ITEM 6-A
 
City Council Meeting  6-20-95           Santa Monica, California

TO:       Mayor and City Council

FROM:     City Attorney

SUBJECT:  Ordinance Amending Municipal Code Section 2.04.250
          (Competitive Examinations) to Eliminate Promotability
          as a Rating Factor for Promotional Examinations

INTRODUCTION

At its meeting on June 13, 1995, the City Council introduced for
first reading an ordinance amending Municipal Code Section
2.04.250 (Competitive Examinations) to eliminate promotability as
a rating factor for promotional examinations.  The ordinance is
now presented to the City Council for adoption.

RECOMMENDATION

It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying ordinance be
adopted.

PREPARED BY:  Marsha Jones Moutrie, City Attorney


                          ORDINANCE NUMBER ____

                          (City Council Series)

                AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE 
             CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING MUNICIPAL CODE
        SECTION 2.04.250 RELATING TO COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS

     THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:

     SECTION 1. Municipal Code Section 2.04.250 is amended to
read as follows:
               2.04.250  Competitive examinations.
               The relative merit of applicants for
          appointment to, or promotion within, the
          Classified Service shall be determined by
          competitive examination, unless promotion is
          authorized by the Personnel Board, upon
          recommendation of the appointing authority,
          without competitive examination, or by open
          competitive examination.  Competitive
          examinations will include the consideration
          and rating of any or all of the following
          factors:  education, experience, knowledge,
          skill, special aptitude, general
          adaptability, personality, character,
          physical fitness, and such other
          qualification s as are considered necessary
          by the Personnel Director for the
          satisfactory performance of work of the
          classification being examined for. 
          Examinations shall be administered fairly to
          all participating applicants, and the
          identity of applicants shall be concealed in
          written examinations.  Prior to examination,
          applicants may be required to submit proof of
          age, citizenship, military service, and
          acceptable physical condition.  Promotional
          examinations shall be limited to employees
          with permanent civil service status who have
          completed the probationary period
          successfully, and who have had the required
          experience in the service of the City.
               Examinations may be assembled, or
          unassembled, and they may consist of written
          tests, performance tests, evaluation of
          qualifications, or oral tests, or any
          combination of the foregoing.
               In the case of promotional examinations,
          in addition to any of the foregoing types of
          examinations which may be administered credit
          shall be allowed for seniority.    A weight
          of one point out of ten shall be allowed for
          seniority, provided such seniority has been
          acquired in a type of position closely
          related to that being examined for.  A
          competing employee with less than one year's
          seniority shall be credited with 70% on this
          phase of the examination, with an additional
          3% for each successive year of experience up
          to a maximum of 10 years' seniority, which
          shall be credited as 100%.  In computing the
          final examination grade, the percentage grade
          on each of the major sections of the test
          shall be multiplied by the weight assigned to
          that section, and the totals thus obtained
          shall be added together and divided by the
          sum of the weights.
          
     SECTION 2.  Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal Code
or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of this
Ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no further,
is hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary to effect
the provisions of this Ordinance.

     SECTION 3.  If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or
phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or
unconstitutional by a decision of any court of competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this Ordinance.  The City Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this Ordinance and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not
declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether
any portion of the ordinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.

     SECTION 4.  The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this Ordinance.  The City Clerk shall
cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper
within 15 days after its adoption.   This Ordinance shall become
effective 30 days from its adoption.

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

________________________
MARSHA JONES MOUTRIE
City Attorney