The Civil Service Commission is a five-member board, appointed by the Mayor, with each member serving a six-year term. The Commission meets in a public session and is responsible for:

• Creating and monitoring rules and policies for the City’s civil service
• Conducting employee discipline hearings
• Developing new job classifications and duty statements, and abolishing obsolete ones, and update existing classifications
• Testing and certifying individuals in classified service
• Managing and maintaining civil service records
• Enforcing the City residency requirement pursuant to Charter Amendment 74