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science. Mr. Farrell commented that he believes there should be something in this rule to justify giving a few extra credit points to residents of the city. The City of Cleveland has a residency credit, and if he was hired he would have six months to move into Cleveland. But if you're a resident of Cleveland you would get that one or two extra credit points. Mr. Thomay questioned how long someone has to have lived here to receive the credit. Mr. Farrell replied that he thinks if they can just establish that they are a resident from their drivers license or utility bills or something of that sort would be acceptable. Chief Bak indicated that he thinks Fairview Park got into something like this a few years ago and the NAACP got involved and the City had to give one test a year for like three years straight. Mr. Farrell indicated that they could inquire to the Law Department as to what they think about giving residents an extra credit point or two. Mr. Thomay asked the clerk to check into that. He then indicated that Rule V is finished and they should go onto the next agenda item. B) Commissioners need to review the changes requested at the March 19, 2001 meeting. Mr. Thomay indicated that the board made changes to the Civil Service Rules and Regulations Handbook during their last few meetings and reviewed the changes. There is a change on page 5 of this re -draft of the book. Section 7 part B, should eliminate the "no older than 35 years of age at the time of appointment". Mr. Farrell questioned if they should hold off on eliminating the 35 age limit until they get an opinion from the Law Department, but he is pretty sure it will come out of there. Mr. Thomay agreed. In Section 7 part D, after the first sentence add "Any candidate in a paramedic course must be state certified within 6 months of the test date". Mr. Thomay questioned the changes on page 8. Mr. Farrell indicated that is what the Chief wanted to put in as opposed to the old system that we had. Chief Bak commented that he wanted part C to possibly include three years of evaluations. The Chief indicated that he is not satisfied with the ranking system of zeros and ones. Mr. Farrell suggested that section E's third paragraph should also be inserted under the last paragraph in section F. Chief Bak agreed. In section F. on page 10 we would also have to strike the last sentence "will be determined by adding the (3) three-year totals", and replace it with "will be determined by the one year total". Mr. Thomay indicated that he would like the Clerk to make the changes as discussed and the board can review it again next month. C) Commissioners need to make a motion to remove the following Fire candidates names from the entry level list; Richard Lennox, Andrew Clark, Christopher Keener, David Murphy, Robert Senczylo, and Marc Lindsay. Chief Bak indicated that he has two more names to go with the above listed candidates. Richard Lennox is the one with the eyes, he took a job in Parma Hts.. Andrew Clark works for the City of Cleveland, he decided that he doesn't want to leave Cleveland so he asked them to ,remove his name from the list. Christopher Keener is a lieutenant for the City of Cleveland, last time they talked to him he wanted to be passed over and not considered. The department told him that they were making four appointments and that he would have been passed over five times and he said that he would send a letter requesting his name be taken off the list, but they never heard from him again. Adam Hudak just got hired, and will be sworn in on May 29, 2001 at 1:00 in the afternoon. David Murphy received a certified letter in the mail indicating he was up for interview, but he never answered it so he is removed. Robert Senczylo was sent a letter in the mail, he is the one that moved and never let us know, then he received the certified letter and never returned word to them. Mark Lindsay received the Chief s letter in the mail and he called and said he has a job in another city and will send a letter requesting his name be removed. Sean Cottrell called on Sunday and said he has been hired by the City of Cleveland Hts., and he 2