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ORDINANCE 586ORDINANCE NO. 586 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, CREATING A PERSONNEL MERIT SYSTEM FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFOR- NIA, DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. CREATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PERSONNEL MERIT SYSTEM. (A). There is hereby created and established a Merit Sys- tem for certain officers and members of the Fire Department, Police Department, and for other departments as may be designated from time to time by the City Council of the City of El Segundo. All full -time, regular and permanent positions in the Police Department and Fire De- partment, except the Department Heads and clerical employees, are included in the Personnel Merit System and shall for the purpose of this ordinance be known as the Classified Service. (B). Department Heads will, while serving in that capacity, retain their last previous rank in the Classified Service. (C). The present Police Chief whose previous rank was established as Deputy Chief in the. Classified Service by Ordinance No. 562 is hereby reassigned and confirmed the rank of Deputy Chief in the Classified Service. SECTION 2. PURPOSE. It is hereby the declared person- nel policy of the City that: (A). Employment in the City Government shall be based on merit and fitness, free of personal or political considerations. (B). Just and equitable incentives and conditions of em- ployment shall be established and maintained to promote efficiency and economy in the operation of the City Government. (C). High morale shall be maintained by fair administra- tion of this ordinance, and by every consideration of the rights and in- terests of employees consistent with the best interests of the public and 2C .� 5 the City. (D). Tenure of employees covered by this ordinance shall be subject to satisfactory performance of work, necessity of the performance of work, behavior consistent with the interests of the City, and the availability of funds. SECTION 3. PERSONNEL OFFICER. The City Manager shall be ex- officio Personnel Officer. With the approval of the Coun- cil, the City Manager may delegate any of the powers and duties con- ferred upon him as Personnel Officer under this ordinance to any other officer or employee of the City, provided that said other officer or employee is qualified by education and /or experience to perform such duties, or the City Manager may recommend that such powers and duties, or any portion thereof, be performed under contract as provided in Section 24 of this ordinance. The Personnel Officer shall: (A). Prepare and recommend to the City Manager Person- nel Rules. The City Attorney shall approve the legality of such rules prior to their submission to the City Council for its approval. Person- nel Rules shall be adopted by resolution. Amendments to the rules shall be made in accordance with the above procedures. (B). Prepare or cause to be prepared a position classifi- cation plan for those positions included under the Classified Service in- cluding class specifications. The allocation or reallocation of any posi- tion to any existing class shall not be considered a revision of the plan. (C). The initial classification plan shall be revised from time to time as changing conditions require. Such revisions may con- sist of the addition, abolishment, consolidation, division or amendment of existing classes. (D). Be responsible for administration of the following pro- cedures within the framework of this ordinance, the Classification and Salary Ordinance and the Personnel Rules: -2- 3?; (1). The formulation of standards and qualifications for each class of position in the Classified Service. (2). The public announcement of vacancies and examinations and the acceptance of applications for employment. (3). The preparation and conduct of examinations and the establishment and use of employment lists containing names of persons eligible for appointment. (4). The certification and appointment of persons from employ- ment lists to fill vacancies and the making of temporary and emergency appointments. (5). The evaluation of employees during probationary period and periodically thereafter. (6). The transfer from one department to another, promotion, demotion and reinstatement of employees. (7). The allocation of positions to classes on the basis of duties, responsibilities and requirements. (8). The standardization of hours of work, attendance and leave regulations, working conditions, and the develop- ment of employee morale, welfare, training and safety. (9). The separation from service of employees through lay- off, suspension and dismissal. (10). The maintenance and use of necessary records and forms. (11). The establishment and maintenance of suitable methods for effective communication between employees and their supervisors; between employees and the City Mana- ger relating to conditions of employment in the City Ser- vic e. (F). Administer all other provisions of this ordinance, the Classification and Salary Ordinance, and the Personnel Rules established which are not specifically reserved to the Council. SECTION 4. HEARING OF APPEALS. (A). Employees who are suspended for six (6) working days -3- or longer, where discharge is not provided at the end of the suspension period, shall have the right of appeal to the City Council. (B). The City shall contract with the Los Angeles County Civil Service Commission to hear appeals from the following: (1). Dismissal (2). Demotion (3). Suspension for a period of six (6) days or longer where discharge is provided; and (4). Suspension for a period in excess of thirty -one (31) days. Following the giving of notice as specified in these rules, such cases shall be certified to the Los Angeles County Civil Service Commission for hearing and report of their findings. The decision of the County Civil Service Commission will be final in each case. The decisions and findings of the County Civil Service Commission will be subject to review of courts only. Hearings shall be conducted accord- ing to the Rules of the Los Angeles County Civil Service