Personnel Commission
The Personnel Commission is responsible for the management of personnel functions related to the Classified Service. These functions include recruitment, selection, classification, and rules and regulations development and administration.
The Commission consists of three citizens from the school district community who are appointed for three-year terms. One commissioner is appointed by the Board of Education, one is appointed by the employee organization and the third is appointed by the first two.
The Personnel Commission has an independent staff and budget. The Commission staff consists of a Personnel Director and support staff. The Personnel Director is responsible for the administration of the Commission's rules and regulations and acts as the Commission's professional expert in all areas of personnel management under the Commission's authority.
Personnel Commissioners
- Charlene Metoyer, Chairperson - District Board Appointee
- Tristan L. Aley, Vice-Chairperson - Joint Appointee
- Susan Meyer, Commissioner - Classified Employees' Union Appointee
Charlene Metoyer, Chairperson - District Board Appointee
Charlene Metoyer is a retired educator who has served the Newport-Mesa community for more than 20 years, working as an administrative intern, teacher and principal before serving eight years as a school board member. She has lived in the District since 1976, and all of her children attended Newport-Mesa schools. Ms. Metoyer was appointed to the Personnel Commission as the Newport-Mesa Unified School District’s Board designee in December 2022. Ms. Metoyer’s current term runs through December 2025.
Tristan L. Aley, Vice-Chairperson - Joint Appointee
Susan Meyer, Commissioner - Classified Employees' Union Appointee
Susan Meyer is a resident of Costa Mesa and was reappointed to the Personnel Commission in December 2011. Ms. Meyer has served as a classified employee of the North Orange County Community College District (Cypress Campus) and currently serves as a Labor Relations Representative with the Orange Field Office of California School Employees Association. She was originally appointed as the CSEA representative to the Personnel Commission in 1996 and served through December 2002. Ms. Meyer’s current term runs through December 2026.
Resources
Merit System
Who started it?
The merit system (civil service) is not new. Early in the 1800s spoils patronage was well established as a method of filling government jobs. It took the tragedy of the shooting of President Garfield by a disgruntled office seeker in 1881 to focus enough attention on the practice of patronage to spark a legislative reform. Two years later Congress passed the Civil Service Act of 1883 (The Pendleton Act) which set up the first civil service system for federal employees to guard against patronage appointments.
In the following years state and local civil service systems flourished, but it was not until 1936 that the first merit system law for school districts was established. California was the leader when, as a result of a disgraceful patronage system in one of our largest school districts, more than 700 employees were fired on the day after an election to make room for political spoilsmen.
Who uses it?
There are over 100 merit system school districts in California which employ almost 60% of the total classified (noncertificated) school employees in the state. A merit system may be voted into a district by local board of education action, by a majority vote of the district's classified employees, or by a majority vote of the voting electors of the school district.
WHAT ARE THE PRINCIPLES OF THE MERIT SYSTEM?
- Selection and promotion based on merit and fitness, as determined by competitive examinations.
- Retention on the basis of demonstrated performance.
- Classification of positions on the basis of the duties and responsibilities actually performed.
- Compensation pursuant to the like pay for like work principle.
- Appeals from administrative action before a neutral third party.
Who administers it?
The PERSONNEL COMMISSION is the mainstay of the merit system. It is an independent body composed of three persons appointed for three-year staggered terms. Commissioners are lay persons who must be known adherents of the merit principle. The personnel commission is responsible for maintaining a merit system for classified employees of the school system and for fostering the advancement of a career service for such employees. To execute these responsibilities the California Education Code provides that personnel commissioners shall classify positions, hear appeals, and prescribe functions as provided by Sections 45220 to 45320 and 88060 to 88139, inclusive, of the state Education Code.
Who needs it?
With the advent of collective bargaining in the public educational field, functions performed by personnel commissioners take on added significance. The necessity for objective information and classification decisions unaltered by labor or management pressures, protection of the rights of non-represented employees, and an independent body which can hear employee appeals in an impartial manner are all vital to the efficient and economic operations of a school district and to the benefit of the general public.
Rules and Regulations
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Commission Agendas and Minutes
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Contact Us
Kristen Clark
Administrative Director I, Classified Personnel
714-424-5048
V-Esther Caldwell
Administrative Assistant - Confidential
714-424-5047
Christi Winslow
Human Resources Analyst
714-424-5049
Theresa Nguyen
Associate Human Resources Analyst
714-424-5008
TBD
Associate Human Resources Analyst
714-424-5079
Elizabeth Peterson
Human Resources Technician
714-424-7531
Valeria Martinez-Soria
Human Resources Technician
714-424-5046