Temporary employees shall be hired by the City and by the independent agencies on
the basis of temporary employee hours and not by employee positions. No temporary
employee may be hired into a permanent employee position, although this prohibition
shall not prevent the Council from authorizing the conversion of a permanent employee
position into temporary employee hours. For the general government, the maximum number
of temporary employee hours that will be available for use within each subfund during
a fiscal year shall be established in the budget ordinance, as it may from time to
time be amended, and may be allocated and reallocated by the Mayor within each subfund
as necessary. For the independent agencies, the maximum number of temporary employee
hours that will be available for use during a fiscal year shall be established in
the budget ordinance, as it may from time to time be amended. Nothing in this Section
shall prevent the Council from further regulating temporary employees in the budget
ordinance.
