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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED "TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!" CIVIL, SERVICE COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES MARCH 15, 2004 I. ROLL CALL: Chairwoman Giesser called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. PRESENT: Chairwoman R. Giesser and board members; M. Ubaldi and W. Hohmann. ALSO PRESENT: Mayor Musial, Assistant Law Director B. O'Malley and Civil Service Secretary D. Rote. Mayor Musial was present to administer the oath of office to newly appointed Civil Service Commissioner William Hohmann. Mr. Hohmann's term will run from 01/01/04 -12/31/09. H. DISPOSITION OF MINUTES: The Civil Service minutes of March 1, 2004 were submitted for approval. Mr. Ubaldi indicated that on page two the word research should be past tense not present. 'e t4 R. Giesser motion to approve the minutes as corrected. M. Ubaldi seconded the motion, which was unanimously approved. M. CORRESPONDENCE: There were 3 items of correspondence received and 3 piece of correspondence sent out. Ms. Giesser reviewed that Mr. Ubaldi cannot attend the Northeast Ohio Civil Service meeting and Mr. Hohmann will try to attend for the commission. The secretary was asked to make sure Mr. Hohmann would be allowed to attend. IV. OLD BUSINESS: Civil Service Handbook Ms. Giesser voiced the first thing should be addressed is the fire and police agility requirements. The commission would like to address the wording for agility test at their next meeting. They would like to have both police and fire chief's present as well as the Safety Director to have their input as to how they would like the sections pertaining to their departments addressed. The commission would also like to know if either chief has a preference as to when the agility requirements are addressed i.e. before written or after written. The secretary was asked.to obtain something in writing indicating North Olmsted is grandfathered into the Tri -C Fire Agility program. The Law Department was asked to research state law to make sure there would be no conflicts with the Civil Service Handbook. Civil Service Commissioners discussed the task of updating or rewriting the Civil Service handbook before the end of the year. The secretary was asked to e-mail Mr. Ubaldi the version of the Civil Service handbook she has on the computer so that he can make sure that it is current with the commissioner's handbooks. Once the commission knows for sure that the computer version of the handbook is accurate, they will start updates and corrections for the book with a working issue. 1