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CIVIL SERVICE MINUTES - 3/23/89 <br />Page 2 <br />Mr. Wendt stated he did not know who the candidate was that got the nine <br />correct. However, the testing company told him that the candidate who <br />got nine correct was insignificant with respect to the test grading. <br />Mr. Wendt stated that the testing company checked the scares and the <br />situation seems to be that the top scorer was Sgt. O'Toole. The <br />commission will be getting this in writing from testing company sometime <br />this week. Mr. Wendt related he had the testing company check, and we <br />checked our records also, as to how Sgt. O'Toole, who was a Patrolman at <br />the time, did on the Sergeants test and it was found that he was number <br />1. Mr. Wendt further stated that when the testing company sends us the <br />paperwork he would be willing to have those present review it. Sgt. <br />Ruple questioned if the person getting nine of the twelve questions <br />correct if he would have answered the remaining questions correctly... <br />Mr. Wendt interruped by saying that was something we do not know as it <br />could be the one who answered the nine questions could have been the <br />number 2 candidate. We will know when the testing company.forwards to <br />the commission the scores of all candidates. We did not ask for all the <br />scores and identified Sgt. O'Toole with -a number. The testing company _ <br />does not work with the names of the candidates only the I.D. numbers. <br />Air. Wendt said the testing company did ask twelve questions on the <br />Lieutenant's test that were asked on the Sergeant's test. It was his <br />impression that the testing company did not realize that a test for <br />Lieutenant would follow the test for Sergeant this quickly. Sgt. Mason. <br />still feels that asking the twelve questions of two of the candidates <br />not recently tested for the Sergeant's promotional examination was.not <br />right due to.the fact that they did not have -recent recall on those <br />questions. Continuing to say that it was from their knowledge that they <br />anwered those twelve questions and if someone else had access to these <br />same questions two years ago then he had those given to him. <br />Yar. Stroh answered by saying he tended to disagree with this thinking <br />stated if he was to ask for the fact pattern for twelve of the questions <br />on the test given March 6, 1989 - could you give twelve questions from <br />that test? Mr. Stroh related that what is being said is if O'Toole took <br />the Sergeants exam two years ago he had access to these questions out of <br />his memory in 1989 when he came across them again. What Mr. Stroh is <br />suggesting is unless you have a photographic memory, or unless O'Toole <br />has a photographic memory...I looked at the Firefighter exam last <br />evening and I.read some of the questions and I cannot remember what <br />those questions were today, and that's less that 24 hours ago. Civil <br />Service offers security and this just happens to be a "fluke". At this <br />point Mrs. Brookshire stated that the letter came from two officers of <br />the Police Department prior to anyone knowing the results of the <br />Lieutenant's test. So the concerns were based solely on the experience <br />of taking the test. Mrs. Brookshire stated she did not know what these <br />officers wanted from the Commission as McCann was selected because of <br />continued on page 3 - <br />