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The duties of the Human Resources Committee shall be:

a. Recommendations for integration of positions and personnel into classification and pay plans. To make such recommendations as may from time to time be necessary to assure the proper and equitable integration of the existing positions and personnel into the classification and pay plans in force in the City.

b. Advising Civil Service Board. To advise the Civil Service Board as to:

1. Changes in the classification plan necessary to meet the changing needs of the City service;

2. Changes in allocation of positions from one class to another; and

3. Proposals to establish new positions or classes and to abolish those no longer needed.

c. Recommendations as to changes in pay ranges. To make recommendations to the City Council, through the City Manager, as to changes in pay ranges which may from time to time become desirable.

d. Requests of department heads to raise employees. To receive, consider and make recommendations to the City Manager on requests of department heads for raising any employee or group of employees from one step to another higher step within the established range, such raises normally to be made only after a year of meritorious service in the step; provided, that such raises may be made sooner in exceptional cases, such as for unusually meritorious service, to meet the competition of other employers or to fill various essential positions.

e. Review of duties, pay, etc, of positions; considerations in arriving at recommendations. To carry on a continuous review of duties, responsibilities, qualifications, requirements and rates of pay for all classes of positions in the City service. In arriving at any recommendation for changes in the pay range for any class, the Committee shall take into consideration: the advice and suggestions of department heads and appointing officers as to the duties, degree of responsibility and working conditions; the prevailing rates of pay for similar kinds of work in private establishments in the City and in other public employment; the current cost of living; and the financial condition of the City and the effect of any change in salary schedule for specific classes on the salary appropriations and expenditures.

f. Consideration of other matters referred to Committee. To consider any other matters, as the Committee may from time to time see fit involving the personnel program of the City, which may be referred to it by the City Council, the Civil Service Board, the City Manager or any department head and to make recommendations on such matters to the proper authorities. (Code 1962, § 2-79; Ord. No. G-5444, § 3, 2009)