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[0:01] This is the Civil Service Commission meeting, Wednesday, February 4, 2026, in the mayor's conference room. President Laurie Huffman.
[0:09] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[0:09] My genders, sir.
[0:11] First, Michael.
[0:12] Ms. Aldoel.
[0:13] Jamie Iceman.
[0:15] Vince Marmer.
[0:16] Thank you.
[0:17] We
[0:23] need to look at our January 7th meeting's minutes.
[0:28] Look through those before we have a motion to approve those.
[0:35] Any questions or concerns?
[0:49] If we don't, we can have a motion to approve the January 7th meeting minutes.
[0:56] I'll make a motion to approve January 7th, meeting minutes.
[1:01] Second motion.
[1:03] All in favor?
[1:04] Hi.
[1:04] We also have a budget review from January 1st through January 31st, 2026.
[1:17] You'll notice that I included civil service in HR this month?
[1:22] That's what confused me.
[1:23] Okay.
[1:24] Why we got a lot of papers.
[1:25] there's. So there's two separate.
[1:30] Thank you for bringing that to pass.
[1:47] There's an answer to that.
[1:49] It has to pass by March 31st.
[1:51] There you go.
[2:01] We always get it done in time, but no, we always passed it on time.
[2:08] Yes.
[2:11] So the first motion we need is for the service budget review.
[2:21] I'll motion to approve the civil service budget from January 1 through January 31,
[2:26] 2026.
[2:27] Oh, second.
[2:28] All in favor.
[2:29] Uh-huh.
[2:30] And then our second is the HR budget review.
[2:36] If anybody has any questions or concerns about that, it's pretty good.
[2:43] We
[2:48] should to approve that.
[2:58] Oh, yes.
[2:58] I will.
[2:59] So, a motion to approve VHR budget from January 1st to January 31st, 2026.
[3:05] I'll second.
[3:06] All in favor.
[3:07] I also have a review classified and poi list to work over in the changes or additions,
[3:16] subtractions.
[3:17] We have one here, I see.
[3:19] Oh, we've got a couple on this other page.
[3:22] Is that a promotion?
[3:24] Yes.
[3:47] I'm
[3:50] glad.
[3:50] Okay.
[3:55] All right.
[3:57] We have no old business.
[4:04] Review business.
[4:05] HR director Jamie Iceman has requested a following police officer lab.
[4:11] transfer applicant be added to the certified eligible list, Joshua, Anderson.
[4:22] Do you have any comment on that or?
[4:26] No, he, um,
[4:33] so that's it. Yeah. Start condition at this office. So yeah, fully qualified, means all the qualifications.
[4:40] So, okay, great. Can I have a motion for approval?
[4:46] I make a motion to approve police officer lateral transfer applicant, where's this name?
[4:57] Joshua.
[4:57] Oh, at the end, applicant be added to the certified eligibility, the Josh Anderson.
[5:06] I'll second the motion.
[5:08] All in favor.
[5:09] We also have two police officer applicants request the acceptance of scores due to
[5:16] various reasons. Letters enclosed. Okay. I see Connor Dawson's here.
[5:42] Okay, so did
[5:46] he
[5:47] reschedule for January 20th? Yes. Okay.
[5:52] He resettled and took the test on January 20th at 11am.
[5:57] Okay. Alright, so that was the next available. Okay. So his seems reasonable. Any
[6:07] any comments on that? I would just think I would ask the commission to consider maybe
[6:15] what these votes just make a non-personnel so meaning you're not always it's it if the
[6:22] computer doesn't work it's not you're not always going to get to be able to write extended
[6:27] okay you know to see what you're saying. Was there any issue with that being the holiday of the
[6:32] crazy complications. On Conner's it wasn't. I mean he's a jailer with us now. He's
[6:41] trying to take it and shut him out because of some, you know, he had taken that
[6:48] online class and one was online class where he had to be present so it put
[6:53] something on the computer so if he didn't bring in a file you know like to make
[6:58] you're really there type of thing. Well, Ranna followed the same thing that NTN was trying to do on the computer.
[7:05] You know, it's like, oh, you got to, you know, like the two are running into each other. So it can't get them off.
[7:11] So pretty legit. Yeah, yeah. It's, yeah, I got to keep in college yet the same thing.
