HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 06021987 - 1.63 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
June 2 . 1987 b the following vote:
Adopted this Order on y g
AYES: Supervisors Powers , Fanden, Schroder , Torlal--son, McPeak.
NOES: None .
ABSENT: None.
ABSTAIN: None.
RESOLUTION No . 87/332
SUBJECT:
In the Matter of Pay and Performance
Evaluation for the Deep Class of
Deputy District Attorney
Whereas the Board of Supervisors has enacted Resolution 83/1, as amended,
referred to as the Salary Regulations, and Section 20 of that Resolution
relates to the compensation and terms and conditions of employment in deep
classes; and
The Board having adopted various resolutions in 1981, 1982, 1983, and 1984
establishing, correcting, and revising selected elements of the pay and
performance plan for the deep class of Deputy District Attorney which has
resulted in unnecessary administrative duplication; therefore
It is By the Board Resolved that effective June 1, 1987 preceding resolutions
governing this class, including 81/1388, 82/1449, 83/65, 83/401 and 84/443,
are rescinded and superseded by the compensation provisions and terms and
conditions of employment contained herein.
1. Salary Range:
The compensation in the class of Deputy District Attorney is s
set by the Board of Supervisors and reviewed periodically during
consideration of compensation for County management classifications.
The following basic and advanced salary range correspond with the Deputy
District Attorney job specification in which duties and responsibilities
are defined. The steps within each level are as follows:
Basic Level : Steps 1-11 ,
Advanced Level : Steps 9-15
LEVEL STEPS SCHEDULE XA-2107
(Effective 7/1/86)
15 outstanding $5196
14 pay levels 5.264
Advanced 13 5135
Level B 12 5007
(steps 9-15) 1 outstanding 4882
K18
0 pay levels 475994639
4525
7 4409
6 4301
Basic 5 4192
Level A 4 4087
(steps 1-11) 3 3986
2 3885
1 3789
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Increments between steps are two and one-half percent (2 1/2%) within the
salary progression for steps 1-15. For positions given Advanced Level
assignments, step 13 is the maximum salary for, satisfactory performance and
steps 14 and 15 are reserved for Outstanding Merit Performance salary
advancement as provided in Section 9b herein. For positions given Basic Level
assignments, step 9 is the maximum salary ford satisfactory performance and
steps 10 and 11 are reserved for Outstanding Merit Performance salary
advancement as provided in Section 9b herein.
2. Salary on Appointments:
Initial appointment into the class of Deputy District Attorney
shall be made at any step if the salary range for the level to which the
employee is appointed, however, that a promotional appointment to Deputy
District Attorney must result in at least a five percent (5%) salary
increase, if the salary schedule permits such an adjustment at the Basic
Level . Deputy District Attorneys are expected to have access to a
privately owned vehicle which may be used during the course of their
employment.
3. Salary on Reassignment to Advanced Level :
A Deputy District Attorney at a Basic who meets the minimum
qualifications for Advanced Level assignment and is reassigned 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%) . Deputy District
Attorney who are at step 10 or 11 at the time of reassigned upward shall
receive a 2 1/2% increase in pay. Designation of an assignment to
Advanced Level is the sole prerogative of the appointing authority. As
additional organizational or operational needs arise, Deputy District
Attorney positions may be added to or deleted from the Advanced Level .
Continued incumbency in any Advanced assignment shall be dependent on the
incumbent receiving a satisfactory performance evaluation from the
appointing authority or his/her designee immediately preceding completion
of six months initial tenure in the assignment and annually thereafter.
4. Temporary Short-Term Reassignments:
A Deputy District Attorney who is temporarily reassigned from a
Basic Level position to an Advanced 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
lest a two and one-half percent (2 1/2%) 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 Level who is so reassigned shall be placed on the
Advanced 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 appointing authority. 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 their two years period of reemployment
eligibility 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 the 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
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exist at the level the employee attained at the time of his/her
termination 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 and its
incumbent, if filled, from on level to, another within the deep class
or the movement of an incumbent between positions at the same or
different level within the deep class.,
b. Promotion, Demotion and Transfer - For the purposes of promotion,
demotion and trnasfer 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.
b. Reassignment to Higher Level Position - The anniversary date of
a Deputy District Attorney who is reassigned to an Advanced Salary
Level is 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 to a Basic Salary Level shall remain unchanged.
8. Performance Evaluation:
The performance of each Deputy District Attorney shall be reviewed
and evaluated by the appointing authority or designee on or before the
employee's anniversary date and annually thereafter. The appointing
authority may conduct an evaluation of the employee's performance at a
time other than the employee's anniversary date for the purpose of
awarding an outstanding performance step increase.
9. Salary Adjustments:
a. Merit Adjustment - Based upon a review of each Deputy District
Attorney's performance, the appointing authority may authorize a
merit adjustment in the salary of that Deputy District Attorney.
Such adjustment shall consist of an advancement of the employee's
salary by two (2) steps on the appropriate salary schedule
established for that level and class of Deputy District Attorney.
In the case of less than satisfactory performance, the employee's
salary may 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 appointing authority may recommend unconditional denial
of the increment; or make the denial subject to review at some date
preceding the next anniversary date. The salary of employees who
are 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
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excluded from the above .six (6) months limitation. Persons on
military leave shall receive anniversary increments that may accrue
to them during the period of military leave.
b. Outstanding Performance Adjustment:
If the appointing authority deems that a Deputy District
Attorney's performance has been outstanding, the employee's salary
may be advanced not more than two steps in any anniversary year on
the appropriate salary schedule established for that level class of
Deputy District Attorney regardless of the step to which currently
assigned. Such adjustment may be awarded on other than the
employee's anniversary date only for outstanding merit performance
providing that the increment is not effective sooner than 60 days
from any merit adjustment granted on the employee's anniversary
date. Any additional step(s) awarded to reflect Outstanding
Performance shall remain in effect until terminated by the
appointing authority.
C. Salary adjustments other than Outstanding Merit steps shall be
effective on the employee's anniversary date.
10. Salary on Demotion:
A county employee who promotes from Deputy District Attorney and is
subsequently reinstated to the class as the result of demotion of failing
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 increments being granted on the anniversary dates in the
demotional class. If the demotion is a result of a failure of probation,
the employee shall be placed at the level and salary step he/she was at
prior to being promoted.
11. Salary on Voluntary Demotion:
Notwithstanding Section 10 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.
12. 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 the class of the position which employee
previously occupied, the employee shall continue to be compensated at the
same step of the salary schedule to which the classes are allocated.
13. Salary on Reassignment from Advanced Salary Level Assignment to a
Basic' Salary Level Assignment:
An employee who is reassigned from an Advanced Salary Level assignment 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.
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14. Reclassification of Position:
The salary of an employee whose position is reclassified from a class 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 for his/her level and the provisions of Resolution 83/1
or other applicable deep class resolutions or ordinances.
15. 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 accrued 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.
16. Other provisions:
The provisions of Resolution 83/1 are applicable except those provisions
which hereinafter may be modified by resolutions.
1 We,by Certify that this Is a true and correct copy of
an action taken and entered on the minutes of.the
CC : County Adrinistrator Board of Supervisors on the date sshown.
Personnel ATTESTEN L �C 9�
District Attorney PHIL BAT ELOR, Clerk of the Board
Auditor-Controller
of Supervi ors and County Administrator
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By , Deputy
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