<br><br>90.140 Personnel director -- Appointment -- Qualifications -- Removal -- Duties -- <br>Employment of chief examiner -- Certification of payroll changes. <br>(1) The board shall employ a personnel director who shall be the administrative officer <br>of the board. The personnel director shall be, at the time of appointment, a person <br>familiar, and in sympathy, with the principles, and experienced in the methods and <br>technique, of personnel administration on the merit basis and a person of recognized <br>character and ability. <br>(2) Beginning January 1, 1973, the personnel director shall be appointed for a term of <br>one (1) year and shall serve thereafter on a year to year basis unless notified in <br>writing thirty (30) days before the year expires that he will not be reappointed; <br>provided however that the personnel director may be removed at any time only for <br>cause and after public hearing by the board and after at least ten (10) days' notice <br>shall have been given to the said director, which notice shall contain a copy of the <br>charges preferred against him, and the decision of the board thereon shall be final. <br>At such hearing the personnel director may be represented by counsel. <br>(3) The personnel director shall be the secretary-treasurer of the board and shall attend <br>all the meetings thereof; shall set up and direct the actual work of the board; <br>supervise and direct the work of the employees thereof; make such investigations as <br>may be deemed desirable and report thereon to the board. The personnel director <br>shall submit to the board not later than the first day of November of each year an <br>annual report on the operations of the board for the preceding fiscal year, and shall <br>discharge all such other duties as the board may require. <br>(4) The board shall employ a chief examiner who shall be professionally qualified and <br>experienced in the art of testing, and who shall formulate, give, grade, and retain <br>control of, all written tests as required by the board, and said chief examiner shall <br>report to the board the results of all tests given and he shall be solely responsible to <br>the board. The job of personnel director may not be combined with the job of chief <br>examiner. The chief examiner shall be responsible only to the civil service board <br>and shall perform such other duties as the board may require. <br>(5) The director of finance of the city shall immediately certify to the personnel director <br>the name of any person in the classified service added to or removed from the <br>payroll. <br>Effective: July 13, 1984 <br>History: Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 280, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended <br>1972 Ky. Acts ch. 73, sec. 1. --Created 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 16, sec. 3. <br><br>