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CIVIL SERVICE MEETING - MARCH 24, 1988 - 4:30 P.M. Motion made by Madeline Brookshire to approve the Civil Service minutes of the February meeting as read. Present at this meeting: Commission members; Madeline Brookshire and Chairman, Robert Wendt, Police Chief Thomas Marsh Mr. Wendt: We had a brief discussion at our last meeting concerning the presentation from West Shore. I don't know what your feeling is toward that - what was your impression of that from your standpoint in terms of do you think this is feasible for you to do - would you prefer to do it this way? Chief Marsh: Thd agility test? Wendt: Yes. Chief: Well since the commission handled it in the past I must say I'm not well versed on it. But, I was impressed with the presentation they made and the background and study they have done to develop what they assume to be a good, viable test for police candidates. I would think that if the costs were in the area that the commission had paid in the past that it would certainly be worth considering, because now you're placing it completely in their hands and there is certainly no prejudice on the part of the commission or the police department as a seperate entity is taking care of it and will give you the results. If the cost is way out of line I can't say that we've had any problem with the one that we used in the past. Wendt: Our main consideration here and I know that Madeline has not been involved in it. Tom was briefly, and I've gone through it a couple of times already, the commission did handle it themselves basically and I think the question I asked you last time was there any problem with the physical part of it, I mean the men that you received were they capable of doing what you wanted them to do? Well., you're answer at the time was "yes". Marsh: Right. Wendt: And then in reviewing we still do not have a fixed cost of West Shore information other than what they indicated to us. It would be a lot more costly to do that kind of thing per man than when we do it with 25 people there because they still have to rent the facility, which we would too, we would still use the high school facility, and then in addition, we pay our people who do monitoring a very small stipend; whereas in their case there is a lot more dollars involved. So, at this point in time with the money crunch and everybody looking at everything in terms of dollars we may explore it. I'd like to see it in operation and then see what the actual cost is going to be, and if we see that it's a standardized thing well then, hey I have no problem with myself -personally and -the commission would have to rule, but I'd like to see it myself. Now is that's alright with you in this point in time. Chief Marsh agreed. Wendt: The men that we saw do have to have a doctors thing, we will explore however, and that's one thing we need to do, that on the eye thing , we will try to do that this time to make sure the person can see the dang eye chart before we send them to you and we find out they got 20/70 or 20/100 vision which is unacceptable to any one of our criterian, of.course. So, I think that is going to be the way I see