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Tumwater civil service commission votes to allow expedited retest after sergeant exam score sheets were destroyed
Summary
The Tumwater Civil Service Commission voted 2-1 to allow an expedited retest for candidates who failed the recent police sergeant assessment after original rating sheets were inadvertently destroyed and candidates could not verify their scores.
The Tumwater Civil Service Commission on an 2-1 vote approved an expedited retest for the police sergeant assessment after four candidates protested that they could not verify scores because rating sheets were destroyed.
Commission chair Blake Chard and two commissioners heard a formal protest and related public comment about the February oral assessment that placed three candidates above the 70% passing threshold and four below it. Michelle Sutherland, the civil service secretary and chief examiner, told commissioners she had transcribed raters’ numerical scores onto an Excel spreadsheet after the assessment but that the original rating sheets were later destroyed by mistake before candidates could examine…
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