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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION 5200 Dover Center Road • North Olmsted, Ohio 44070 Phone: 777-8000 Ext. 232 Fax: 777-5889 CIVIL SERVICE MEETING MINUTES: October 18, 1993 PRESENT: Chairman Jim Hines, Commissioners Glenn Marks and Lois Zolar, Secretary Tracy Ice GUESTS: Mr. Gundy, Ron Wilamosky, Ronald Janetzke, John Filak, Holly Kish, Sandra Stuart, Pat Scott, Rita Wingenfeld, Tom Demaline,.Mike:Gareau MINUTES OF PREVIOUS' 'MEETING -APPROVED AS=READ APPEAL TO SECRETARIAL TYPING TES=T '(Ho:Tly Kfs,h,and Sandra Stuart): I am Ron J;anetzke and I` repr'esena Ho11y Kish =and '.Sandra Stuart in this proceeding:' It is `our basic position that these employees passed the written exam. and then they failed the typing exam ;-�We•;have documentaton'to show tha.tthese,---employees dol, not type letters. The typing test, that was ,given was `,not.; on adequate typewriters. They do forms, spread sheets, take:raw:data> and put it together="on forms. This is not they type of `test that -was- given i The type of;', test that _. was given was to test your speed„' These ;fobs. ,are requiring a different type of skill: We; .•t h' nk that the Cavil Service; Commission should void their own =test as far as>typng goes. Maybe ;the City and the Civi'1 Service Commission would •,.wwan t,,,.to use a. different type of test that, p•ert'ains ;more for this type of job ' We have letters from their bosses that state they are good employees Mike Gareau sa d;that he wrote a letter to the CiviI Service Commission m`emb`ers °;” "I't indicated that you had' to: develop a test that would adequately test. for the position. I am no -t completely familiar to what these t;woemployees do. Should.ther.e'be another classification to, .those=;;who-en-ter data and therefore a different test? The Commission has' 'done`.•."a,fairly goed,., j-ob in ,,'the past. I have to listen to what everyone. -..has to"say because:I'can not pass judgement at this point. - Jim Hines - The question that comes up is does the city have a valid job description. The job description that we received states a secretarial II position not a data entry position. I feel that a data entry position is totally different from a secretarial position. The city's requirement for secretaries is that each candidate must type 45 wpm or better to be on our eligibility list. In the future, we do plan to test all candidates on a computer. Ron Wilamosky - said that the secretarial representative to the over all position. some of the areas of the job description, tasks. If a secretary changes jobs in the require more typing or other parts of the have not done yet. job description is a good Most secretarial II's do they do not do all the city, that new job could job description that they