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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 `2 1 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. 0.0030 . RESOLUTION NO. 84/443 r , 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. 00030 -2- 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. 000303 -3- 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. %x.16 t5 d LP►i.2 al:C:3 7$Ctcopy of R, ac44art tpken and e:itered on the minutes of the 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 000304 -4-