HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 07311984 - 84-443 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Adopted this Order on July 31. 1984 , by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Powers , Fanden, Schroder , McPeak, Torlakson
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
SUBJECT: In the Matter of Revision to the RESOLUTION NO. 84/ 443
Pay and Performance Evaluation
Plan for the Deep Class of Deputy
istrict Attorney.
The Board of Supervisors having enacted Resolution No. 81/581 relating to the
establishment of deep classes and to the terms and conditions of employment therein;
and
The Board of Supervisors having adopted Resolution 81/1388 effective December 1,
1981 establishing the Deputy District Attorney deep class; and
The Board of Supervisors having adopted Resolution No. 82/1449 effective January 1,
1983 and Resolution No. 83/401 effective March 8, 1983 revising the pay and performance
evaluation plan for the deep class of Deputy District Attorney;
BE IT BY THE BOARD RESOLVED that effective August 1, 1984 the following compensa-
tion provision and terms and conditions of employment are applicable for the deep class
of Deputy District Attorney:
1. Salary Range: The compensation in the class of Deputy District Attorney is
set by the Board of Supervisors and reviewed periodically during consideration of
compensation for County management classifications.
The following salary levels, Basic and Advanced, refer to the Deputy District
Attorney job specification in which duties and responsibilities are defined and
designate the steps within each level :
Assignments Steps
15> B Outstanding
14 Performance Steps
Advanced (B) 13
Salary Levels 12
I1> A Outstanding
10 Performance Steps
9
8
7
Basic (A) 6
Salary Levels 5
4
3
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Incumbents between steps are two and one-half percent (22%) within the salary
progression for steps 1-15. For positions given Advanced Salary Level assignments,
step 13 is the maximum salary for acceptable performance and steps 14 and 15 are
reserved for Outstanding Merit Performance salary advancement as provided in Section 9b
herein. For positions given Basic Salary Level Assignments, step 9 is the maximum
salary for acceptable performance and steps 10 and 11 are reserved for Outstanding
Merit Performance salary advancement as provided in Section 9b herein.
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2. Initial Appointments: The initial appointment of a Deputy District Attorney
shall be made at the first step of the salary schedule for the Basic Salary Level ,,
provided, however, that a promotional appointment to Deputy District Attorney must
result in at least a five percent (5%) salary increase, provided -the salary schedulA
permits such an adjustment. Deputy District Attorneys are expected to have access to
a privately owned vehicle which may be used during the course of their employment.
3. Advanced Salary Level Assignments: A Deputy District Attorney who meets the
minimum qualifications for Advanced Salary Level assignment and is assigned .by the
appointing authority to the Advanced Level on a permanent basis shall not be placed
higher than step 10 irrespective of whether or not this results in a salary adjustment
of less than five percent (5%) . Designation of an assignment to Advanced Salary Level
is the sole prerogative of the County. As additional -organization or operational needs
arise, Deputy District Attorney positions may be added to or deleted from the Advanced
Salary Level . Continued incumbency in any Advanced assignment shall be dependent on -
the incumbent .receiving a satisfactory performance evaluation from the appointing
authority or kis/her designee immediately preceding completion of six months tenure i.n
the assignment and annually thereafter.
4. Temporary Short-Term Reassignments: A Deputy District Attorney who is tempor-
arily reassigned from a position at the Basic Salary Level assignment between steps
1 and 9 to a vacant position in the Advanced Salary Level assignment shall have his/her
salary increased on the twenty-first (21st) calendar day of said assignment to that
salary step in the Advanced Level which constitutes at least a two and one-half percent
(22%) increase but in no case shall be higher than step 10 and shall continue to
receive this pay for the duration of the assignment. A Deputy District Attorney at
salary steps 10 or 11 of the Basic Salary Level who is so reassigned shall be placed on
the Advanced Salary Level at step 12 and shall continue to receive this pay for the
duration of the assignment. Upon termination of the assignment, the incumbent shall
immediately revert to the salary step he/she would have received had he/she remained in
his/her permanent assignment. Designation of temporary short-term reassignments shall
be the sole prerogative of the County. Short-term reassignments may include, but are
not limited to: backup for a Deputy District Attorney on extended sick leave, vacation
or leave of absence.
