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Commission discusses adding civilian EMS roles to merit ordinance protections
Summary
At its July 8 meeting, the Evansville Fire Merit Commission discussed language to include civilian EMS positions in the commission's merit ordinance so those employees would have an appeal path for negative personnel actions; no ordinance was adopted at the meeting.
At its July 8 meeting, the Evansville Fire Merit Commission discussed adding civilian emergency medical services positions to the commission's merit ordinance so those employees would have a mechanism to appeal certain negative personnel actions. The commission did not vote to adopt ordinance changes at the meeting.
The matter drew its most detailed explanation from the Fire Chief, who said the civilian EMS roles would not be merit positions under state law but that the ordinance change would give those employees a defensible appeal…
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