REPORT TO CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
SUBJECT
Title
Action to Modify Assistant Planner and Associate Planner Job Specifications and to Approve New Job Specification of Senior Planner
Report
BACKGROUND
The Community Development Department is requesting to revise the classified job specifications for Assistant Planner and Associate Planner and to adopt the classified job specification of Senior Planner based on the authority from the Personnel & Salary Resolution, Sec. 6(d), "Classification specifications for positions in the Classified Service must first be approved and adopted by the City Council."
DISCUSSION
After reviewing the Planner job series, the Community Development Department proposes to modify the Assistant Planner which was last modified in September 2015 and Associate Planner which was last revised in July 2008 and adopt Senior Planner.
Assistant Planner
Changes were made to the Minimum Qualifications, including a Bachelor's Degree in Urban and Regional Planning, Environmental Studies, Architecture, or closely related field. The Typical Duties were updated to align more specifically with the classification, including, reviews and prepares environmental documents to meet California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) or National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and assists with researching, analyzing, and interpreting social, economic, population, and land use data and trends.
Associate Planner
Changes were made to allow this position to be flexibly staffed from the lower level planner classification. In addition, changes were made to Minimum Qualifications including a Bachelor's Degree in Urban and Regional Planning, Environmental Studies, Architecture, or closely related field and adding a Possible Substitution of a Master's Degree. The Typical Duties were updated to align more specifically with the classification, including evaluates the design of assigned projects submitted for Architectural Review Board (ARB) approval; conducts and negotiates re...
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