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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION NORTH OLMSTED, OHIO MINUTES - NOVEMBER 15, 1984 The regular meeting of the North Olmsted Civil Service Commission was called to order at 7:33 p.m. by Chairman Phillip Huffman. In attendance were Commissioners McKay and Gareau, Secretary Judy Gilbert, chief VanKu—ren and Captain T. Marsh, and Sandi We'st-eff-eIU. Appointment of Secretary: After some discussion, Sandi Westerfeld was nominated and approved as Secretary to the Civil Service Commission. Appeals: Outgoing Secretary, Judy Gilbert, informed the Commission that four candidates that had been rejected for the Firefighter exam due to improperly completed applications (checks) would be appealing. They are as follows: Mr. Stanfield, Mr. Dickson and Mr. Walsh. The fourth candidate did not attend the meeting and, there- fore, did not appeal. Also appealing was Mr. L. Coreno of the North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line and Russell M. Angle, who ranked #11 on the Patrolman's list. After a short dis- cussion regarding the application and the confusion as to how checks should be made payable and where they should be sent, it was decided that Sandi Westerfeld would try to improve the application in that regard. Mr. L. Coreno: Mr. Coreno was sent a letter regarding absenteeism in April, 1983. On October 19, 1984 he was notified by Kenneth C. Mues, General Manager of the Bus Line, of a ten day suspension for absenteeism. On October 25 Mr. Coreno sent a letter to the Commission requesting a hearing. Mr. Coreno's request or a hearing was granted, but Mr. Mues was not notified of this and, therefore, was __ot present. Mr. Coreno stated that his days off during December, 1982 were due to a work related injury which resulted in surgery in January of 1983, accounting for approximately 70 full days off during recovery. At this point he was under Worker's Compensation and returned to work with approval of his physician. He stated that he has a 32% disability according to the State of Ohio. During spring of 1983 Mr. Coreno began divorce pro- ceedings and since then has had problems with his children, of whom he has custody, one of whom is seeing a phychologist. This requires Mr. Coreno to visit the phychologist with his child and he stated that he could not set the times of appointments that would be convenient for his work schedule. Mr. Coreno understands that he has approximately 88.52 hours of sick leave remaining and feels that his suspension is unfair because he has been a good employee in attendance before his divorce and the problems this created. Mr. Coreno stated that he gave his employer plenty of notice for his appointments at the psychologist. Mr. Coreno was asked if he could have taken vacation time, one or two days at a time, and he stated that he could not. He was also asked if he could switch some days off to cover his appointments with other employees, and he stated that as far as he knew he couldn't do that, according to the new rules. Mr. Coreno was advised by the Commission that they would get back to him once the Commission could ascertain the facts from Mr. Mues. Mr. Stanfield: Mr. Stanfield's application was adequately filled out, but his check was made payable to the North Olmsted Civil Service. Mr. Stanfield felt his check was cashable and couldn't see why he was rejected on these grounds. He was informed what several applicants made the same mistake and that they were also rejected. He as advised that the Commission could not make an exception for him without making exception for all the others. Mr. Stanfield thanked the Commission for hearing his appeal.