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Commission reviews draft to accept out-of-area CPAT transfers for firefighter recruits
Summary
The Davenport Civil Service Commission was presented a draft change to rule 2.5 that would let the city accept CPAT transfers from the Quad Cities Consortium and the National Testing Network to widen the applicant pool; the item was informational and will be voted on next month.
Speaker 4 presented a proposed amendment to Davenport’s civil service rule 2.5 to expand which Candidate Physical Ability Test (CPAT) results the city will accept for firefighter recruits. The draft would add two sources — the Quad Cities Consortium and the National Testing Network — to the existing Eastern Iowa Consortium transfer policy.
The proposed change aims to let candidates who completed an accepted CPAT elsewhere within the past year transfer that result rather than retake the physical test in Davenport.…
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