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FROM:
Lori Gentles, Assistant County o' `s Costa
Administrator, Director of Human Resources :;,9
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DATE: December 5, 2006 County
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SUBJECT: Exemption of Chief Investigator — Public Defender Classification
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATIONS)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION : Introduce Ordinance to exempt from the Merit System the classification of
Chief Investigator- Public Defender in the Contra Costa County Public Defender's Office, waive
reading, and fix December 12, 2006 for adoption.
FISCAL IMPACT : None.
BACKGROUND : The Chief Investigator- Public Defender is a single position classification
responsible for directing all investigative activities in the Public Defender's Office. All management
classifications in the Public Defender's Office are exempt classifications with the exception of the
Chief Investigator- Public Defender. Since this classification is a high-echelon position within the
Public Defender's Office, responsible for determining and advocating substantive program policy, the
Chief Investigator- Public Defender classification should also be exempt. County Counsel has
amended the Ordinance as required for exempting this position. The ordinance will now supersede
the previous ordinance exemptions positions from the Public Defender's Office, pending board
approval.
RESULT OF NEGATIVE ACTION : If this action is not approved, the Public Defender will not be
able to ensure maximum responsiveness of the incumbent of this high-echelon position.
Furthermore, the department's flexibility in keeping this highly important position filled will be
significantly compromised.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: ✓ YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURES
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VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE AND CORRECT
COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AND ENTERED ON MINUTES OF
o " THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
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AYES: NOES:
ABSENT: ABSTAIN:
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JOHN CULLEN.CLERK OF THE BOARD OFSUPERVISORS
BY: DEPUTY
ORDINANCE NO. 2006-39
(Excluding chief investigator-public defender-exempt from the merit system)
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows (omitting the parenthetical
footnotes from the official text of the enacted or amended provisions of the County Ordinance
Code):
SECTION I: Section 33-5.346 of the County Ordinance Code is amended to exclude from the
merit system the class of chief investigator- public defender-exempt, to read:
33-5.346 Chief assistant public defender and chief investigator- exempt.
(a) The chief assistant public defender is excluded and is appointed by the public
defender.
(b) The chief investigator-public defender-exempt is excluded and is appointed by the
public defender. (Ords. 2006-39 §1, 83-12 §1.)
SECTION II: EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance becomes effective 30 days after passage,
and within 15 days of passage shall be published once with the names of the supervisors
voting for and against it in the a newspaper
published in this County.
PASSED ON by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
ATTEST: JOHN CULLEN, Clerk of
the Board and County Administrator
By:
Deputy Board Chair
[SEAL]
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ORDINANCE NO. 2006-39