Classified employees: part-time playground positions.

(1) Existing law requires school districts to employ persons for positions not requiring certification qualifications and to classify, as defined, these persons. Under existing law, these employees make up the classified service. Existing law exempts a person employed in a part-time playground position from the classified service, where the person is not otherwise employed in a classified position. Existing law requires that a position not defined as requiring certification qualifications and not specifically exempted from the classified service is a part of the classified service. This bill would delete the provision exempting a person employed in a part-time playground position from the classified service, where the person is not otherwise employed in a classified position, thereby making that person a part of the classified service. To the extent this bill would impose new duties on school districts, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.