Bill No. 22-13 Substitute Establishing A Process For Selection of Community Police Review Board Office Director & Proceess for Appointment of the Initial Review Board Member

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WHEREAS, Section 2-12.1.13 also states that no Council Member may nominate no more than three(3) candidates for appointment to the Review Board and requires at least one (1) Board Member be appointed from each City Councilmanic district; and WHEREAS, no candidates for the Director position have been interviewed since the previous Director resigned on August 20, 2021 and no process has been approved or written to provide a guide or framework for Council as Council reviews and selects its candidates for Director, as required by the Ordinance and as stated above; and WHEREAS, applications for Review Board Members were first accepted during the summer of 2021, but none have been selected and no process has been written or approved to provide a guide or framework for Council as Council reviews and selects its appointees for Review Board Members; and WHEREAS, Council must fulfill its commitment to the community in a written and transparent process and move forward the both the processes of reviewing & selecting applicants for the Director and reviewing and appointmenting Review Board Members; and WHEREAS, Council believes that selection process plans should now be approved and put into place so that the process may begin and work on the Review Board Office can move forward. NOW, THEREFORE,be it RESOLVED that the Common Council of the City of South Bend now do hereby agree and commit to the two selection processes as follows: Section One. REVIEW & SELECTION PROCESS FOR THE DIRECTOR. 1. All applicants from the spring 2021 hiring process have been previously notified of re- opening of the application process and Human Resources has continued to collect applications since late November. 2. The position will remain open and posted on the City website until such time as the position is filled. 3. If at any point in this process no applicants in the pool are determined to be qualified or all applicants have been removed from consideration, the City shall locate and hire a recruiting company as soon as possible to assist in the search for qualified applicants and creation of a new pool of applicants using the process of this Resolution.