File #: 2003-0106    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 3/10/2003 In control: Labor, Operations and Technology Committee
On agenda: Final action: 3/31/2003
Enactment date: 4/10/2003 Enactment #: 14594
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing an additional unclassified position in the King County sheriff's office from the state civil service system for county sheriff's employees.
Sponsors: Rob McKenna, Kathy Lambert, Larry Gossett
Indexes: Personnel, Sheriff
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 14594.pdf, 2. 2003-0106 Staff Report
Drafter
Clerk 03/06/2003
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing an additional unclassified position in the King County sheriff's office from the state civil service system for county sheriff's employees.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. In 1958, the people of this state approved by initiative a civil service system for county sheriffs' employees. The system provides for competitive hiring procedures and terminations only for just cause. Terminations are reviewable by a locally appointed civil service commission.
2. State law allows a sheriff with a staff of five hundred one or more employees to have ten positions designated as unclassified service or exempt from the civil service system.
3. By the power granted in RCW 41.14.070(4), the county legislative authority may grant a sheriff up to twenty additional unclassified positions.
4. The King County sheriff's office currently has thirteen unclassified positions, which are exempt from the state civil service system for county sheriff's employees.
5. The position of chief financial officer in the sheriff's office has a close relationship to the sheriff and manages the budget for the office. While this is the type of position that is typically exempt from civil service rules, it is not currently included in the positions designated as unclassified and exempt from civil service rules.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. By the power conferred upon the county legislative authority in RCW 41.14.070, the position of chief financial officer - sheriff's office in the King County's sheriff's office is hereby designated as unclassified and exempt from the state civil service system for county sheriff's employees.
SECTION 2. RCW 41.14.070 grants the sheriff the ability to designate ten unclassified positions that are exempt from the state civil service system for sheriff's employees. By the power conferred upon the county legislative authority in RCW 41.14.070(4), with the addition of t...

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