07-18-12 Meet and Confer Committee Meeting

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fiscal year of the contract. He advised the City could not wait three years to begin discussing the need for an Assessment Center again because promoting qualified leaders for the department is just too critical and the department clearly needs something more than a mere textbook test in order to do this. According to Chief Adcox, the ultimate goal would be to use a mutually agreed upon independent outside testing firm and that 50% of the candidate's score would be from the standard written test and 50°% would be from a practical exercise Assessment Center. Candidates would, however, have to pass the written test in order to participate in the Assessment Center and seniority points would be applied once the final test scores were tallied. The Chief advised he would like the Association members to help develop the process, imposing any reasonable requirements they feel are needed to ensure that the Assessment Center and entire promotional process is fair, consistent, honest, transparent, and meaningful. Unless otherwise agreed, promotional testing would continue to be held annually, so that there is always a current promotional list in place. Chief Adcox distributed copies of ideas he is proposing in regard to wages and leave pool that were prepared prior to current meeting based on June 201h meeting. There was general discussion on the leave pool, and Chief advised that it would have to come out of vacation banks. Chief asked Tom Barbee to possibly work on the language. Mr. Barbee advised that most Cities do have an "opt out" form and it is an option to do that each calendar year. However, you have to contribute to the pool to use the time from the pool. 4. SET TIME AND DATE OF NEXT MEETING The next meeting was set for August 1, 2012 at 3:00 pm. S. COMMITTEE COMMENTS None, 6. ADJOURNMENT Meeting was adjourned at 4:47 p.m. APPROVED ON THIS THE \ DAY OF 9 - 2012. Ken Adcox, Chief of Police ovosad, LPPO�Prresident�id..t