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Fairview Park Civil Service Commission schedules police lateral hiring; agility test set for June 20
Summary
The Civil Service Commission set dates for a police lateral hiring process after an officer resigned: applications are due June 12, the commission will meet June 16 to approve candidates, and the physical agility test is scheduled for June 20. Commissioners and chiefs discussed recruitment challenges and contract impacts.
Commissioner Jennifer Kramer, chairperson of the Fairview Park Civil Service Commission, and other members set a schedule on May 14 for a police lateral hiring process after an officer resigned to move to Florida. The commission noted that applications are due June 12 and scheduled a meeting for June 16 to approve the list of candidates to invite to the physical agility test, which is set for June 20.
City officials told the commission that recent hires had been conducted through an entry examination but that the new police collective bargaining contract may help attract lateral candidates. The minutes state that if recruitment remains insufficient, the police chief will return to request an entry examination via NTN, which the commission said is more expedient than other testing methods.
Commission members and department chiefs discussed logistics: the commission will review the candidate list at a special session on June 16, and Civil Service Commissioners were invited to attend the June 20 physical agility test. No roll-call vote or candidate list appears in the meeting record; the item remains active business for the commission.
The commission also recorded a concern that lateral-hire procedures can impose different rules than those applied to entry-level examination candidates. The commission plans to continue this item at its next meeting.