[7:17] Okay. From, you know, so the same type of thing.
[7:21] Okay, all right, has there been a, it's been a prior practice?
[7:29] This has not happened before. I mean, I'm surprised it hasn't happened before we had.
[7:35] I mean, unfortunately, did you take it the last day? Yes, but you anticipate that it's going to work.
[7:42] Right.
[7:45] So yeah.
[7:46] It
[7:52] was scheduled on that time he had to pre-schedule that, right?
[7:56] Correct.
[7:56] He did.
[7:57] Yes, correct.
[7:58] It was like he waited till the last day that it was scheduled.
[8:00] No, right.
[8:01] It was already scheduled.
[8:03] Yeah.
[8:03] Yeah.
[8:04] I mean, could I see this happening again?
[8:06] Sure.
[8:06] The more we use it, the more we use it, the more we use it.
[8:09] Yes.
[8:09] Okay.
[8:11] He was scheduled out quite a bit in advance.
[8:15] Because I can see if they've scheduled their exam, I can see what it's scheduled for.
[8:21] And I know his was settled out at least a week in advance, okay, if not more
[8:28] And I'm surprised at scheduling. There's a deadline in there. Let's them take it the day after
[8:33] Well, Michelle and I spoke about that the reason is with NTN
[8:37] You can submit those scores to multiple agencies. So of course they're gonna let you take the test
[8:44] I can't speak on the fact of how he's a we're still able to get the scores because what we did when we got this
[8:50] Michelle had to, even though you had not voted, we had to still open it, extended to allow
[8:58] the score to come in in case you did.
[9:01] So that's how we were able to retrieve the score.
[9:04] Okay.
[9:05] Okay.
[9:11] Can we have a motion to, for the acceptance of these scores of his score for Conor Dawson?
[9:19] I'll make a motion for the acceptance of the score due to IT reasons for Hatter Dawson.
[9:26] Oh, second.
[9:27] All in favor.
[9:29] And then we also have to look at Joshua's.
[9:36] And there are
[10:05] thoughts on this one.
[10:10] So Joshua is a current employee of the city as well.
[10:13] he works as an equipment operator down at distribution and collection.
[10:19] He states
[10:20] that he did buy the materials to practice and you know do those things ahead
[10:24] of time. Unfortunately in distribution and collection this time of year that's
[10:29] when they have many water be breaks. I'm not sure how many of those he goes in on but
[10:35] that being said they have a lot of overtime down there and yes to know that you
[10:41] day off on the 19th you got a schedule for the 19th and then there's nothing available
[10:48] right you get to that point so yeah hence the busy and unpredictable work schedule correct yeah
[10:57] and a good employee and employee and good standing yeah yes okay okay I
[11:23] think this one
[11:24] And then I do have to say that we know that because we know him, if this was someone else,
[11:32] would we offer the same opportunity?
[11:35] I mean, I couldn't recommend it because I don't know.
[11:38] I can say that the Friday before the test closed.
[11:43] He was trying to work with Michelle and I and we got in the documents that day.
[11:48] He submitted everything that day.
[11:52] His printer wouldn't work, so we printed stuff for him, and he came and picked it up on
[11:57] a break at work.
[11:58] I think we're in a situation and Chief Moore will agree, I'm sure, that we don't have
[12:03] that many candidates applying to be a come-up police officer, so he did try.
[12:09] Yeah, so since this came after Conner's, you're like, well, we should give him the same opportunity.
[12:19] Yes, you need to let the commission decide and we'll let him show that yeah, okay
[12:25] I'm good with it. I have a motion to approve this or
[12:30] Joshua
[12:34] I'll make a motion to approve the request from
[12:38] Joshua
[12:40] Cruewell to accept the score due to
[12:46] various reasons
[12:48] That's like a military.
[12:49] All in favor?
[12:50] All right.
[12:53] We have our eligible list for police officer.
[12:58] Wow.
[12:59] Okay.
[13:00] It
[13:09] looks pretty good.
[13:10] Nice list, isn't it?
[13:11] Yeah.
[13:12] Very much good.
[13:13] 19.
[13:14] Oh, that's awesome.
[13:15] That's awesome.
