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CITY OF '" '"
AUBURN
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Peter B. Lewis, Mayor
25 West Main Street * Auburn WA 98001-4998 * www.auburnwa.gov * 253-931-3000
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION MEETING
Meeting Minutes of September 13, 2005
The regularly scheduled meeting of the Civil Service Commission was held September
13, 2005, in Resource Room #2 located on the second floor of Auburn City Hall, 25
West Main Street, Auburn, WA. The following members were in attendance.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Dick Kammeyer, Chairman; Charles Booth, Member; Cyril Van
Selus, Member; Gail Solberg, Secretary/Chief Examiner
STAFF PRESENT: Police Chief Jim Kelly; Fire Chief Russ Vandver; Assistant City
Attorney Joe Beck
GUESTS: none
ACTION:
Chairman Kammeyer called the meeting to order at 3:35 p.m.
Approval of August 9, 2005 Civil Service meeting minutes.
Minutes were accepted as written.
COMMISSION
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Solberg stated that the Sergeants test is scheduled for October 25 and 26, 2005. We
are in the initial stages of planning and will be posting the official announcement within
the next few weeks. Letters have been sent to surrounding agencies requesting
assessors. Chief Kelly stated that the test will be similar to past tests.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Chairman Kammeyer presented a letter from HR Director Heineman recommending
continuing with our current entry-level fire testing process while researching the Bates
Fire Testing as an option in the future. Booth motioned to extend the current entry-level
fire list until a new list is established; Van Selus seconded; motion was carried. The
Civil Service Examiner will begin preparing testing for a new entry-level fire test
immediately.
There was discussion to limit the maximum number of applications to 150 (vs. the 500
distributed in previous years). Solberg stated that the school will hold up to 250 per
testing session and for the last test we held 2 sessions between 8:00 and 12:00 with a
total of 333 participants. The decision was to follow the same process as the last test
and make 500 applications available to candidates. Solberg stated once we advertise
for the test we will accept applications for two weeks.
AUBURN * MORE THAN YOU IMAGINED
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The A1C Fire list will expire October 8. Chief Vandver stated that other than entry level
we typically extend the list for 2 years, as we have with Battalion Chief and Captain.
Booth motioned to extend the current A1C Fire list for another year; Van Selus
seconded; motion was carried.
ADJOURNMENT:
There being no further business to come before the Commission, the meeting
adjourned at 3:50 p.m.
cc: Commission Members
Mayor Peter B. Lewis
Police Chief Jim Kelly
Asst Police Chief Bob Lee
Fire Chief R Vandver
Asst Fire Chief Gerber
Brenda Heineman, Director of Human
Resources/Risk Mgmt
Dan Heid, City Attorney
Dani Daskam, City Clerk
Joe Beck, Assist. City Attorney
Police Guild/Mark Callier
FF Union Local #1352/Doug
Darmody
Rudy Peden, FD Training
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
Dick Kammeyer, Chairman
Cyril Van Selus, Member
Charles A. Booth, Member
Gail Solberg, Secretary/Chief Examiner