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Council reviews comprehensive rewrite of city civil service rules affecting police hiring and promotions
Summary
Bexley City Council held second reading of Ordinance 12-35, a substantially rewritten set of civil service commission rules that align the city code with the Ohio Revised Code and narrow the manual to focus more on hiring and promotions in the police department.
Second reading of Ordinance 12-35 moved forward Wednesday as council members and commission representatives described a comprehensive rewrite of the city’s civil service rules.
The draft ordinance replaces an older, sprawling rulebook with a shorter set of rules intended to conform Bexley’s civil service procedures to the Ohio Revised Code and to modernize processes for hiring and promoting police officers, presenters said.
Commission member Mark (Civil Service Commission) told council the existing rules had not seen a comprehensive review since the 1980s and that the rewrite reduced the manual…
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