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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION MEETING �\ CITY COUNCIL CAUCUS ROOM MINUTES - SEPTEMBER 15, 2008 7:00 P.M. I. ROLL CALL: Chairman M. Ubaldi called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. PRESENT: M. Ubaldi and B. Hohmann ALSO PRESENT: Human Resources Director C. Farver, Service Director D. Limpert, Assistant Law Director B. O'Malley, Civil Service Secretary D. Eccleston II. DISPOSITION OF MINUTES: The Civil Service minutes dated August 18, 2008 have been submitted for approval. Mr. Ubaldi made a motion to accept the minutes as submitted. Mr. Hohmann seconded the motion and unanimously approved. III. COMMUNICATIONS: There were 7 items of correspondence received and 4 items of correspondence sent out by the Civil Service Commission. IV. OLD BUSINESS: Review Rule III, Police and Fire Promotions, Section 3, Police Promotions An amended draft of Rule III, Police and Firefighter Promotions, Section 3, Police Promotions was provided to the Commission from the Chairman. Chief Wozniak's concern and desire was Patrolmen be required to serve thirty-six (36) months, including the twelve (12) months probationary period, for a scheduled promotional examination. A general discussion followed. The Chairman provided a draft of Rule IX, Temporary and Exceptional Appointments. Language concerning temporary appointment was something a little more complicated in the handbook prior to the Commission's comprehensive changes. The language was removed entirely and the Chairman wanted to reinsert some language that he had drafted. The draft governs the situation in which a temporary employee would be filling a position for which an eligible list would be filled by a competitive examination. The rule has limited the window of an appointment of one hundred twenty (120) days after which you cannot fill that position through a temporary appointment; a great deal of language was removed, but here it simply requires the employee to compete with all others. The basic concept is that the temporary appointee acquires no standing and does not become a classified civil servant by default. On the front end there is no promise or expectation of continued employment and this rule pertains to the back end which provides termination of a temporary employee that is not qualified through testing and selection by the appointing authority. The process involves the appointing authority notifying the Commission that there is no eligible list and there is an urgent need to fill the position with a temporary appointment triggering a testing process that would include the temporary appointee amongst the others to be tested; if they are one of the