Resolution No. 2698334
RESOLUTION NO. 2698
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CYPRESS AMENDING RESOLUTION NO. 970 PERTAINING
TO RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN THE CITY
OF CYPRESS AND ITS EMPLOYEES.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Cypress has heretofore adopted
its Resolution No. 970, entitled "A Resolution of the City Council of the
City of Cypress Promoting Improved Relations and Communication Between the
City of Cypress and Its Employees;" and,
WHEREAS, in said Resolution No. 970, this City Council established
certain "Employee Groups for Recognition;" and,
WHEREAS, the City Manager has recommended to the City Council that the
number of "Employee Groups for Recognition" be expanded, and the Council
wishes to implement said recommendation.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS HEREBY DOES
RESOLVE as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 4 of the aforementioned Resolution No. 970 hereby is amended
to read as follows:
SECTION 4. EMPLOYEE GROUP FOR RECOGNITION
In order to be recognized for the purposes of meeting and
conferring, an employee organization must represent a majority
of the employees in an Employee Group for Recognition.
The City has investigated and studied the work assignments
and interests of all City employees. The City has made conclu-
sions based on this study that there are six (6) separate and
distinct Employee Groups for Recognition that will be the groups
most conducive to harmonious Employer - Employee relations and to
the efficient operation of the City. The six (6) separate
Employee Groups for Recognition are:
(1) All police employees, including sworn and non -sworn employees;
but excluding management and confidential employees and the
classifications of secretary, clerk typist, stenographer,
and such other clerical positions that may from time to time
be added to the Department;
(2) All employees of the City whose positions are classified
as "Maintenance Worker I, Maintenance Worker II, Maintenance
Worker III, Mechanic I, Assistant Mechanic, Motor Sweeper
Operator, Custodian, and similar positions as may be adopted
or reclassified in the future.
(3) All employees of the City whose positions are classified as
Public Works Maintenance Supervisor and similar positions
as may be adopted or reclassified in the future;
(4) All employees of the City whose positions are classified as
Police Lieutenant and Police Captain;
(5) All general government employees, including all employees of
the City engaged in general governmental functions, but
excluding the following:
(a) Those employees identified in Subsections (1), (2), (3),
and (4) hereof, and
(b) Management and confidential employees.
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SECTION 4. EMPLOYEE GROUP FOR RECOGNITION (Continued)
(6) All management and confidential employees, excluding management
employees in the classifications of police lieutenant and police
captain.
SECTION 2. DECLARATORY OF EXISTING RELATIONSHIPS.
With the exception of the creation of the Employee Group for Recognition
specified in Subsection (4) of the aforesaid amended Section 4 of Resolution
No. 970, the Employee Groupsfor Recognition identified in said Section 4 re-
flect the past and present practices of the City and of the employee organiza-
tions which represent employees of the City.
SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY.
If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or
portion of this resolution, or the application hereof to any person or place,
if for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of
any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portions of this resolution or its application to
other persons or places. The City Council hereby declares that it would have
adopted this resolution, and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence,
clause, phrase or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or
more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases or
portions, or the application thereof to any person or place, be declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Cypress, at a
regular meeting held on the 26th day of September, 1983.
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA) SS
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, DO HEREBY CERTIFY
that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the
said City Council on the 26th day of September, 1983, by the following roll
call vote:
AYES: 5 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Coronado, Kanel, Mullen, Partin, and Lacayo
NOES: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
CITY CLERK F THE CITY OF CYPRESS