5. Re-Employment: Deputy District Attorneys who terminate their employment with
the County in good standing and who are subsequently re-employed as a Deputy District
Attorney within two years from the date of termination may be appointed at the salary
level assignment at which they were employed at the time of their termination provided
that a vacant position exists at that level. Said appointment will be at the first
salary step of the appropriate schedule, unless otherwise provided for by the appointing
authority or designee in which case employees may be appointed up to the salary step of
the level at which they were employed at the time of their termination. If a vacant
position does not exist at the level the employee attained .at the time of his/her term-
ination said employee may be appointed to a lower level position provided that a vacant
position exists at that level .
6. Definition and Application of Terms:
a. Reassignment means the movement of a position from one salary level
assignment to anotEer within the deep class or from a position at one salary level
assignment to another position at another salary level assignment within the deep
class.
b. . Promotion, Demotion and Transfer - For the purposes of promotion,
demotion and transfer .to and from the deep class- of Deputy District Attorney,
salary refers to and shall be based on the salary established for each of the
levels within the whole deep classification rather than on the bottom and top
salary steps of the whole deep class.
7. Anniversary Dates:
a. Current Probationary and New Employees - The anniversary date of an
employee having probationary status as of the effective date of this Resolution
and all new employees appointed at the first salary step .shall be the first day of
the calendar month after the calendar month when he/she successfully completes six
months full-time service, except that when he/she began work on the first regularly
scheduled workday. of the month for his/her position which was not the first calendar
day that month, the anniversary is .the first day of the calendar month when he/she
successfully completes six months full-time service.
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7. Anniversary Dates continued:
b. Reassignment to Higher Level Position - The anniversary date of a Deputy
District Attorney who is assigned to an Advanced Salary Level assignment .s
determined as for a new employee in a above.
C. Reassignment to Lower Level Position - The anniversary date of a Deputy
District Attorney who is reassigned from an Advanced Salary Level assignment to a
Basic Salary Level assignment shall remain unchanged.
8. Performance Evaluation: The performance of each Deputy District Attorney
shall be reviewed and eva uated by the appointing authority or designee on or before
the employee.'s anniversary date and annually thereafter.
9. Salary Adjustment:
a. =cased upon a review of each Deputy District Attorney' s performance, the
appointing authority may authorize an adjustment in the salary of that Deputy
District Attorney, except in cases where an employee is already at the maximum
salary step of the salary schedule for his/her.assignment. In the case of satis-
factory performance such adjustment shall consist of an advancement of the employee' s
salary by two (2) steps, unless only one (1) step is available, on the appropriate
salary schedule established for that assignment for the class of Deputy District
Attorney. In the case of less than satisfactory performance, the employee' s salary
shall be held until such time as the performance of the employee is satisfactory.
No salary adjustment shall be made unless an affirmative recommendation to do so is
made by the appointing authority or designee, and no provision of this Section shall
be construed to make the adjustment of salaries mandatory on the County. The appoint-
ing authority may recommend unconditional denial of the increment; or make the
denial subject to review at some date preceding the next anniversary. The salary
of employees who are on leave of absence from their positions on any anniversary
date and who have not been absent from their positions on leave without pay more
than six (6) months during their anniversary year preceding the review date shall
be reviewed on the anniversary date. Employees on stipendiary educational leave
are excluded from the above six (6) month limitation. Persons on military leave
shall receive anniversary increments that may accrue to them during the period of
military leave.
b. In cases where the employee is at the maximum acceptable performance
salary step within the salary level to which his/her position is assigned, the
appointing authority may award additional Outstanding Merit Performance salary
steps of two and one-half percent (22%) in the same manner as described in a
above. Any additional step awarded to reflect Outstanding Performance shall remain
in effect until terminated by the appointing authority.
C. Salary Adjustments for a Deputy District Attorney shall be effective
on the employee' s anniversary date.
10. Salary on Reassignment From a Basic Salary Level -Assignment to an Advanced
Salary Level Assignment: An employee who is reassigned on a permanent basis from a
Basic Salary Level assignment to an Advanced Salary Level assignment shall be eligible
for a two and one-half percent (22%) step salary adjustment after successful completion
of six (6) months full-time service. Said adjustment shall be effective on the
employee's anniversary date in accordance with 7b above. After the initial salary
adjustment referenced above, an employee will be eligible for another salary adjustment
on an annual basis.
