RESOLUTION NO. 2026- _
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE
STAFFING STRUCTURE OF THE CITY MANAGER'S
OFFICE AND THE MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS
DEPARTMENT
WHEREAS, Cityof Newport Beach ("City")Charter Section 601 provides thatthe City Council shall establishthe number, titles,qualifications,powers, duties, and compensation of allCityofficersand employees;
WHEREAS, the City Manager's Office("CMO") periodicallyevaluates the City's organizationalstructure and staffingallocationsto align personnel resources with departmental needs, as partof ongoing effortsto ensure operationalefficiency; WHEREAS, the Municipal Operations Department ("MOD") is responsible for providing general services, including beach maintenance and cleaning, street maintenance, facilitiesand equipment maintenance, park and landscaping maintenance, refuse collection,and Citytree maintenance;
WHEREAS, the City,and otherjurisdictionsthroughout California,are requiredto implement and comply with recent complex state-mandated recycling and landifll diversionrequirements that are challengingto monitor and maintain while continuing to provide a high levelof serviceto the community;
WHEREAS, the CMO has identifiedthat MOD has an operational need for additionaladministrativeand analyticalsupport specificallyrelatedtorefuseand recycling services;
WHEREAS, to ensure MOD has adequate staffingto support refuse and recycling services,the City Manager recommends revisingthe staffingstructureof both the CMO and MOD departments such that one (1) full-timeManagement Fellow position be transferredfrom the CMO to MOD and upgraded to full-timeAssistant Management Analyst;and
WHEREAS, a budget amendment is not requiredto appropriatefunds to cover the compensation differentialbetween the Management Fellowpositionand the Assistant Management Analyst positionsalary ranges because MOD has sufficientfunding available to cover the differential for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2026-27.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolvesas follows:
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Section 1: One (1) full-time Management Fellow position shall be eliminated from the City Manager’s Office and one (1) full-time Assistant Management Analyst shall be added to the Municipal Operations Department at such time as the full time Assistant Management Analyst is hired by the City . The salary range, job description and classification specifications of the Assistant Management Analyst position have been previously established by the City Council.
Section 2: The recitals provided in this resolution are true and correct and are incorporated into the operative part of this resolution.
Section 3: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this resolution is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this resolution. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this resolution, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Section 4: The City Council finds the adoption of this resolution is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378) of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Division 6, Chapter 3, because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly.
Resolution No. 2026-
Section 5: This resolutionshalltake effectimmediatelyupon itsadoption by the CityCouncil,and the CityClerkshallcertifythe vote adopting the resolution.
ADOPTED this22nd day of September, 2026.
Lauren Kleiman
Mayor
ATTEST:
Lena Shumway
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY TTORNEY'S OFFI
Aaron C. Harp
CityAttorney