[13:16] It's awesome.
[13:24] More token.
[13:25] That's good.
[13:26] Yeah.
[13:27] Yes.
[13:29] It's one of the better lists we've had quite a while.
[13:33] I think so.
[13:34] Yes.
[13:34] Yes.
[13:35] Do you mind to see you anticipate the higher, how many?
[13:38] Please, officer.
[13:38] Let's hear it.
[13:39] This year?
[13:41] Well, let me give her a bigger view.
[13:44] Next year, we'll probably have five retired.
[13:48] Wow.
[13:49] Okay.
[13:49] So, knowing that, we'd like to hire.
[13:52] Now, we have grants available for two.
[13:55] And we also have a replacement.
[14:00] So, three, you know, maybe kind of.
[14:04] It's all budget, and you know, e-pub will try to get people on the pipeline rolling, great to get it into it.
[14:13] Even if it means pre-hyper something that you can, like we've done.
[14:17] So, you know, we're on the list.
[14:21] Okay.
[14:22] Very great.
[14:24] Well, we could have a motion to approve the eligible list.
[14:27] I'll make a motion to approve the eligible list for the police officer.
[14:31] Also good to look all in favor and Chief Paula check has requested the
[14:41] removal of the following candidate from the firefighter paramedic certified
[14:45] eligible list Noah Robinson for failing to meet candidate standards Kevin
[14:52] and collar for unresponsiveness, okay, so two candidates there to be removed.
[15:00] Those were the last two on that list. Okay. Okay.
[15:07] We can have a motion to approve this. We'll make a motion to approve the request from Chief Polichick to remove the following candidates from the Fire, Fire, Paramedic Certified Eligible list, Nora Robinson and Kevin Colum. Second, a motion. All in favor? Aye. And Chief Polichick has also requested to close.
[15:32] the firefighter paramedics certified eligible list.
[15:37] Should
[15:43] you approve that?
[15:45] I'll make a motion to approve.
[15:46] To close the firefighter paramedic,
[15:48] has certified eligible list.
[15:50] Oh, second.
[15:51] All in favor?
[15:53] Aye.
[15:54] And Chief Polichek requests a firefighter paramedic
[15:57] sympathy service exam through National Testing Network.
[16:02] Public notice included for...
[16:05] That makes sense.
[16:07] close the list.
[16:11] Okay. Nothing, no changes on this. The standard, I should say there's
[16:17] only one change. I'm sorry, two changes. Okay. So, with the ladder climb, we're going
[16:26] to do two options because the last test, what causes you to lose quite a few was candidates
[16:32] not showing up for the ladder climb. So, chief and I spoke about it and decided to do a Friday
[16:37] Saturday because most candidates will least be off one of those days, so they'll have an option, so we're gonna have two days
[16:44] for two hours on Friday and Saturday to do the test. I'm glad you explained it, because I thought it wasn't aspirant. Okay, no, we're not twice.
[16:53] We're trying, but ever we can't even get a can of the weather for the night out.
[16:57] So on the waiver, they get the state's, they do have to fill out a waiver to do the ladder climb and on it
[17:04] I did put that it will be rescheduled within two weeks.
[17:08] So we do have rain day, possibility.
[17:11] And then lastly, the last change is the physical agility.
[17:18] We are going to certify the list prior to it,
[17:22] the agility being turned in because one of the dates
[17:26] is after just the timing of the testing of the agility.
[17:30] It's typically not an issue, but we
[17:32] We did put that they had to have it turn in by time of higher.
[17:36] So again, adds another component of giving them some more flexibility to meet that time
[17:43] length.
[17:44] Okay.
[17:45] Yeah.
[17:47] Oh, I see.
[17:48] So you have one cell that's on the other part, please.
[17:51] That's right.
[17:52] The sixth and the seventh.
[17:53] It goes through.
[17:54] Yeah, you know that.
[17:55] Yeah, I'll be trying.
[17:58] We do have one vacancy still that they're trying to fill.
[18:01] and we have to not official, but unofficial retirements.
[18:09] Coming up.
[18:11] And this is the first time.
[18:14] Maybe the second time we've done this.
[18:17] Third.
[18:18] Should be the third time, the third time, NTN.
