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Fire chief proposes promotional-exam schedule and 75% passing score; vendors, costs outlined
Summary
The fire chief presented a timeline and vendor proposals for lieutenant and captain promotional exams, recommended Resource Management Associates for assessment centers and Ohio Fire Chiefs for the written test, and proposed a 75% passing threshold and study-material distribution to give candidates roughly 60 days to prepare.
Fire department leadership presented a proposal to the civil service commission on Feb. 3 to run captain and lieutenant promotional exams this spring, laying out vendor options, estimated costs and a schedule that would start with an official test announcement on Feb. 18 and finish with assessment centers May 11–14.
Chief Womack (identified in the transcript as the department chief) told commissioners the department solicited proposals from four testing firms and recommends using Resource Management Associates (RMA) for the assessment center work and Ohio Fire Chiefs for the written exam. He said Ohio Fire Chiefs’ written test would cost about $2,500 while RMA’s assessment center is estimated at about $19,000; Ohio Fire Chiefs’ full-service quote was listed at about $20,000 but would…
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