05-F Civil Serv Minutes
Alice Pinalto
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Minutes - August 10 Civil Service Meeting
SPECIAL MEETING
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
AUGUST 10,2005
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Philip Cecil @ 3 0' clock p.m. Commissioners present were:
Philip Cecil and Sims Norment. Also present were Civil Service Director, Melba Harris and City Attorney
Larry Schenk.
Chairman Cecil requested information from Melba Harris regarding the proposed amendment to City Civil
Service Rules which would include the discussion regarding the lack of applicants qualified to set for the Fire
Engineer position.
Melba Harris discussed that the Fire Department has a Fire Engineer vacancy that need to be filled. Currently
there are not any, in grade (two years of service in the classification) Fire Drivers who can take the Fire
Engineer exam. Civil Service law allows the Commission to open the competition to Fire Drivers who have
less than two years of service.
In addition to this, a proposal was presented to change the City Rule 11.04 so that if, in the future, there were
positions that needed to be filled and there were not enough in grade fire or police department staff in the next
lower level to hold a competitive examination; the Civil Service Director could consider staff with less than two
years of service and if still not competitive, consider the second lower classified staff with two years of service.
A motion was made by Sims Norment and second by Philip Cecil to approve the amendment to Rule 11.04 of
the Civil Service Rules of the City of Paris to give the Civil Service Director approval to open competition up to
additional Civil Service staff as allowed by the Local Government Code, Chapter 143 when there are not
enough applicants to conduct a competitive examination for a vacant Civil Service position. The motion was
approved. The amendment is attached to these minutes.
The meeting was adjourned.
Melba P. Harris
Civil Service Director
ATTACHMENT:
Consider an amendment to Rule 11.04 of the Civil Service Rules of the City of Paris, said amended rule to
read as follows:
11.04. Each promotional examination shall be competitive. The Commission has determined
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that for an examination to be competitive, at least one (1) person more than the number of
vacancies must actually take the examination and attempt to secure the promotion. In the
event there are insufficient candidates in grade with two (2) years of experience to fill the
number of positions available, then the Commission authorizes the Civil Service Director to
open the examination to persons in grade with less than two (2) years experience. If there
are still insufficient candidates, the Commission authorizes the Civil Service Director to
open the examination to persons with at least two (2) years experience in the next lower
grade, in salary, to the position for which the examination is to be held. All candidates must
have at least two (2) years service in the department to test and be promoted.
Motion made and seconded this 10 day of
August ~ 2005.
Voting in favor of said motion:
AYES
NAYS
Philip Cecil, Chairman
PARIS CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
POSTED: THURSDAY. AUGUST 10, 2005 @
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