[18:21] We did it last year in 2025.
[18:23] Okay.
[18:23] The NTN.
[18:24] Okay.
[18:25] And then previously it was done.
[18:26] I believe it was 21.
[18:28] I did that.
[18:29] with, um, uh, personally, yeah. Okay. I remember that. I think he was the first to do
[18:35] try hers. Yes. Okay. Okay. The department shows I gave head chief figure out if he
[18:42] wanted to do in person or N T N. We're going to try N T N one more time with this, um, different
[18:47] model with the ladder climb trying different options and see which we get the best results.
[18:52] Okay.
[18:55] That's good. We have a motion to approve this public notice.
[19:02] I'll make a motion to approve the public notice for fire, fire, paramedic.
[19:08] I'll second a motion.
[19:10] All in favor.
[19:11] Aye.
[19:17] Public service director Todd Shrieve, request to close the account clerk certified eligible
[19:22] list stating the remaining candidates have been passed over and are no longer able to
[19:29] be considered.
[19:33] Good?
[19:34] Okay.
[19:34] All right.
[19:35] I make a motion to close the account or certify an eligible list through the candidates
[19:40] remaining in the impasse vote over no one considered.
[19:44] I'll second.
[19:45] All in favor.
[19:46] Aye.
[19:48] And public service director Todd Schrieve request a six-month extension to the Equipment
[19:54] Operator 1 Certified Eligible List for a renewed expiration of August 5th, 2026.
[20:01] We
[20:05] still have a fair amount of candidates on there.
[20:09] Do we know there are, there's, I believe there's between six and eight.
[20:14] Okay, and I checked with them all right before the end of the year.
[20:18] And all of them are still interested.
[20:20] Okay, so I'm warning you to move forward.
[20:24] Okay.
[20:25] Sounds good.
[20:26] You can have a motion to approve that.
[20:28] I'll make a motion to approve the request for a six month extension to the equipment.
[20:34] Operator Certified Eligibility List which will expire August 5th, 2026.
[20:43] I'll second the motion.
[20:44] All in favor.
[20:46] Aye.
[20:48] And Public Service Director Patry request a general form and utilities resume examination.
[20:56] Public notice for general form and included.
[21:00] Okay.
[21:01] Okay, Mike Jackson is set to retire.
[21:05] Oh, okay, so that's why.
[21:16] Yeah, I talked to him.
[21:19] Yeah, where I'm Christmas, you said he was gone.
[21:23] It's fine.
[21:24] Yeah,
[21:31] he's been someone you're...
[21:33] Oh, I see.
[21:34] So, okay.
[21:35] I must see.
[21:36] He's admitted by Friday, February 27.
[21:38] Okay.
[21:41] Okay, very good.
[21:42] We can have a motion to improve.
[21:44] I'll make a motion to general format utilities resume examination and public notice for general format.
[21:54] A second. All in favor?
[21:57] I saw earlier, we had some promotions noted in Caruso, my operator master, Joseph Johns, equipment operator 2,
[22:09] Tyler McLaughlin, Equipment Operator 2.
[22:15] Very nice.
[22:21] Missionary periods, new hires.
[22:24] All right, updates from a charge director, Jamie Iceman.
[22:30] Thank you. So, I had sent the commission an email
[22:35] and just want to, since we had not talked about it prior in order to avoid any open meetings violations,
[22:46] If I send you something as a group as information, you can ask questions, just don't do it with all of us.
[22:52] Okay.
[22:52] Send it to me separately, and that I will respond accordingly if you don't email, call me, whichever you prefer to do.
[23:01] I want you to ask questions, so don't feel like you can't just do it individually, okay.
[23:10] With the disciplines that I did give you information on, we did get a verbal warning.
[23:20] And then no discipline was done on the other discipline for Vanessa Johnson.
[23:25] I have not heard anything and was nothing turned in this last paper because I did check
[23:29] I can find it to see if anything was done, so I have...
[23:35] Oh, it would be the follow-up on that.
[23:36] Yeah, I was just gonna ask.
[23:37] Is there the mayor needs to decide?
[23:42] And if nothing's done, it just ends there.
[23:45] Is there a...
[23:46] No, I will have to follow-up.
[23:48] Yeah.
