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. Council Minutes of 10/4/83 -7- that there is no basis for aecusations that Officer Flynn lied or was discourteous to anyone. Mayor Swietyniowski, Chief Taylor and Safety,. Director met, as per the formal request to investigate. City does not have a point system; a department traffic index is maintained which has nothing to do with quotas or points. No promotions, no demotions, no special considerations are extended based on writing a ticket. Any suspensions may be appealed to the Civi1 Service Commission. No person in the North Olmsted Police nepartment has been suspended for not writing a quota of tickets. Each officer writes tickets based on what he sees, based on his training and the use of speed measuring devices. The facts are: One, all officers interested in promotion must take a civil service examination and score Number One if he expects to be promoted. Number Two, there is no quota system. Number Three, there is no point system. Number Four, there is an evaluation of overall performance of officers. Number Five, no one has been suspended or lost his job for not writing enough tickets. Number Si.x, no one gets overtime for writing tickets. Number Seven, police nerformance rating5 are required by the Civil Service Commission. Number Eight, officers will write a citation for a traffic violation for anyone - no one should be exempt from the law. Mr. Wilamosky commented that in his opinion the traffic index system used by the North Olms.ted Police Department mandates that a quota system be a part of it. In his opinion, the old quota system is still functioning, under a different name. The Mayor indicated he took action and eliminated the point system; he has not taken a position on the index system, which issues a quota to officers. What is the Ma,yor's position? Is he continuing to support the quota system or is he going to put a stop to it? Mr. Petre asked, "what quota system do we have?" Mr. Wilamosky replied that the index system provides for a quota as per Chief Taylor; each officer is assigned a certain quota which must be filled. Mr. Petre stated that this was not true. Mr. Wilamosky answered that he was quoting Chief Taylor, who described the index system at a Safety Committee Meeting; Chief Taylor advised that each individual officer was assigned a quota, based on the duties being perforzned. An officer assigned to Crime Prevention, for example, who is not out on the road and therefore is not accessible to violators, would have a lower quota than the officer who is on the road every day. Mr. Wilamosky again stated that he would like to hear the position of the Mayor with respect to the portion of the index system that sets a quota for police officers. Mayor Swietyniawski replied that he is satis€ied that there is no point system - there is no quota system. There is an indexing - there is an evaluation. Mayor also stated there is absolutely no semblance of any point system or any quota that is set for an officer to go out and write a certain number of tickets. Mr. Wilamosky asked Mr. McKay, who chaired the Safety Committee Meeting, to briefly summarize Chief Taylor's description of the traffic index svstem and whether or not the Chief had advised that a quota is assigned to his men depending on the duties they were assigned. Mr. McKay replied he would have to look over his notes from the meeting; could not honestly say that the Chief stated a quota was assigned to an officer. Mr. McKay feels that there must be an evaluation system on any employee. President Boehmer suggested that the discussion had continued long enough; asked the Safety Committee Chairma.n to take the matter back into committee. Under New Business: Mr. McKay scheduled a combined Enviranmental Control and Finance Comnittee Meeting for Monday, October 17th, at 7:00 P.M. and requested the Mayor and Service Director to be in attendance. Also, scheduled a Safety Committee Meeting for Monday, October 17th, at 8:00 P.M. and requested the Safety Director, Police Chief Taylor and any patrolman who has been assigned a quota to issue traffic tickets to be in attendance.