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Schererville Board of Safety rescinds one conditional offer, extends another as hiring process advances
Summary
The Schererville Town Board of Safety voted to rescind a conditional offer to one candidate and approve a conditional offer to another as the police hiring process advances; officials said physical and written tests are complete and oral interviews will be scheduled.
Schererville Town Board of Safety members voted Thursday to rescind a conditional offer of employment to one police candidate and to extend a conditional offer to a different candidate as the department moves to schedule oral interviews for a new hiring list.
Police Chief Peter Sormoz told the board that the department had completed the physical agility test on March 22 and that the written exam was completed this week. "We're waiting for the results on that to schedule the oral interviews," Deputy Chief Steve McNamara said, adding that the board would be contacted once the testing company provides results and the department can set up interview boards.
The board approved a motion to rescind the conditional offer to Joshua Larson. The chair called for a roll-call vote; Eric Grama, George Kouras, David Enningenburg and Robert Volkmann voted in favor. Later in the meeting the board voted to extend a conditional offer to Nicholas "Nick" Flayhive after the chief said Flayhive had "completed all aspects of the process as of last week." Board members again voted in favor by roll call.
Board members and staff discussed logistics for oral interviews. McNamara said the department uses Stenard and Associates to administer the process and that interviews could require two or three days depending on the number of candidates. "If we have as many as 16, that would be a 2 or 3 day process," a board member said. Sormoz and McNamara said the board typically supplies one trained member to sit on interview panels; additional members could be added if needed and trained.
The board also approved the minutes of the March 6, 2025, meeting by roll-call vote.
The decisions came amid routine departmental correspondence the board acknowledged, including thank-you letters from the Munster Police Department for assistance with a funeral procession for a fallen officer and from First Merchants Bank for repeated fire-department responses to false alarms.
Officials said they would notify board members about the timeline for oral interviews once final test results are received and the vendor schedules the panels.