[23:48] Okay.
[23:49] Is there a time frame for that?
[23:52] Um, officially no.
[23:54] Okay.
[23:57] I do not recall what date it was on that letter.
[24:03] I was checking today was the first day I would have found out for the paper read.
[24:07] So this is the first day I found out.
[24:08] So if I don't hear anything by the end of the week, I will follow up.
[24:18] What I've been working on the most would have to be police getting ready for what chief
[24:24] more we're talked about and you could probably give you a little bit more
[24:27] information but him and I were working on squaring dates which we we have most
[24:33] pretty much done but I have to do some finalizing but we're going to do
[24:37] first hopefully in August I have not been able to get that confirmed yeah but
[24:42] that's the tentative date and then with that we'll move on and we'll do
[24:48] lieutenant sergeant we do have those dates firm to their in December for the
[24:52] written chief did want to be open with the department so when it came time for
[24:58] scheduling he put a very nice email out saying this is what's upcoming for
[25:01] the department this year. Like let's start planning so.
[25:08] Now you know it was going chief first. No it was going to be quarter-four next year.
[25:15] Alright, here we go. Here's a blanket site. Here's the end of the year. Here's assignments for next year.
[25:22] You know, just be able to, you know, give somebody the ability to start seeing and learning,
[25:28] doing operating the safety net for a while before they officially able to take up a cover.
[25:35] Yeah, so for Bolt, that's just my spot, but also that Chris White's lot of control commitment.
[25:45] We've all been in our positions a lot, and we have a lot of institutional knowledge.
[25:49] We just kind of do a lot of things now that we need to be shared with others.
[25:54] Okay.
[25:56] So it'll give a nice amount of time to be able to train together.
[26:00] Yes.
[26:00] Okay.
[26:01] That'll be good.
[26:02] You expect those to be come from one thing in the department?
[26:05] Oh yeah, that's awesome.
[26:06] Yeah, we're not going outside the department.
[26:07] Okay, wait.
[26:09] Woo!
[26:10] Oh, man.
[26:12] Oh, you want to shake stuff up?
[26:14] Oh no, we can't.
[26:15] We are a civil service city agency, and we should.
[26:20] That's a good one.
[26:20] Yeah, that's a good one.
[26:22] We have smart people, people ready to take over, so it'll be good.
[26:29] Okay, we'll be here.
[26:36] And then, with police, we do have a lateral that we've given the job offer to, Ryan and
[26:43] Marin check from Union time, we'll be sworn in on February 23rd.
[26:47] Yeah, great.
[26:48] So I'll come into it.
[26:49] Great.
[26:50] Five years out there, mostly full time, some part time, went to college and then went into
[26:58] the military after that.
[27:01] Okay.
[27:01] You want to do the Army?
[27:04] So they said, you know, if you want to do a two-hack, you know, so you said, okay, so you have the bachelor's and history, bachelor's and history.
[27:14] And then, once in the army, so.
[27:16] And most people do it the other way to get the right idea.
[27:18] And you have a presidential idea.
[27:20] You know, like executive.
[27:22] You do, so you got to fist pop with the bomb and Trump will win the first door out.
[27:26] Oh, that's one.
[27:29] I was the guy that, you know, when the Chinese came off the plane, you know, that they had
[27:36] a tall sailor there, you know, a tall Murray, and I was a tall army guy, you know.
[27:42] You know, he's bigger, so.
[27:45] What's 867?
[27:47] Sorry, I didn't talk to him.
[27:50] He's probably got a 6164.
[27:52] Okay.
[27:53] We were 100 bucks.
[27:55] It's a good one.
[27:56] That's a good present.
[27:57] you know it's just good.
[28:02] I know that's all the records.
[28:05] Okay.
[28:08] And then I'm still filling in for the role of safety director.
[28:14] The legislation, I will be putting in a legislation request for the pay rate.
[28:19] We just got that, I just got that determination back for what the rate will be.
[28:24] will be 35, 65 an hour, so that legislation is to do this Friday. I'll submit that and
[28:30] then the mayor can, he knows what the rate is and then we can make it official.
[28:35] Okay.
[28:37] A big project for Michelle and I is records retention. It's actually every department.
