(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Charter Ordinance, the incumbents in all appointive offices and positions of employment appointed prior to 7:00 p.m. on April 12, 2005, whose terms have not expired or who are serving indefinite terms at the time of the first meeting of the newly elected Council shall not be subject to competitive tests as a condition of continuation in the same office or position of employment and shall continue in their respective offices and positions of employment under this Charter Ordinance until their respective terms expire or until their services are terminated in accordance with the provisions of this Charter Ordinance, ordinary ordinances, or any administrative or personnel codes subsequently enacted. It is hereby declared to be the desire of the people of the city that every such appointive officer or employee shall be continued in the service of the city if he or she is qualified and if the good of the city permits, but this general statement of desire shall not limit the power of appointment and removal.

(b) No officer or employee who has been appointed to a position in the competitive class of the Civil Service System of the city prior to the time of approval of this Charter Ordinance by the electors of the city shall be removed from the appointive office or position of employment he or she holds at the time of such approval, or thereafter, except in the manner prescribed by the civil service statutes, ordinances, regulations, or applicable memoranda of agreement in force at the time such removal is sought, or in the manner prescribed by any subsequently adopted personnel code.

(c) The incumbent members of statutory and nonstatutory boards, commissions, and other plural authorities appointed prior to April 12, 2005, at 7:00 p.m. shall serve until their terms expire and thereafter until their successors are selected and qualify. (C.O. 94 § 30, 7-20-04.)