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2 <br /> subsequently be ineligible to receive the Board-approved employee performance award of <br /> $500 or $1,000. <br /> Article VII provides, "Each employee should be evaluated on the employee's anniversary date <br /> of their original appointment or date of last promotion." Furthermore, the Ordinance defines a <br /> "promotion" as "the reassignment of an employee to a position or classification having a higher <br /> salary range than the position from which the reassignment is made." Best practices would <br /> allow employees to have annual performance evaluations in accordance with the anniversary <br /> date of their original appointment, or the date of their last promotion. Staff believes that these <br /> procedures, or operational issues, are best contained in the Administrative Rules and <br /> Regulations. <br /> All of the procedures contained within the current Ordinance would be moved to the <br /> Administrative Rules and Regulations (see Attachment B) with a change that would allow the <br /> above mentioned employees to be evaluated in accordance with their original appointment <br /> date or the date of their last promotion, if applicable. With Board approval, the employees <br /> would be eligible to receive the employee performance award based upon the performance <br /> rating assigned for the evaluation period. Employees who have completed a WPPR cycle will <br /> maintain their existing review date. <br /> FINANCIAL IMPACT: Funds have been budgeted in FY 2012-13 to potentially provide an <br /> employee performance award of $500 or $1,000 to the twenty-three employees whose <br /> positions were reclassified effective July 1, 2012. <br /> RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends the Board approve the amendment to <br /> Article VII, §§ 28-82 through 28-84 and authorize the County Manager to make eligible for FY <br /> 2012-13 employee performance awards those employees who were promoted through <br /> reclassifications effective July 1, 2012. <br />