09-14-81 Civil Service Commission Meeting minutes

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• • Civil Service Meeting September 14, 1981 Page 5 .~ Randall: Uh-huh. Herbie, do you know if--uh--uh--this is injected into their regulations with Civil Service about staying in physical fitness shape? Freeman: No sir, I don't know. Randall: You don't know? Freeman: They did require each member of their department between the ages of 21 to 35 to take the test. Randall: Uh-huh. Hudgens: For the entrance exam. Freeman: That's correct. ---and the ones that were already there. Hudgens: Even the ones---they make them take it once a year? Freeman: No sir. They made them take it when this was instituted. Hud ens: Oh, just the one time and they haven't had to take it since then? ~:. Freeman: No sir. Trainer: I wonder what they would have done, Herb, if somebody would've flunked it. Freeman: They'd--basically--they used it that one time to establish times on each problem. Randall: I know this is not any relation, Herbie, to the entrance, but just out of curiousity, does the department now require physicals? Freeman: No. Hudgens: We require physicals but no agility. Randall: How about in operations---as in progress no---in the force now--at any particular time; does the department require physicals every so often? Freeman: No. Hudgens_: There is a provision in the existing personnel policy that if a director or department head thinks that a person is a--physically unfit for duty--they can require him to have a physical, but there is no agility or endurance involved. That is primarily related to areas with a great deal of absenteesm involved." But what we wanted to do here is was provide you with the information and let you look at it to think about it to see if you think it would be appropriate to add some type of agility program for endurance for new hires coming into the department and/or in addition require some type of physical fitness testing annually by all members of the department thereafter.