(5)classify positions and establish job specifications;

(6)certify payrolls;

(7)develop and conduct training programs;

(8)prepare and recommend to the City Manager for approval and publication, necessary rules to establish and maintain the merit system in the City; and

(9)perform such other duties relating to personnel as the City Manager may direct.

SECTION 8.04. PERSONNEL APPEALS BOARD.

There shall be a Personnel Appeals Board consisting of three members who shall be selected by Council, one each year for an overlapping term of three years. Each member of the Personnel Appeals Board shall be a qualified elector, known to be in sympathy with the merit principle as applied to the civil service, shall neither hold nor be a candidate for any public office or employment and shall not be a member of any local, state or national committee of a political party or an officer in any partisan political club or organization.

SECTION 8.05. DUTIES OF PERSONNEL APPEALS BOARD.

The Personnel Appeals Board shall hear appeals from City employees in the non-exempt service who are not part of a grievance procedure under a labor contract and who have been suspended, demoted in position or compensation, or discharged. The Board shall have such other powers and duties as may be assigned by ordinance. The Board shall make its own rules, choose its own officers, and have authority to subpoena witnesses and to require the production of records.

SECTION 8.06. CANDIDACY FOR PARTISAN OFFICE.

No officer or employee in the non-exempt service of the City shall continue therein after becoming a candidate for nomination or election to any partisan public office.

SECTION 8.07. ASSESSMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS.

No person shall orally or in writing solicit or be in any manner concerned with the soliciting of any assessment, subscription or contribution of any type for any political party or partisan political purpose whatsoever from any person holding a position in the non-exempt service of the City. No person holding a position in the non-exempt service of the City shall make any contribution to the campaign funds of any political party or any candidate for nomination or election to any partisan political office, or take any part in the management, affairs or campaign of any political party further than in the exercise of his right as a citizen to express his opinion and cast his vote.

SECTION 8.08. PENALTIES.

Any person who violates the provisions of Section 8.06 or 8.07 of this Charter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, if an officer or employee of the City be guilty of malfeasance in office and upon conviction shall be removed from the office or position he holds and shall be ineligible for election or appointment to any position in the City service for a period of five years.