Commission, as the same may be amended from time to time. SECTION 5. EXAMINATIONS. (A). All applicants for positions in the Classified Service shall be subject to an appraisal of their qualifications as provided herein. (B). Examinations may be specified by the Personnel Offi- cer, as promotional only, as open only, or as both open and promotional. It shall be the policy of the Personnel Officer to encourage the general practice of promotion within the City service wherever in his view a sufficient number of fully qualified candidates are available and such policy will continue to contribute to a sound and efficiently operating City organization. (C). Honorably discharged veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States, as defined in the applicable statutes and regula- tions of the State of California pertaining to Veterans' preferences may be given five points, which shall be added to the earned total passing examination score in examinations for entry level positions in the Classi- -4- 3[21.5 fied Service. The Personnel Officer shall determine in advance of the publication of the announcement of an examination, whether Veterans' preference will be granted, and it shall be stated in the official announce- ment. No additional points shall be credited to any veteran's scores on any promotional examination. (D). The personnel officer shall review and recommend to the City Manager, who in turn shall recommend to the City Council, an appropriate examination plan and weights for each portion of the examina- tion. For departments other than the Police and Fire Departments, the plan may consist of any one or combination of the following techniques: (1). Written (2). Oral (3). Demonstration (4). Any evaluation of education, experience, or skills or physical fitness which fairly evaluates the relative capa- cities of the applicants. (E). The examination plan, for entrance or promotional, for the Police and Fire Departments shall consist of a written examina- tion and one or more of the following: (1) . Oral (2). Demonstration (3). Any evaluation of education, experience, or skills or any test of manual skills or physical fitness which fairly evalu- ates the relative capacities of the applicant. SECTION 6. NOTICE OF EXAMINATIONS. (A). Notice of time, place and general scope of every exami- nation shall be posted by the Personnel Officer in a conspicuous place. Such posting shall be not less than two (2) weeks prior to such examina- tion, at the City Hall, at the office of the appropriate department, and at such other places as the Personnel Officer deems appropriate. (B). An announcement of time, place and general scope of promotional examinations shall be posted by the Personnel Officer in -5- i3Q58 such places as specified in Section 6A, not less than thirty (30) days prior to posting of "Notice of Examinations" at the end of which thirty (30) day period, the plan for examination will be submitted to the City Council for approval. SECTION 7. INSPECTION OF EXAMINATION PAPERS. (A). Examination papers of the candidates are not subject to inspection by the public. Upon request any candidate may inspect his own papers, including his application and the questions and ans- wers thereto except for copyrighted or standardized tests for entrance classes. (B). Inspection of a keyed copy of the examination ques- tion booklet, which is for the purpose of requesting a review of such items as the candidate may believe are incorrectly or improperly keyed, will be allowed for the five working days immediately following an examination. The inspection time allowed a candidate will not ex- ceed one -half the amount of the time originally allowed to answer the questions during the administration of the examination. During key inspection a representative of the personnel office will be present to assure that the candidate takes no notes of any kind regarding any test materials. The candidate may protest any item or group of items or the whole test on the basis of either inappropriateness or inaccuracy. All protests shall be resolved and answered before the completion of the final scoring. (C). Inspection of a candidate's answer booklet, which is for the purpose of detecting whether any clerical or other error has been made in the scoring of the booklet, shall be allowed for a thirty - day calendar period immediately following the notification to the candi- date of examination results. Candidates are not allowed to review the question booklet during this inspection period. Not more than one hour will normally be allowed for answer booklet review during which time a representative of the personnel officer shall be present to assure that no changes or marks of any kind are made by the candidate on his ans- wer booklet or the keyed answer booklet. SECTION 8. EMPLOYMENT LISTS. (A). Priority for consideration for employment shall be given to the various employment lists in the following order: re-employ- ment lists, promotional lists and open competitive lists. (B). The re- employment list for any position shall consist of the names of permanent employees who have been laid off, for lack of work or lack of funds, from a position in the same class or an equivalent class to that in which the vacancy exists. Such names shall be placed on the re- employment list in reverse order of layoff. Em- ployees whose positions have been reallocated to a lower class, but who have not been demoted for cause, shall also have their names placed on the re- employment list for the class from which their position was re- allocated. (C). Promotional lists shall consist of the names of per- manent employees who have been successful in a promotional examina- tion for a higher class. (D). Open competitive lists shall consist of the names of persons not employed by the City who have been successful in an examina- tion, or of employees of the City who have passed the examination but have not yet attained permanent status in their present class, or in the case where an examination has been designated as open competitive only, the names of all passing candidates, whether permanent employees, non- permanent employee, or persons