— An amendment to § 12.10 was approved at an election held Nov. 4, 1986.