[28:43] We have to clean out the penthouse and start condensing. I have not done a purge of records
[28:49] since right before I took over I did have a seasonal help me. I did just today get a seasonal in
[28:55] the budget to help not just our department but throughout the city building so we could almost
[29:00] have like a floater um because if you know we're all short and if we can just and the person that
[29:07] I'm thinking that has done before so it would be someone that's knowledgeable and can be very helpful
[29:13] so that will be great. With that I discovered safety does not have a records retention schedule
[29:19] So I need to create one.
[29:24] And then, that's done.
[29:27] Account clerk, there is a vacancy.
[29:30] We will be coming to you with a test next month for that.
[29:33] It was just, it's been too much.
[29:35] We could not do a test this month.
[29:37] Right. We need a more month.
[29:39] Yeah. Okay.
[29:41] And no applicants for building commissioner.
[29:45] And we received one applicant for engineer
[29:48] but not qualified. They were mechanical and no pee, no pee, no pee.
[29:56] And then the last update I have is
[30:00] I did speak before about a vacancy and park department for the position from on the carer left. I do, I am in process working with Union, I'm doing an MOU. That job title will be reclassified as recreation services clerk. It fits the job. It helps them get the right candidate. It has the right licensure and certifications, but we have to on the back end have to make sure we're in agreement together and then submit that to the state employee relations board.
[30:29] so that has to go to Serb.
[30:32] Okay.
[30:33] And that's all for my updates.
[30:36] Michelle, that's a lot.
[30:37] Thank you.
[30:40] Well, you've seen everything I've been working on.
[30:42] Yes, we have.
[30:45] Other than that, it's just been reporting.
[30:47] January's a big reporting time frame in the HR.
[30:50] So we've been doing that and everything's up to date
[30:55] as far as that goes.
[30:56] and letter 1, that's what I have next, letter 1, March 6th and 7th, okay, we've got that.
[31:08] Thank you.
[31:10] We're all you're doing.
[31:12] Go ahead.
[31:13] Sorry.
[31:13] What's the charter amendment?
[31:16] Should we have copies of that charter amendment to put in our rolls and regulation pamphlet
[31:26] and the duties that it calls for, so we all have a hard copy, I think so, yes.
[31:36] And you know, because the years go by.
[31:38] Right.
[31:41] That's a good suggestion.
[31:42] Yes.
[31:43] Thank you.
[31:45] We will get you the new copy.
[31:48] Okay.
[31:48] Yeah.
[31:49] More and more hurry.
[31:50] Great.
[31:51] Yeah, next meeting.
[31:53] That's fine.
[32:01] Do you have any questions for us?
[32:03] Thanks so pretty much covered everything very thorough. Thank you. Hope you're my
[32:10] can you doing fabulous thing else before we make a motion to adjourn have I I do I'm
[32:22] sorry I know you had I had sent you about what we're doing reviews lore you
[32:26] asked for a copy I did not bring copies for everyone I had the original like I
[32:32] printed if you all want your own. I don't know how you want to do it. You'll fill out one.
[32:39] What I did include just like Michelle did. The mayor had us do a self-evaluation even though
[32:44] we were starting with performance reviews. The mayor said instead of him completing it he wanted
[32:50] us to complete it for ourselves which Michelle and I did back in October but not all people were
[32:57] required to do it. But
[33:02] if you want copies as well, let me know of my and press the
[33:07] email. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Yes. My self evaluation is the one that was included
[33:14] in that. What I gave you earlier. All right. Thank you. Just related to that.
[33:24] I hope like to, do you have established goals that you work up on?
[33:34] Well, we do, at the beginning of the year, the mayor has us do an annual report on what we want to do throughout the year.
[33:41] So yes, I have that, and I submitted to the mayor at the end of the year, so I can submit that report to the commission.
[33:47] I will give you my 2025 annual report.
[33:51] Okay. Yes. Just because we don't get the preview of the day-to-day. Right. No. Right. Okay.
[33:59] Let's do better this last one.
[34:01] Good.
[34:03] And our next good remaining is Wednesday, March 4th, at 6 p.m. We have nothing else.
[34:10] We can have a motion to adjourn. I'm like a motion to adjourn.
[34:14] That's all in favor. Five. The time is 6.35.