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give, you are required to take an entrance exam and pass that exam in order to be on the eligibility list. The eligibility list is taken from the test, based on your score, and there are occasions where you have people who have been a veteran of the military, and they are allowed, if they have served enough and got an eligible honorable discharge. Then, they would added that to their score. There are requirements in there, and one is that they have to been in the military. They have to present that to us prior to the time of taking the test. From the eligibility list, the fire chief, or police chief ask me for the top three names from that list, which I furnish to them. There are two ways in which this is done. We have done it both ways. If we are in a hurry to hire someone, we sometimes take all the eligible people who have passed the test, and give them a physical or assessment test. By this I mean, they are required to do some physical activities, such as run a mile, either a mile or a mile and a half, sit -ups, bench press, set and reach, and once they have passed that, then that generally reduce's the field a little bit because not everyone is in physical shape to do that. The top three are given to the police chief or fire chief, and from there they are interviewed by a committee at the Fire Department, or the Police Department, which is composed of, generally, your deputy Chiefs in the Fire Department, and in the Police Department Lt. Hundley, Lt. Hodges. The three Lieutenants do the interviewing process. But, it has to come from the eligibility list. Now we have an additional thing that is going to be effective September the 1St, and that is the Legislature just recently passed a law that allow sus to give a entrance examination at another location, for example, a way from Paris at the same time we are giving one here in Paris, so we could go to a college, or another location. We could go to another town and give the same time, the same test that we give here. Give both at the same time and you would develop one roster list from the test that was taken from the two locations. This is something new, and the reason for it is because there is so much difficulty right now in the recruitment, particularly in the Police Department. Gray Can I say something. Haynes Yes sir.