Bill Summaries: S319 (2011-2012 Session)

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  • Summary date: Mar 10 2011 - View summary

    Rewrites Article XI of the Wilmington City Charter, SL 1977-495, as amended, to place the director of human resources on the Civil Service Commission (Commission) as a nonvoting ex officio member; to require four regular members to be present to consider appeals of dismissals or demotions; to clarify the police and fire employees subject to the Commission and to civil service requirements; to make employee privacy provisions of GS 160A-168 apply to Commission appeal hearings; to clarify that the Commission may set its own rules of procedure; to make judicial review of Commission decisions in the nature of the common-law writ of certiorari, rather than the state administrative procedures act; to remove provision for police and fire chiefs to suspend employees with or without pay prior to approval by the city manager; to clarify deadlines for appeals; and to make other technical changes.