09-14-81 Civil Service Commission Meeting minutes

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• • Civil Service Meeting September 14, 1981 (. Page 8 Hudgens: I don't see how they get away with that, nor do I see the need for it. Trainer: -----provides that you have a good physical fitness test, which is the better way to do it than just use age, just like you say, there's some 36 year olds that--or 40 year olds who are in super shape. Hud ens: l~Je wanted to give you the first-round copy of this thing, first draft, and it's double-spaced so you can make notes, or marks, or whatever and then sometime between now and the first, Commission needs to formally adopt the Civil Service Rules and Regulations. ---and these things in the first year, you know,. they're not to be considered cast in concrete because I feel confi-dent that during the first year of operation there will be times that there's something that's not covered adquately; that things will need to be amended. It's kind of like anew pair of shoes, you're going to have to wear them a while and break them in. We're all going to be new at this. Mary's done a lot of research in putting this together. Herb's spent a lot of time with her and they've done a little traveling to some of the area communities that have Civil Service and visited with their Chiefs and their Personnel people. , Trainer: I think we're all going to want to have a little time to sit down and read this without going into it here. Would you or Mary like to just like to talk to us about anything in general in here; general comments; some of your research, and C how you researched it? • Davis: Well, briefly, how I researched it is getting different cities' own local rules and regulations which have to follow 1269m. Trainer: 6Jhich ones did you get? Davis: I have got Pasadena, Galveston, League City, Kileen, Baytown, Port Arthur, and what this is - is basically a composite. Trainer: That's plain. Davis: I am not--- Hu_ dgens: She has gone through these things and read theirs, talked to those folks a out those things that they like and things that they don't like, then trying to take the best of all those things and compile them into one document. One of the things I might mention here that might need to be done within 90 days following October 1st is - we need to put on a promotional examination for Sergeants. We will have three vacancies. Trainer: Why will we have the vacancies? Are there people leaving? . Hud ens: No, in the current organizational structure of the department we have the c assifications of Detective which is salary-wise between Patrolman and Sergeant, and in looking at the classification system for the department, one of the things ~•