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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION NORTH OLMSTED, OHIO NORTH OLMSTED CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING - AUGUST 20, 1987 ROLL CALL: Commissioners: Pat Bahas, Tom Stroh, Bob Wendt, Secretary, Peg Hill Attending: Police Chief Marsh, Officer Barry O'Toole, City Safety Director, Bud Becker. Members of the press representing WEST LIFE AND SUN NEWSPAPERS. Meeting called to order by secretary at the new time of 4:00 P.M. The meetings originally scheduled for 7:30 P.M. on the fourth Thursday of the month have been changed to the new time of'4:00 P.M. Old and new business, as well as agenda items were moved to accomodate the opening of the Police Sergeant's test envelopes by the commissioners. Mr. Wendt preceded the opening of the envelopes with the.reading of the Report.from the testing company: generally those taking the examination did outstandingly well - way above the national norms - and it is a credit to the Police Department of North Olmsted. Basically, most of the officers were 7% points above the national norm. The testing company, working only with I.D. numbers and not names, related that one officer ranked in the 1% range in the country by answering 94 questions correctly. McCann recommended that the passing raw score be set at 77. Although we can go below that score to 74 enabling the commission to pick up a couple more people. By using the score of 77 raw, which -is 7.7. above the national norm we would actually pass ten (10) people. If we set the score at 74 we would pass thirteen (13). Mrs. Bahas questioned how many people took the test - and Mr. Wendt responded nineteen .(19). Mr. Wendt recommended to the commission we. use the score of 74, because even at that score it is 5 points above the national norm. All commissioners in agreement to set the score at 74, passing thirteen (13) of the nineteen (19) people taking the test. Mr. Wendt in answering a question regarding the rationale of the passing score presented by Mrs. Bahas explained: the testing company felt that because these candidates scored so high, above national norms, that we would not be compromising anything to pick up more people. Cutting the score to 77 would pass ten (10) people, but the other three (3) people did above national average and we are looking at a high caliber of people taking the test, based on the overall scores. Therefore a passing score of 74 was suggested as the passing grade. The testing company congratulated the Borth Olmsted Police Department in - achieving high scores in the Police Sergeant test. Extra point credit was given for seniority and evaluations. and added to the candidate test scares. A summary of the police.:sergeant test scores may be attached to the. minutes of.the August 20th meeting., if approved.