2006 Ohio Revised Code - 329.02. Powers and duties of director; employment status; coordination with other county institutions.

§ 329.02. Powers and duties of director; employment status; coordination with other county institutions.
 

Under the control and direction of the board of county commissioners, the county director of job and family services shall have full charge of the county department of job and family services. The director shall prepare the annual budget estimate of the department and submit it to the board of county commissioners. Before submitting the budget estimate to the board of county commissioners, the director shall consider the recommendations of the county family services planning committee relative to such estimate. The director, with the approval of the board of county commissioners, shall appoint all necessary assistants and superintendents of institutions under the jurisdiction of the department, and all other employees of the department, excepting that the superintendent of each such institution shall appoint all employees therein and only the board of county commissioners may appoint administrators under section 329.021 [329.02.1] of the Revised Code. Except for administrators appointed under section 329.021 [329.02.1] of the Revised Code, the assistants and other employees of the department shall be in the classified civil service, and may not be placed in or removed to the unclassified service. If no eligible list is available, provisional appointment shall be made until such eligible list is available. 
 

Each director appointed on or after the effective date of this amendment shall be in the unclassified civil service and serve at the pleasure of the board of county commissioners. If a person holding a classified position in the department is appointed as director on or after the effective date of this amendment and is later removed by the board, except for a reason listed in section 124.34 of the Revised Code, the person so removed has the right to resume the position the person held in the classified service immediately prior to being appointed as director, or if that position no longer exists or has become an unclassified position, the person shall be appointed to a position in the classified service that the board, with the approval of the director of administrative services, determines is equivalent to the position the person held immediately prior to being appointed as director. 
 

The board of county commissioners, except as provided in this chapter, may provide by resolution for the coordination of the operations of the department and those of any county institution whose board or managing officer is appointed by the board of county commissioners. 
 

The board of county commissioners may enter into a written contract with a county director of job and family services specifying terms and conditions of the director's employment. The period of the contract shall not exceed three years. In addition to any review specified in such a contract, the contract shall be subject to review and renegotiation for a period of thirty days, from the sixtieth to the ninetieth days after the beginning of the term of any newly elected commissioner. Such a contract shall in no way abridge the right of the board to terminate the employment of the director as an unclassified employee at will, but may specify terms and conditions of any such termination. 
 

HISTORY: GC § 2511-2; 120 v 430, § 2; 122 v 266; Bureau of Code Revision, 10-1-53; 131 v 222 (Eff 8-23-65); 137 v H 383 (Eff 8-15-77); 141 v H 428 (Eff 12-23-86); 142 v H 231 (Eff 10-5-87); 145 v H 152 (Eff 7-1-93); 146 v H 501 (Eff 11-6-96); 147 v H 408 (Eff 10-1-97); 148 v H 471. Eff 7-1-2000.
 

The effective date is set by section 12(A) of HB 471.