(a) Within one year after the effective date of this Charter that City Council shall create and enact a Personnel Merit System and establish a Personnel Merit Commission composed of three (3) registered electors.

(b) The Personnel Merit System shall include all city employees within the provision including the police and fire department chiefs and exclude from the system shall be the City Manager, department heads excepting the police and fire department heads, elective officers, appointees of Council, appointed members of boards and commissions, persons employed to make or conduct a special inquiry, investigation, examination or installation or audit.

(c) The Personnel Merit Commission shall have jurisdiction and final authority to hear and determine appeals by any aggrieved employee who has been subject to disciplinary action of any kind.

(d) The Personnel Merit Commission shall promulgate its own rules and regulations consistent with implementing ordinances adopted by Council.