Public utilities: municipal districts: civil service exemptions.

Under existing law, the general manager of a municipal utility district is required to adopt a civil service system for the selection, examination, employment, classification, advancement, suspension, and discharge of employees. Existing law allows the board of directors of a municipal utility district with 600 or more employees to appoint up to 15 employees to positions requiring peculiar and exceptional qualifications who are exempt from the district civil service system. Additionally, the board of a district which has owned and operated an electric distribution system for at least 8 years and has a population of 250,000 or more may determine that additional positions be exempt from district civil service, so long as the total number of these exempt positions does not exceed 2% of the total civil service positions of the district. This bill would raise the maximum percentage of exempt employees the board of a district meeting the necessary requirements may appoint from 2% of the total civil service positions of the district to 5%.