Municipal Code, Complete - City of Santa Barbara

3.16.170 Removal of Names from List.
The name of any person appearing on an employment, reinstatement, or promotional list shall be removed by the
Personnel Director, if the eligible person requests that his name be removed and the request is confirmed in writing
by the eligible person or the Personnel Department, or if he fails to respond to a notice of certification mailed to his
last known address, or for any of the reasons specified in Section 3.16.070 of this chapter. The person affected shall
be notified of the removal of his name by a notice mailed to his last known address. The names of persons on
promotional employment lists who resign from the service shall automatically be dropped from such lists. (Ord. 3956
§1, 1978; Ord. 3838, 1976.)
3.16.175 Inactive List.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.16.170 of this chapter the name of an eligible who is not available for
immediate certification may, upon request in writing to the Personnel Director, be placed on an inactive list, and may
be restored to the active list from which it was removed upon request of the eligible provided the list is still in
existence. (Ord. 3267 §1(part), 1968.)
3.16.180 Types of Appointment.
All vacancies in the classified service shall be filled by transfer, demotion, re-employment, reinstatement, or from
eligibles certified by the Personnel Director from an appropriate employment list, if available. In the absence of
persons eligible for appointment in these ways, provisional appointments may be made in accordance with this
chapter. (Ord. 3267 §1(part), 1968.)
3.16.190 Notice to Personnel Director.
Whenever a vacancy in the classified service is to be filled, the appointing power shall notify the Personnel
Director in the manner prescribed. If there is no reinstatement list available for the class, the appointing power shall
have the right to decide whether to fill the vacancy by re-employment, transfer, demotion, appointment from a
promotional employment list, or appointment from an open employment list. (Ord. 3956 §2, 1978; Ord. 3267
§1(part), 1968.)
3.16.200 Certification of Eligibles.
If it is not possible to fill a vacancy by reinstatement, the appointing power may fill such vacancy by reemployment,
transfer, or demotion, or by certification from an appropriate employment list, provided that eligibles
are available.
When the appointing power requests a vacancy be filled by appointment from a promotional employment list or
from an open employment list, the Human Resources Manager shall certify to the appointing authority, in
alphabetical order, the names (according to final score) of nine (9) more eligibles (including tie scores) than the
number of vacancies.
In the case of Fire Inspector I, the Human Resources Manager shall certify from either a promotional employment
list or from an open employment list, in alphabetical order, the names (according to final score) of nineteen (19) more
eligibles (including tie scores) than the number of vacancies.
In the case of Firefighter, Police Officer, Public Safety Dispatcher I, Public Safety Dispatcher II, and Parking
Enforcement Officer, the Human Resources Manager shall certify from either a promotional employment list or from
an open employment list, the names of all eligibles in final score order.
For the positions of Fire Engineer, Fire Captain, Fire Inspector II and Fire Inspector III, the Human Resources
Manager shall certify to the appointing authority, in alphabetical order, the names of four (4) more eligibles
(including tie scores) than the number of vacancies.
Any eligible whose name is certified three (3) times to an appointing power, and has not been appointed, may be
removed from the eligible list at the discretion of the Human Resources Manager. Whenever there are fewer than
three (3) names of individuals willing to accept appointment on a promotion employment list or on an open
employment list, the appointing power may make an appointment from among such eligibles or may request the
Human Resources Manager to establish a new list. When so requested the Human Resources Manager shall hold a
new examination and establish a new employment list.
Those persons whose names are placed on an eligible list by reasons of transfer, reinstatement, or by virtue of
being on another eligible list which is at a higher salary range and for which the qualifications are substantially
similar, shall be certified at the request of the appointing authority in addition to the names certified from the
appropriate employment list, except vacancies in the Treatment and Patrol bargaining unit shall not be filled from
eligibles placed on the certification list by virtue of being on another eligible list which is at a higher salary range and
for which the qualifications are substantially similar. Such additional names shall have no rank or standing on the
eligible list. (Ord. 5553, 2011; Ord. 5346, 2005; Ord. 5176, 2001; Ord. 5174, 2001; Ord. 5066, 1998; Ord. 4578,
1989; Ord. 4462, 1987; Ord. 3956 §3, 1978; Ord. 3525 §4, 1972.)
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