HomeMy WebLinkAbout2011-98 - City Attorney Office Elimination of Positions & Amending Classification to Create Legal Assistant PositionRESOLUTION NO. 2011 -98
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
ELIMINATING TWO VACANT DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT POSITIONS, ONE PART -
TIME DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY POSITION AND AMENDING THE
CLASSIFICATION PLAN
TO CREATE A NEW LEGAL ASSISTANT POSITION
WHEREAS, the City Attorney's Office is currently reorganizing its internal office
structure to provide more cost efficient and responsive services to the City of Newport
Beach ( "City ");
WHEREAS, the reorganization process involves the elimination of two vacant
Department Assistant positions and one part-time Deputy City Attorney position;
WHEREAS, the budgetary savings realized from the elimination of the three
positions will stay within the City Attorney's Office and fund a new Legal Assistant
position and outside counsel expenses;
WHEREAS, Section 4.5 of the City's Employee Policy Manual requires new
positions to be assigned to a classification in the City's Classification Plan;
WHEREAS, Newport Beach Municipal Code Chapter 2.28 allows the City
Council, upon the recommendation of the City Manager, to adopt a resolution
authorizing the creation of the new Legal Assistant position via an amendment of the
City's Classification Plan; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager reviewed the proposed classification of the Legal
Assistant position and recommends the City Council adopt this resolution amending the
City's Classification Plan.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as
follows:
Section 1: The City's Classification Plan shall be amended to include a Legal
Assistant position within the City Attorney's Office. The Legal Assistant position will be
placed within the Key & Management Confidential group with a salary equal to ten
percent (10 %) below the Administrative Assistant to the City Attorney position. The
Classification Specifications for the Legal Assistant position shall be developed by the
City Attorney and shall require three (3) years responsible secretarial support including
one (1) year of legal clerical and secretarial experience.
Section 2: Upon the amendment of the City's Classification Plan, the City
Attorney is authorized to recruit and fill the Legal Assistant position with funds realized
from the elimination of the two vacant Department Assistant positions and part-time
Deputy City Attorney position.
Section 3: The two vacant Department Assistant positions and one part-time
Deputy City Attorney position are eliminated from the City Attorney's Office.
Section 4: The City Council find this action is not subject to the California
Environmental Quality Act ( "CEQA ") pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (the activity will
not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the
environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378)
of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 3, because it
has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or
indirectly.
Section 5: This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by
the City Council, and the City Clerk shall certify the vote adopting the resolution.
ADOPTED this 25 day of October, 2011
ATTEST
Leilani I. Brown,
City Clerk F NTWppn
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Michael F. Henn,
Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, Leilani I. Brown, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby
certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing resolution,
being Resolution No. 2011 -98 was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by the City
Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 25th day of
October, 2011, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Hill, Rosansky, Gardner, Selich, Curry, Daigle, Mayor Henn
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City this 26th day of October, 2011.
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City Clerk
Newport Beach, California
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