10-15-81 Civil Service Commisson Meeting minutes

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• MINUTES OF • CITY OF LA PORTE CIVIL SERVICE HEARING OCTOBER 15, 1981 THE MEETING WAS CALLED TO ORDER BY CIVIL SERVICE CHAIRMAN, KEITH TRAINER. MR. TRAINER STATED THAT THIS HEARING IS BEING HELD BY FORMAL, WRITTEN REQUEST OF OFFICERS' T.J. NEELY, E.D. BUTCHEE, AND S.M. PARKER. Trainer: Are these Officers present? Would you Officers please have a seat at this table here? Let the record show that all three known as Commission are present; Mr. Dexter Joyner on my right, Mr. Wildon Randall on my left, Vice Chair- man, and myself, Keith Trainer as Chairman of the Commission. Ms. Mary Davis, Personnel Coordinator for the City of La Porte, will receive any documents presented and will assist the Commission as directed. Let the record reflect that the City Attorney, Knox Askins, is present, and alsa Chief Herb Freeman. In all Hearings, Appeals and Reviews of every kind and character wherein the Commis- sion is performing an adjudicative function, the employees shall have the right to have attorneys present. Officers, do you all have an attorney present with you? (Officers indicate they do not - inaudible) Trainer: That's fine. Do you, any and all of you, intend to call any witnesses to testify before this Commission - - other than yourselves, as interested parties? • (Officers indicate thay do not - inaudible) Trainer: I've asked that Ms. Davis, ah, would please swear in the witnesses and int ested parties? As your name is called would you please rise? Davis: (to Chairman Trainer) May they repeat this in unison? Trainer: Yes, please, as a group. Davis: (Speaking to Officers' Neely, Butchee, Parker, Knox Askins, and Chief Freeman) Ge- n Temen, would you please rise? Raise you right hand. Do .you solemnly swear, or affirm, that the testimony you are about to give this Commission is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? (Group replies: "I do." Trainer: Thank you. For the record, I'd like to read the statement; the inter-office memo that, ah, the Commission has received. Ah, it was addressed to Asst. Chief R. Hall, to be forwarded to Chief Freeman and the Civil Service Commission. It's from the three Officers concerned and the subject is 'Current Status'. This memo is an official request b.y the undersigned Officers that they be promoted to the permanent rank of Sergeant assigned to the Criminal Investi- gation Division of the La Porte Police Department. •