§ 207. Powers and duties of personnel director.

The personnel director shall: (1) Attend the regular and special meetings of the civil service commission, act as its secretary and record its official actions; (2) supervise and direct the work of the employees of the personnel department; (3) prepare and recommend rules and regulations for the administration of this act, administer such rules and regulations and propose amendments thereto; (4) establish and maintain in card or other suitable form a roster of officers and employees in the service of the city; (5) ascertain and record the duties and responsibilities appertaining to all positions in the classified service, except teachers, and classify such positions in the manner hereinafter provided. All promotion tests for teachers shall be prepared and corrected under the direction of the superintendent of schools, as provided in Section two hundred and eleven; (6) provide for, formulate and hold competitive tests to determine the relative qualifications of persons who seek employment or promotion to any class of position and as a result thereof establish employment and reemployment lists for the various classes of positions; (7) and, upon written request, give the name of the person highest on the reemployment or employment list for the class to the civil service commission, who shall certify the name to the appointing authority; (8) establish records of performance and a system of service ratings to be used in determining increases and decreases in salaries, in promotions, in determining the order of layoffs and reemployment and for other purposes, provided all ratings of teachers shall be made under the direction of the superintendent of schools; (9) keep such records as may be necessary for the proper administration of this chapter; (10) provide a system for checking payrolls, estimates and accounts for payment of salaries to employees of the classified service, as set up by individual departments and paid through the comptroller's office, to enable the commission upon satisfactory evidence thereof to establish the fact for its own records that the persons whose names appear thereon have been regularly employed in the performance of the duties indicate at the compensation rates, and for the period for which compensation is claimed, before payment be lawfully made to such employees; (11) make investigations concerning the administration and effect of the chaster and the rules made thereunder and report his findings and recommendations to the commission, and (12) make an annual report to the civil service commission.

Upon appointment to the position, the appointee shall hold the position for a period of not less than three months and not more than six months and shall be on probation for such time; the personnel director, the executive head of the department and a majority of the commissioners shall determine the permanent appointment.

(Amended 1986 referendum)