not employed by the City, shall be placed on the list in order of their scores. (E). Promotional lists and open competitive lists shall be created as a result of examination as provided herein. The names of probationary employees who are laid off for lack of work or lack of funds, may be restored to the same employment list from which the original appointment was made and in the same rank as when the origi- nal appointment was made. (F). When request for certification from an employment -7- list has been received, certification shall be made in conformance with the following provisions: (1). If a re- employment list exists for the class, the highest name on such list shall be certified for each vacancy to be filled. Promotional and /or open employment lists shall not be certified if there are any names on the re -em- ployment list for the class. (2). If there are less than three (3) qualified names on the promotional list, the appointing power may request additional highest one or two names to be certified from the open competitive list if such list exists. (3). If no re- employment or promotional lists exist, the Personnel Officer shall certify to the Department Head from the open competitive employment list as pres- cribed in Section 5B herein. (4). Except for re- employment lists, when all appropriate employment lists for a class contain a total of fewer t than three (3) names, the Department Head may, with approval of the City Manager, make provisional appoint- ments until additional names are secured through another examination. (5). No person shall be appointed to any Classified Service position unless that person has the qualifications for the position as set forth in the specifications for the class. (G). Employment lists shall expire at such time as the Personnel Officer shall determine, provided that: VICE. (1). Names shall remain on the re- employment list for a period of not less than three (3) years. (2). Promotional and open- competitive lists shall have an expiration date of one (1) year unless otherwise announced in the notice of examination. SECTION 9. APPOINTMENTS IN THE CLASSIFIED SER- no (A). Appointments and promotions to vacant positions in the Classified Service shall be based on merit and fitness to be acer- tained insofar as practicable by competitive examination. Appointments and promotions shall be made by the City Manager upon recommendation of the various Department Heads. (B). When appointments and promotions are to be made to vacancies in the Classified Service, the names of the highest eligible persons willing to accept appointment shall be transmitted by the Per- sonnel Officer to the Department Head in the order in which they appear on the list as follows: For one vacancy the names of three (3), for two or secondary vacancies the names of five (5), for each additional or each subsequent vacancy, three (3) additional names shall be submitted and appointment shall be limited to any of these eligible persons. (C). In the absence of appropriate employment lists, a pro- visional appointment may be made of a person meeting the qualifications established for the classification. Any employment list shall be estab- lished within six (6) months, for any permanent position filled by provi- sional appointment. No person shall be employed by the City under pro- visional appointment for a total of more than six (6) months in any fis- cal year except that the City Manager may with approval of the City Coun- cil extend the period of any provisional appointment for not more than thirty (30) days by any one action. (D). No special credit shall be allowed in any examination or the establishment of any employment or promotional lists, for ser- vice rendered under a provisional appointment. (E). Appointments to temporary, emergency and seasonal positions may but need not be made from eligible lists and those appointed shall not be in the Classified Service. Appointments of this type shall in- clude temporary employment for the replacement of employees on leave of absence other than military leave, or vacation, emergency appoint- ments to meet emergencies which threaten life, property or the general welfare of the City, or for work seasonal in nature. (F). During the period of suspension of any employee, or pending final action on proceedings to review the suspension, demotion or dismissal of an employee, the vacancy created may be filled only by temporary appointment. (G). Transfer: With the approval of the City Manager, an employee may be transferred by the Department Head from one posi- tion to another position in the same class or a comparable class at the same salary level. If such transfer involves a change from one department in the Classified Service to another department in the Classi- fied Service, the Department Heads and the employee involved must con- sent thereto before the action shall be considered effective. Transfers shall not serve to affect in any way the status, rights and privileges of an employee under this ordinance. (H). Reinstatement: The Department Head may, with the approval of the City Manager, reinstate to a vacant position any person who has resigned in good standing to a position in a class or equivalent class in which he had acquired status in the Classified Service, provided that such reinstatement is accomplished within one (1) year of the date of resignation. A reinstatement may, at the discretion of the Depart- ment Head, take precedence over any employment list except a re -em- ployment list. SECTION 10. PROBATIONARY PERIOD. (A). All original and promotional appointments shall be for a probationary period of one (1) year. During the probation period the employee may be rejected by the appointing authority at any time without right of appeal or hearing. (B). An employee released during the probationary period from a position to which he has been promoted shall be reinstated to the position from which he was promoted, unless he is discharged for a reason, as provided in this ordinance and the Rules, which would have been sufficient to cause his discharge from his former position as well. In such case the employee shall be entitled to appeal his dismissal -10- as provided in this ordinance. Lf i?13 3 (C). An employee's status shall be considered permanent upon completion of the probationary period only if the Department Head reports to the Personnel Officer that the services of the employee have been satisfactory and that the employee is recommended for a perman- ent appointment. A favorable or unfavorable report must be rendered on each employee upon completion of his probationary period. SECTION 11. