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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 6020RESOLUTION NO. 6020 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL PROPOSING AMENDMENT TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL. IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA, AS FOLLOWS: Section A. The Council of the City of San Rafael, California, on its own motion, hereby proposes that the Charter of the City of San Rafael, California, be amended by adding Article XVII, to read as follows: Section 1 DISCIPLINARY ACTION - STRIKES Any employee of the Fire Department or Police Department who is found by the City Council to have been a participant in a strike against the City of San Rafael shall be dismissed from employment upon such finding and shall not be rehired by the City in any posi- tion or capacity. Section 2 DISCIPLINARY ACTION - JOB ACTIONS Section 2.1 - Definitions "Job action", for the purpose of this provision of the Charter, shall include, but shall not be limited to, a work slowdown or any concerted refusal of employees to perform all their usual duties during the existence of a labor dispute. Section 2.2 - Slowdowns Upon a finding by the City Council that an employee of the Police Department or Fire Department has participated in a job action against the City of San Rafael, that employee's compensation shall be reduced to the minimum rate then in effect for the classification in which he is employed. This reduction in compensation shall be effective with the commencement of the shift on which the job action first occurred and shall continue until the City Council finds that the job action has ceased and that a normal schedule of activity has resumed; in no event shall any compensation lost by such reduction be restored. Section 3 ACTION FINAL No disciplinary action taken pursuant to the provisions of this Article shall be subject to the provisions of any ordinance or resolution of the City providing for appeals to, or hearings by, the Board of Review. 'i! Section 4 SEVERABILITY If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Article is for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Article. The Council hereby declares that it would have adopted the Article and each section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid. Section B. The Council of the City of San Rafael proposes to and does on its own motion, submit to the qualified electors of the City of San Rafael, California, at the Presidential Primary election to be held on the 8th day of June, 1976, the proposal to amend the Charter of the City of San Rafael, California, as set forth in Section A above. Section C. The City Clerk of the City of San Rafael is hereby ordered and directed to cause all of said amendments to be published once, not less than forty (40) days and not more than sixty (60) days prior to the date of the Presidential Primary election to be held on the 8th day of June, 1976, in the Independent Journal, the official newspaper of said City, in each edition thereof during the day of publica- tion, said newspaper being a newspaper of general circulation published at least six days a week in said City of San Rafael, California. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT each employee of the Police Department and Fire Depart- ment shall be notified within three (3) working days of passage of this Charter amendment by personal delivery thereof or mail addressed to the residence address as shown in the personnel file maintained in the City's Personnel Department for each such employee. I, MARION A. GRADY, Clerk of the City of San Rafael, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly introduced and adopted at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of San Rafael, held on Monday the 5th day of April , 1976, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: COUNCILMEN: Jensen, Miskimen, Mulryan, Nixon and Mayor Bettini NOES: COUNCILMEN: None ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None MARION A. GRADY, City Clerk - 2 -