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Nicklas Gorbulja and Jeffrey Richards, do not qualify, due to time in rank. Pursuant to Rule III, Promotions, Section 3b, Police Promotions, "... no person in a police department shall be promoted to a position in a higher rank who has not served at least twelve months in the next lower rank." The Secretary prepared a calendar for the Police Lieutenant Promotional Test: on March 4" letters of intent along with the application and posting will be distributed to the qualified candidates: the deadline to submit the letter of intent and application is March 11th; the written examination, which will be held at the police department, will be on April 20'h; the protest period will be on April 22°d in the Caucus room; the online assessment from Pradco will be from May I" through May 7th; interviews with Pradco will be May 81' through May 14th and will be at Pradco with the same assessor for all candidates; the week of May 20th the Commission should receive the results. A suggestion was made to the Commission to hold a special meeting on June 3`d to certify the Police Lieutenant Promotional Ranking List and if there is no other business for the Commission, the June 17th meeting can be canceled. Police Lieutenant Huspaska will be retiring in April so there will be no otherpromotions foreseen before the Lieutenant Police Promotional Ranking List expires on February 271h, 2023. General discussion commenced regarding the passing score for the written test, the weights for the written and oral assessment as well as the number of passing candidates to move on to the oral assessment. Motion by Commissioner Flannery, seconded by Commissioner Fratini to set the passing score for the written component of the Promotional Police Lieutenant examination at 70%. Motion passed unanimously. Motion by Commissioner Flannery, seconded by Commissioner Fratini to set the weight for the written examination at 40% and the weight for the oral assessment at 60% and all passing candidates shall move on to the oral assessment. Motion passed unanimously. The testing company will be in touch with the Police Chief regarding the reference list for the posting. Promotional Testing Process General discussion followed regarding a request from the Public Safety Director to add another step in the promotional process. The Commission has the authority to do that pursuant to Rule I11, Section 4. An independent testing agency has been used in the past and is objective and bias. In the past, the Administration and Commission had built a process for Police Chief that involved a two (2) juried system, two (2) groups of stakeholders and members of the administration; and both groups were led by a professional in terms of how to go about the interview process. Historically there is a weighting component between the written and oral assessment. If some portion of the oral assessment is carved off of Pradco and done through a committee you can do that but it would be when, how, whose running it, how it is going to be judged, what percentage will it be. Director Scofield indicated that this is not urgent at this time and is for the Commission's decision to try and add another step for the promotional process to find the candidate that has the most leadership skills that are needed. In the past, the Commission went out for bids for testing companies and they would come in and describe their services to the Commission. Also, the Commission found that there are not a lot of companies interested in doing testing at Iocal levels. Historically, the testing companies take their cues from the administration. The panel could be an ex -law enforcement executive, someone internally, probably just a three (3) -person panel. The panel concept has been