2 Minneapolis, Minn.Code of Ordinances § 21.10. In contrast, the Fire Chief is limited in his authority to the operations of the Fire Department. 9 Minneapolis, Minn.Code of Ordinances § 173.20. Thus, even though Chief Forte may have had final authority to determine whom to promote to Arson Investigator and also to design the particular procedures to, be used when doing so, he was not authorized to establish policy regarding employment practices, including policy regarding consideration of an employee’s union status or activity in making promotion decisions. See Greensboro, 64 F.3d at 966. As a matter of law, that authority rests with the Civil Service Commission and the City Coordinator, not the Fire Chief. Cf. Bechtel v. City of Belton, 250 F.3d 1157, 1158, 1161 (8th Cir.2001) (<HOLDING>). In sum, without authority delegated to him,
holding no municipal liability in light of city administrators ultimate authority to approve or rescind departmental personnel decisions despite evidence that the fire chief was in charge of establishing rules regula tions policies and procedures for the operation of the fire department holding that city may remedy imbalance in the composition of the fire department created by traditional segregative practices holding that a jurys finding that a city had delegated its final policymaking authority in the area of law enforcement to a city police chief was supported by the evidence and warranted imposing liability upon the city holding that obligation to pay mortgage on home was satisfied by payment of fire insurance proceeds where husband maintained fire insurance policy holding that the operation of the established laws of nature in the familiar forms of combustion the tendency of fire to persist when once started in wood and the effects of wind on fire are matters of common knowledge