Establishing a Merit System of Promotions for the Bureau of Police

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SECTION IV. When a vacancy occurs among any of the Board members, for any cause, this vacancy shall be filled for the duration of the unexpired term in the same manner as the appointment or election previously made of the original Board member. The Board may remove any member at any time upon a conviction of any criminal offense, malfeasance, non- feasance, misconduct which would effect ability to perform duties, or any other inability to serve. Such removal requires a unanimous vote of all Board members exclusive of the member charged or accused. SECTION V. The Merit Board shall establish regulations for the government of the Board and included irf said regulations shall be the time and place for holding of regular meetings and for holding special meetings throughout the year as may be deemed necessary for it to transact the business of the Board. A lawful transaction of the business of the Board requires a majority of its members to be present. At its first meeting each year, the Board shall select from its members, a president and vice - president. The secretary of the Board shall be the Clerk of the Board of Public Safety. The Board shall make and keep a permanent record of its proceedings. SECTION VI. The Merit Board shall be authorized and directed to prepare, adopt, promulgate, supervise and enforce regulations as follows: (a) To govern promotions and demotions of members of the Bureau of Police. Such regulations shall provide that the following four factors, along with their respective percentages of rating shall be the basic considerations of rating a member of the Bureau of Police for the purpose of promotion: 1. The Grade received by a member on a written, competitive examination pertaining to police knowledge. - 20 %. 2. The Score received in situational testing. - 20 %. 3. The past performance record of a member of the Bureau of Police based upon a formalized system of evaluation during the previous two years of service as a member of said Bureau of Police. - 40 %. The formalized evlauation shall be conducted by the immediate superior officer whose evaluation shall carry 40% weight of the total and three officers of equal or lesser rank each of whose evaluation shall carry 20% weight of the total evaluation. 4. The score received from an oral interview before the Merit Board. - 20 %. The oral interview shall be held after completion of the other testing. The Merit Board shall not have access to the scores of other testing at or before the oral interview. The name or any means of identifcation of any member taking the competitive and situational examinations under the provisions of this Chapter shall be withheld and made unavailable to the person and persons who grade such examinations and all written competitive examinations shall be tma't d�,add filed as confidential, provided; however, that said examination papers shall be made a part of the permanent file of the individual officer taking these examinations and they shall be maintained under the supervision of the Chief of Police. The individual officer and the members of the Board shall have access to this file to examine same at any time., subject to restrictions herein. -3-