2002-03 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 7 - OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES GENERALLY

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• acceptable if an individual is completing his or her education and is seeking employment;or if they are currently employed and are considering a career change. The two year eligibility register creates several problems in light of our ongoing and active recruiting process. ■ Under the current system, we cannot accurately predict when we will exhaust an eligibility register in the second year. This creates issues in the recruiting program when potential applicants inquire as to when we will be doing testing. Our response is that it may be two years away, causing applicants to look elsewhere. ■ Once we exhaust the eligibly register, we are then placed in a position of attempting to begin the application process in a time period which is not optimal. Prospective candidates may still in school and not eligible to accept an offer of employment or we are forced to delay the application process for many months. This can create periods of time when staffng levels would fall below an acceptable level and would put the department in a situation where we are trying to "catch up." ■ Potential applicants aze graduating on an annual basis, looking for employment. If we are prohibited from testing on an annual basis, these viable applicants are recruited and hired by other agencies before we have the opportunity to test and/or make a job offer. ■ It lessens the cost effectiveness of our recruiting efforts to be recruiting when in fact, none of the prospective applicants can apply for a position within the next year. • POTENTIAL OBJECTIDNS: None anticipated. BUDGET/TIME IMPLICATIONS: Staff desires this change in civil service rules prior to I, commencing the application period for police officer candidates in mid January, 2002. �, STAFF REFERENCE: Mark Barthelemy, Chief of Police, telephone 424-2741 � E-mail mark.barthelemy@decaturnet.org •