For City Council Meeting [April 24, 2018]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Robb Steel, Interim City Administrator
FROM: Lucy M. Garcia, Director of Human Resources & Risk Management
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Request City Council to Adopt Resolution No. 7328 Appointing an Interim Police Captain and Approve the Employment Agreement with Raul Martinez.
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BACKGROUND:
On April 10, 2018, staff requested Council approval to proceed with the recruitment of a Police Captain. One of two Police Captains has announced his intent to retire on May 12, 2018, leaving the City with an immediate need for a seasoned professional to serve as Interim Police Captain while the City conducts its open recruitment to formally and permanently fill the vacancy.
Mr. Raul Martinez, former Police Captain in Rialto, and former Police Lieutenant in Baldwin Park and Acting Police Lieutenant and Sergeant in Rialto, with over twenty-one years' experience as a police officer, is available to assist the City in an interim capacity. Mr. Martinez possesses extensive experience in the field of police work including command, administration and reporting, crime prevention and patrol, property and evidence, community relations, grants, records, communications, traffic, animal control, internal affairs and investigations.
Mr. Martinez is a retiree under the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). In that regard, to remain retired, Mr. Martinez can only work for Rialto -- a CalPERS employer -- pursuant to a retired annuitant appointment and related restrictions including work limited to 960 hours in a fiscal year and compensation at the hourly rate of a regular employee in the same capacity.
In addition, CalPERS requires the City have an active recruitment for the permanent Police Captain position, as stipulated in Government Code Section 21221(h), which reads in part: "A retired person may serve without reinstatement from retirement or loss or interruption ...
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