11. Salary on Demotion: A County employee who promotes from Deputy District
Attorney and is subsequently reinstated to the class as the result of demotion or fail-
ing probation will be reinstated to the level he/she attained prior to promotion.
Applicable rules on layoff and displacement will be effectuated in the event a vacant
position, at the level to which the employee is to be demoted, does not exist. An
employee who demotes to Deputy District Attorney shall have his/her salary reduced on
the appropriate salary schedule to the monthly salary step of Deputy District Attorney
which is next lower than the salary he/she received before demotion. In the event this
decrease is less than five percent (5%), the employee's salary shall be adjusted to the
step on the appropriate salary schedule that is five percent (5%) less than the next
lower step, if the schedule permits such adjustment. Whenever the demotion is the result
of layoff, the salary of the demoted employee shall be that step on the applicable salary
schedule which he/she would have achieved had he/she remained continuously in the
position to which he/she has been demoted, all within range on the anniversary dates in
the demotional class. If the demotion is a result of a failure of probation, the employ-
ee shall be placed at the level and salary step he/she was at prior to being promoted.
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12. Salary on Voluntary Demotion: Notwithstanding Section 11 above, whenever any
employee voluntarily demotes to Deputy District Attorney at a level which has a salary
schedule lower than the class from which the employee is demoting, his/her salary shall
remain the same if the steps in the new (demoted) salary schedule permits, and if not,
his/her new salary shall be at the step next below his/her former salary.
13. Salary on Transfer: Whenever a permanent employee moves to a Deputy District
Attorney position at a work level , the salary schedule of which is allocated to the
same salary range as is the class of the position which the employee previously occupied,
the employee shall continue to be conpensated at the same step of the salary schedule to
which the classes are allocated.
14. Salary on. Reassi nment From Advanced Salary Level Assi nment to'a Basic Salary
Level Assignment: An employee who is reassigned from an Advanced Salary Level assign=
ment to a Basic Salary Level assignment shall be placed on that step of salary schedule
at which he/she would have achieved had she/he remained continuously in the Basic Salary
Level assignment which-she/he has been reassigned.
15. Reclassification of Position: The salary of an employee whose position is
reclassified from a c ass on the basic salary schedule to the Deputy District Attorney
classification shall be established in accordance with the applicable Sections of this
Resolution. An employee's salary who is in a position that is reclassified from Deputy
District Attorney to another class on the basic salary schedule shall be determined
based upon the Deputy District Attorney salary Schedule for his/her level and the
provisions of Resolution 81/581 or other applicable deep class resolutions or ordinances.
16. Seniority: An employee's seniority for layoff and displacement_ purposes in
the deep class of Deputy District Attorney shall be determined by adding (a) his/her,
length of service in other classes at the same or higher salary levels as determined by
the salary schedule in effect at the time of layoff and by .adding (b) his/her length of
service in the abandoned classes of Deputy District Attorney III and IV to other service
described in (a) above. Employees reallocated to a deep class because the duties of the
position occupied are appropriately described in the class shall carry into the deep
class the seniority accrued or carried forward in the former class and seniority accrured
in other classes which have been included in the deep class. Service for layoff and
displacement purposes includes only the employee's last continuous permanent County
employment.
Other rules affecting seniority are contained in the Personnel Management
Regulations. Additionally,
a. For purposes of layoff and displacement, no incumbents who occupy lower
level assignment positions shall be considered as meeting the position requirements
for higher level positions.
b. For purposes of layoff and displacement, incumbents in higher level
positions shall be considered as meeting the position requirements for lower level
assignment positions.
C. Notwithstanding b above, incumbents of higher level positions may not
displace into positions requiring special licenses, experiences or skills, such as
bilingual proficiency, unless they possess such licenses, experiences or skills.
17. Other Provisions: The provisions of Resolution 81/581 are applicable except
those provisions which hereinafter may be modified by resolutions.
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Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
CC : District Attorney July 31 , 1984
Auditor-Controller ATTESTED:
Director , Personnel Dept. ,;:A. OLSSO-M, COUNTY CLERK
County Administrator and ex of ;-cio clerk of the Board
by __ _ _�" . Deputy
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