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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION NORTH OLMSTED, OHIO MINUTES OF CIVIL SERVICE MEETING JUNE 30, 1988 Present: Commissioners: Robert Wendt, Tom Stroh, Madeline Brookshire. City Service Director., Richard Noble. NOMBL General. Manager, Ken Mues along with Tom Terbracht. NOMBL• Employees Committee members, Donald Livingston, Tod Dagy and Jim Bierman. Fire Chief Van Buren was also in attendance. Minutes of the May meeting approved as submitted. The business portion of this meeting was set aside to hear the question of the NOMBL. Mr. Wendt stated the commission reviewed and documented the re- classification within the bus department i.e. those persons within the bus department covered by.civil service. Mr. Wendt stated that, after much cnsideration and investigation-, was satisified with this list. This list was distributed to bus personnel and did show that certain classifications were not covered under civil service established guidelines. The commission has again been visited by a group of employees, laborers a/k/a hostlers or servicemen, claiming they do more than the commission feels they do. Mr. Wendt related that the commission was working from a job description that seemed satisfactory; however the bus committee personnel brought with them another job description which they distributed to the commissioners. According to the original job description given the commission it was their feeling this group of employees were not covered by civil service. The reason for the.employee group to appear before the commission was to petition for civil service protection. Thea -employee group -declared that because of the various jobs they are assigned and some of the duties they perform they assume more responsibility than shown on the original job description. The commissioners agreed, after reviewing the job description the employees group presented, that some of the duties performed were above and beyond those of a laborer or serviceman. Service Director, Noble, felt this confrontation was all predicated by a letter circulated some months back erroneously that laborers be covered by civil service. Messrs. Wendt and Stroh declared they were unaware of the contents of this letter at the time. This letter was officially retracted. Mr. Noble further stated .that he had people in the Service Department doing various duties over and above their job description as laborers, particulary, operating backhoes and bulldozers. Mr. Noble stated he did not feel the serviceman classification falls within the seven categories as set forth in the civil service manual. If the job required some degree of certification or training he would see some justification for this request. Mr. Noble related that, as far as he is concerned, it was basically an entrance labor field position and should be considered in the labor area. Mr. Livingston injected that by the original job description vs. the one sumbitted by the employee group