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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION NORTH OLMSTED, OHIO NORTH OLYSTED CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION - MARCH 23, 1989 - 4:30 P.H Present: Thomas Stroh, Chairman, Robert Wendt and Madeline Brookshire, ?Members, Peg Hill, Secretary Guests: Police Chief ?Marsh, Sergeants: Mason, O'Toole, Ruple. Minutes of the last meeting approved as distributed. The regular business portion of this meeting was set aside to accommodate the questions raised by the Police Sergeants, Mason and Ruple in a letter forwarded to the commission dated March 10, 1989. M.r. Stroh viewed the correspondence received from the above Sergeants and he felt there were three areas of concern, first one being should there be a tie score—Mr. Stroh felt this was the same as covered on page 7 of the Rules and Regulations. However, upon investigation he found that promotional tests differed from initial employment exams in respect to seniority being the determining factor in promotional exams.. Should the seniority be identical the order of priority shall be determined by a toss of a coin. (refer to Promotional examinations in Rules & Regulations). Second question raised - a candidate was permitted to leave the room for several minutes unaccompanied and un- supervised. Mr. Stroh stated that when nature calls you answer. There is no way in the world that the commission can escort anyone to the rest room. By example Mr. Stroh stated that approximately 150 candidates took the Firefighter exam and the commission presumed that the candidate would be honest enough to visit the restroom without having a Crib Sheet with them, just leave and return, then continue on with the test. The commission does not make it a policy to monitor what goes on in the rest rooms, or wherever the person wanders to, as this letter does not state where the candidate went. Mrs. Brookshire stated that usually they are gone for just a few minutes; however, if they were absent from the test area for fifteen minutes we would go after them. Third question was - acandidate recognized twenty-five questions previously asked on the 1.987 Sergeant examination. We contract with McCann Associates, a private testing services, but the commission has no input in the make-up of any of the various tests. We may change testing services, that would be our prerogative to do so, but in the draft of the exam we have no juris- diction. Sgt. Ruple inquired if anyone checked with McCann to see if there were repeat questions, and if so, how many. Commissioner Wendt responded that he had checked with McCann and found out there were twelve questions on the exam that were shown on the Sergeants test. Sgt. Mason mentioned that was an excessive amount. However, Hr. Wendt related the testing company representative would send the commission a letter stating how this test would be scored, the scaring was on the goad side with two of the candidates getting all.twelve of these questions correct and the other candidates getting nine of the twelve correct. -continued on page 2 -