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT. (A). The Personnel Officer shall have the right to require all employees to complete and submit any applications, agreements or statements pertinent to their employment. (B). The Personnel Officer shall have the right to require, at the expense of the City, a medical examination of any applicant for employment or new employees and, in addition, shall have the right to require periodic medical examinations for any or all employees in the Classified Service. (C). Reassignments, demotions or separations, at the re- quest of the employee, shall be reviewed by and be subject to the appro- val of the Personnel Officer. SECTION 12. EMPLOYEE APPEALS FROM DISCIPLIN- ARY ACTIONS. (A). Any permanent employee in the Classified Service who has been suspended, for a period of six (6) days or more, demoted, dismissed, or reduced in pay shall have a period of ten (10) days follow- ing written notification in which to file an appeal or answer the charges. (B). The employee shall forthwith be given in said written notification a statement of the extent and nature of any disciplinary action and a full explanation of the reasons for the action including specific in- formation as to time and place of incidents. (C). Each disciplinary action shall automatically be given administrative review by the City Manager, immediately after the written notification, and the City Manager may countermand the disciplinary 555 3964 action or modify the discipline imposed prior to any hearing as here- inafter provided. (D). Appeals and requests for hearings shall be filed with the City Manager, and then immediately referred to the Los Angeles County Civil Service Commission or City Council, as the case may be. (E). The Commission shall have the right to refuse to hold a hearing in any case in which the appellant fails to present sufficient grounds to warrant a hearing. (F). Procedures for all hearings to be conducted by the County shall be in accordance with the Rules of the Los Angeles County Civil Service Commission. SECTION 13. GROUNDS FOR DEMOTION, SUSPENSION AND DISCHARGE. (A). No person in the Classified Service shall be demoted, suspended or discharged from his position except for: (1). Inefficiency, misconduct, insubordination, disregard of orders. (2). Incompentency, incompatibility, dereliction of duty, mal- feasance. (3). Drunkenness on duty. (4). Conviction of a felony. (5). Having a financial interest, directly or indirectly, in any contract, sale or transaction to which the City is a party. (6). Being privately engaged in other business, employment or other activities which occupy a substantial part of his time or attention which interferes with the performance of his duties. (7). Willful violation of any provisions of this ordinance or the Personnel Rules established thereunder. (8). Incapacity to perform duties satisfactorily due to insanity, or other mental or physical disability. -12- (9). Obtaining appointment or promotion through falsification, subterfuge or other illegal means. (10). Any other acts, or failures to act properly, which bring discredit upon the City service or otherwise cause the em- ployee to be unfit for the responsibilities of his position. SECTION 14. REIMBURSEMENT FOR LOSS OF PAY. Reimbursement for loss of pay due to disciplinary action which is sub- sequently revoked or modified shall be made to an employee, but only to the extent of such modification, if any. Any additional salary or wages received from other employment performed during the normal work schedule period of the employee shall be deductible from any City compensation payable under this section. SECTION 15. LAYOFF PROCEDURE. No member shall be dismissed because of the discontinuance of the particular office or position held by him, but employees dismissed because of curtailment of expenditures, reduction in force, and for like causes, shall be the last employee or employees, including temporary appointees, that have been appointed to the respective department, until such reduc- tions necessary shall have been accomplished. Vacancies to be filled in the lowest class or rank, resulting from such removal, shall be filled from the last employee or employees that have been appointed to the next higher class or rank, and their places likewise filled under proper distribution has been accomplished; provided, further, that in the event said department shall again be increased in numbers, said men dismissed, or reduced in class or rank, under the terms of Sec- tion 8 B of this ordinance shall have the privilege of being re- employed before any new appointments to said department shall be made. Any layoffs in accordance with this Section shall not be subject to appeal and hearing. Any willful violation hereof, or violation through culpable negligence, shall be sufficient ground to authorize the discharge of any officer or employee. SECTION 16. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. -13- (A). Any member who is called to serve in any branch of the military service of the United States shall, upon his return, and with an honorable discharge, maintain his priority rights within this ordinance, and in accordance with the State Military and Veterans Code Section 395. (B). On recommendation of the Department Head and approval of the City Manager, leave of absence without compensa- tion not to exceed one (1) year for any purpose may be taken by written consent of the City Council, and temporary appointments may be made to fill such vacancies in the manner herein provided for permanent appointments. Such leaves may be extended for not to exceed one (1) additional year. SECTION 17. STATUS OF PRESENT EMPLOYEES. (A). Any person holding a position or employment in- cluded in the Classified Service who, on the effective date of this ordi- nance shall have served continuously in such position, or in some other position included in the Classified Service, for one (1) year prior to inclusion in the Classified Service, shall assume regular status in the Classified Service in the position held on such effective date without qualifying examination or working tests, and shall thereafter be sub- ject in all respects to the provisions of this ordinance, except those with the rating of detective and patrolman assigned to motorcycle duty, such assignments shall be made administratively and are not a part of the Classified Service. (B). Any other persons holding positions or employment in the Classified Service shall be regarded as holding their positions or employments as probationers who are serving out the balance of their probationary periods before obtaining regular status. The pro- bationary periods shall be computed from the date of appointment or employment. SECTION 18. HIRING OF EXTRA EMPLOYEES. Depart- ment Heads, with the approval and sanction of the City Manager, may, -14- during an emergency or during vacation periods, hire such extra em- ployees as may be needed to properly conduct said departments at a compensation to be fixed by the City Council. These extra employees may be selected from the employment list at the option of the heads of said departments. However, no extra employee shall be hired for a period in excess of one hundred eighty (180) calendar days or six (6) months in any fiscal year, and the hiring of extra employees as herein provided for, shall not in any way mean, or be construed to mean, that said extra employee shall be under probation as defined by Section 10 hereof. SECTION 19. AMENDMENTS OF THIS ORDINANCE. The City Council may from time to time by ordinance, add additional departments, appointive officers or employees of the City to the list originally designated in this ordinance creating a Merit System. SECTION 20. POLITICAL ACTIVITY. No person hold- ing an office or position in any department placed under the Person- nel Merit System, pursuant to the provisions of this ordinance, with respect to any municipal political campaign, shall seek or accept elec- tion, nomination or appointment as an officer of a political club or organization, or serve as a member of a committee of such club or organization or circle, or seek signatures except where it pertains to this ordinance, or act as a worker at the polls, or distribute badges or pamphlets, dodgers, or handbills of any kind favoring or opposing any candidate for election, or for nomination to municipal office; pro- vided, however, that nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to prevent any such officer or employee from becoming or continuing to be a member of a political club or organization, or from attendance at a political meeting, or from enjoying entire freedom from all inter- ference in casting his vote. SECTION 21. SOLICITATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS. No officer or employee of the City, or any other person, directly or in- directly shall solicit or receive, from anyone on an eligible list or em- -15- '` o � 3968 ployed in the service of the City any assessment, subscription, contri- bution, or political service, for aiding or assisting in the campaign for election, or appointment to any political or official position in the ser- vice of the City, or for any political purpose whatever. SECTION 22. DISCRIMINATION. No person in the com- petitive service or seeking admission thereto shall in any way be favored or discriminated against in his employment because of politi- cal affiliations, race, or religious belief. SECTION 23. APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS. The City Council shall appropriate such funds as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this ordinance. SECTION 24. RIGHT TO CONTRACT FOR SPECIAL SER- VICE. The City Manager shall consider and make recommendations to the Council regarding the extent to which the City should contract for the performance of technical services in connection with the de- velopment and administration of any phase of the personnel program and the Council may contract for the performance of such services with any qualified person or agency. SECTION 25. WORDS, DEFINITION AND SIGNIFICANCE. Words used in this ordinance in the present tense include the future as well as the present; words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter; the singular includes the plural, and the plural the singular; writing includes printing and typewriting; and the word rremployee" includes appointive officers. SECTION 26. SEVERABILITY. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this ordinance for any reason is held by a court to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The Council declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespec- tive of the fact that any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase should be held to be unconstitutional or invalid. -16- SECTION 27. PENALTY FOR VIOLATION. Any person, firm or corporation charged with the administration of this ordinance who is guilty of violating any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon a conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500. 00 or by imprisonment in the City Jail or County Jail for a period of not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 28. That Ordinance No. 562 is hereby repealed. SECTION 29. