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is now getting away from that approach. The Commission has had no problems with litigation; the procedure is fairly well stated in the Civil Service Rules. Barrett & Associates approach to an oral assessment is that they often do very large scale testing and their typical oral exercise includes computers, records the presentation and has a server plus a digital recorder in the room. They also have a standardized scoring procedure by their assessors. The accuracy is extremely high due to the three (3) way back up system. The turn around time for scoring the written examination would be one (1) day if the Commission so requests. If there were a large amount of candidates they use two (2) scan tron machines with a matched program for complete accuracy. Scoring the oral assessment takes a little more time and uses their raters to go through and score which would take about two (2) weeks. The Civil Service Commission for the City of North Olmsted does not have any accommodations of challenges; State Law only recognizes challenges for fire departments and our legal department determined that home rule authority allows the Commission to decline a protest period. The cost would be around $15,000 to $20,000; if the oral assessments are for six (6) or less candidates it would be less than $15,000. Barrett & Associates usually uses numerical and quantitative score. Really no one uses qualitative because you cannot rank order. The only time they use qualitative is feedback to the candidates. The feedback is used infrequently and all depends upon the jurisdiction. The cost is more if this process is used. The typical model is not to give feedback on the oral for most jurisdictions. A general discussion commenced regarding Barrett & Associates' rates. This might be a good firm to reserve for the Promotional Police Chief examination with the number of candidates being so few. With the smaller firms you would have the smaller costs. In the past, Ramsey & Associates has provided the Commission with feedback for the oral assessment. The oral assessments that Ramsey & Associates has had in the past has included evaluations and observations of the candidate. A general discussion commenced concerning scan tron, number of questions, and time limits for a written examination. Pat Ramsey with Ramsey & Associates was introduced and already knows about the vacancy for a Police Lieutenant as corollary in Police Sergeant. Potentially, there will be five (5) candidates for Lieutenant and thirty-six (3 6) candidates for Sergeant. The Commission would need to gain approval by the Board of Control within the next week and then the Commission would have a special meeting to complete the details with the selected testing company. The notification would be distributed at the end of that week which would allow the Commission the 30 days to notify the candidates. The target testing date would be Saturday, May 15"', based on availability and other factors and an oral examination the following week if turn around were feasible. The Police Chief will accommodate the Commission's request for the oral assessments during a weekday. The appeal time has been removed from the rules; State Law, unless it has changed, only accommodates Fire and before the Commission had an equivalent for police and decided it was a little bit complicated and not quite equitable. The Commission would like to have the two (2) tests concurrent. The oral assessments can be on different days. The number of candidates for the Lieutenant's oral assessment would be 4 to 5 candidates, if they pass the written, and six (6) of the top scoring candidates for the Sergeant's oral assessment. A general discussion commenced regarding the pre-test orientation, process of an assessment center, history of assessment centers, typical exercises, arrival times, and candidates identification. For every exercise, the candidates are scored on the dimension such as oral communication, leadership, judgment, command presence, interpersonal skills. At the completion of the assessment,