From Mayor Hancock

Looks like the Mayor has been doing a lot of imagining himself:

RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE MAYOR

Change Charter language to enable the Manager of Public Works to administer Local Maintenance Districts - Ask City Council to refer to the ballot in November.

Authorize members of Board of Equalization to assign designees. Ask City Council to refer to the ballot in November.

Simplify description of department duties by removing "exclusively" from categorized duties in various departments in Charter. Ask City Council to refer to the ballot in November.

Rename Department of Environmental Health to Department of Environment and Health and clarify public health roles and responsibilities to eliminate redundancy Further analysis and discussion required.

Explore restructure of Civil Service Commission (CSC), Office of Human Resources (OHR) and Career Service Authority (CSA), moving recruitment, hiring and promotion of all employees to OHR, placing discipline for all uniform employees in a CSC-like entity and all discipline for non-uniform employees in a CSA-like entity. Further analysis and discussion is required.

Move prescription of Salaries and Benefits to ordinance. Further analysis and discussion is required.

Clarify rules of the OHR/CSA discipline and appeal process. Further analysis anddiscussion is required.

Conduct a comprehensive review of Pay and Benefits to identify innovative practices. Further analysis and discussion required.

Create Department of Finance and Administration to consolidate appropriate city functions Further analysis and discussion is required.

Modern - Relevant to Current & Future Needs

Specify head of Denver Sheriff's Department is the constitutional Sheriff and is named Sheriff in Charter and ordinances. Ask City Council to refer to the ballot in November

Allow Manager of Aviation up to 5 discretionary appointments of executive managers. Ask City Council to refer to the ballot in November.

Change titles of department heads from "Manager" to "Executive Director". Ask City Council to refer to the ballot in November.

Eliminate 25% cap on Public Safety Cadets moving into recruit classes. Ask City Council to refer to the ballot in November.

Include Division of Real Estate in the Charter as a unit of Dept. of Finance. No Action

Streamline and simplify language to focus on broad functions of each department and standardize level of detail for departments. Further analysis and discussion is required.

Organize Charter by function, rather than department. Further analysis and discussion is required.

Eliminate requirement that Fire Chief be appointed from the classified service and allow classified service candidates to be drawn from any rank. Ask City Council to refer to the ballot in November.