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall become effective at midnight on the tenth day next following the date that the vote hereon is declared by the City Council of the City of El Segundo, California. Passed, approved and adopted by the people of the City of E1 Segundo, California, at the General Municipal Election held in said City on Tuesday, the 10th day of April, 1962. ATTEST: City Clerk (SEAL) 3969 Mayor of e City of egun o, California. -17- i I CLERK' S CERTIFICATE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) SS. CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. I, EUNICE U. CREASON, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 586, is a full, true and correct original of Ordi- nance No. 586 of the said City of El Segundo, California, entitled: " AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, CREATING A PERSONNEL MERIT SYSTEM FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. " which was duly and regularly passed, approved and adopted by the electors of the City of E1 Segundo, California, at the General Munici- pal Election held in said City on Tuesday, the 10th day of April, 1962, and that it was so passed and adopted by the following vote at said elec- tion, to wit: "YES, " 1497 Votes "Shall Ordinance No. entitled: 'AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, CREATING A PERSONNEL MERIT SYSTEM FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND OTHER DE- "NO, " 331 Votes PARTMENTS, ' be adopted and become effective ? ". and that, therefore, more than a majority of the electors voting upon the question of the adoption of said ordinance having voted in favor thereof, the said ordinance shall accordingly become effective according to its terms and as provided by law. I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions of Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of California, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 586 was duly and regularly published according to law and the order of the City Council of said City in the El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated within the said City and that the same was so published therein on the following date, to wit: April 26, 1962 (SEAL) . r) ...a • 4.1 4 Affidavit of Publication STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) as CITY OF EL SEGUNDO ) .... arlom .... Newcomb ............... ............ ................. being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That She is, and at all of the times hereinafter mentioned was, a citizen of the United States of America, over the age of eighteen years, and a resident of the County of Los Angeles, State of California; thatS^'he was, at, and during all of the time of the publication of the instrument hereunto attached the ............ pr.. in. cipal .... cle.r. ]K ........... .. .............................. ............................... Of EL SEGUNDO HERALD, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated weekly in the City of El Segundo, in said County and State; that said newspaper has been so published and circulated at regular intervals of one week for more than one year immediately preceding the publication of the instrument hereunto annexed; that said newspaper is, and was, at all of the times herein mentioned, a newspaper of general circulation within the meaning of Section 4460 of the Political Code of the State of California; that as provided by said section, said newspaper is published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a general character, having a -bona fide subscription list of payirg subscribers; that said newspaper- is not and was not at any of the times herein referred to, devoted to the interests, or published for the entertainment or instruction of a particular class, profession, trade, calling, race or denomination, or for any number of such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations, and that said newspaper is not devoted to or published for, nor was it at any of the times herein mentioned devoted to or published for the purpose, whether avowed or otherwise, of entertaining or instructing such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denomin- ations, or any of such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations. That the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument hereunto attached on page .... ........ numbered ............................................................. - -- ........................................---. ..............................- ---.................... ............................... hereof in all respects, including subject matter, and size and arrangement of type, is a full true and correct copy of the said notice, ordinance, resolution or instrument, in words and figures exactly as published; that the same was set and printed in type not smaller than nonpareil and that the body of the same was preceded with words printed in black -face type not smaller than nonpareil, describing and expressing in general terms the purpose and character of the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument intended to be published, as will appear from an inspection of the said annexed Instru- ment; that the ... DiC1iAaJA- CR. .... No.•..... 8.6 _. . of which the annexed is a printed copy as hereinabove stated, was published and printed in said news- paper at least .................1-... week ......... by .............. .................... consecutive publication ......... commencing on the ....2.6th -o.. day of ........................ April ........ ...... A. D. 1.9.62 and ending on the .............26th... day of .... ................ .._....... April ....... A. D. 19- 62. -.., and as often during said time as said newspaper was regu- larlyissued, to-wit: .. . .. ... .......................... .° -----..........._._............--.......------.....- -----.......................... ............. ............................... - . ......... Apr. il... 2. 6.,. 19. 62...........---........--- .........--- .................. -- .... - - - -• ...................................................... ...... .............. ........ . .. ........... ..................................................................... _.......... -- -- . ....................... ........................... . . .. ....... . .................................................. tea... . r .. . Subscribed and swein to before me this .. .......... day of ....... e ............................. A. D. 19...G...L City clerk of the City of El Segundo, County of Los Angeles, State of California. By............. ...... ................................. ............................... Deputy City Clerk of said City.