Minutes Civil Service 4 6 07CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
Date: Thursday, April 5, 2007
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Place of Meeting: City Hall -Conference Room A
Present: Chairperson Merle Duehr, Commissioners Loras Kluesner and Dick
Wertzberger
Also Present: Personnel Manager Randy Peck, Dave Baker -Teamsters Union
1. Approve Minutes of March 28, 2007
Motion by Wertzberger to approve the minutes of March 28, 2007 as amended to
change the application deadline Confidential Account Clerk from May 13, 2007 to
April 13, 2007. Seconded by Kluesner, passed unanimously.
2. Establish Passing Point and Certify List for Position of Engineering
Technician
Kluesner moved to receive and file the recommendation from staff and to
establish the passing point for the position of Engineering Technician at 55%.
Seconded by Wertzberger. Personnel Manager Randy Peck stated that it had
been previously approved to have the certified list be good for two years and he
would request that this be changed to one year. The motion was amended to
reflect this. Motion passed 3-0. Wertzberger moved to certify the list as read.
Seconded by Kluesner, passed unanimously.
3. Establish Passing Point and Certify List for Position of Equipment Operator
I I
Dave Baker, Teamsters Local 421, requested that he be allowed to address the
Commission prior to certification of the list for the position of Equipment Operator
II. Commission agreed.
4. Request of Dave Baker, Teamsters Local 421, to Address the Commission
Regarding the Position of Equipment Operator II
Dave Baker stated that job postings for the position of Equipment Operator II
were issued on February 1 and March 5, 2007. The most recent posting was for
a vacancy in the Water Department, which is represented by the Operating
Engineers' bargaining unit. He explained that those employees from the Public
Works Department who are currently on the certified list did not want to accept
the position in the Water Department due to the fact that it was a different
bargaining unit and they would be giving up seniority rights in the Public Works
Department. He stated that for the position of Equipment Operator II, the same
job description was used for all departments but the position itself varied
depending upon what department it was in. He stated they were not opposed to
adding names from the most recent Civit Service test to the certified list but were
opposed to declaring the current list exhausted. It would be his recommendation
that the Equipment Operator II position at the Water Department be an entry
level position specific to the Water Department, similar to the classification at the
Landfill.
Personnel Manager Randy Peck stated that the current certified list is a good list;
however, no one on the list had accepted the Water Department position and
therefore the list was determined to be exhausted in order to be able to re-test to
obtain a new list. He stated an option would be that if the new list was certified
and the same situation occurred where no one accepted the position, they could
void the list, return to the current list and treat the position as an entry level
Equipment Operator position and re-test.
Chairperson Duehr commented that the Code of Iowa specifies the list is to be
certified within 45 days of the examination and questioned whether the
Commission had the option of not opening the envelopes/certifying the list. He
also asked whether the entrance examination could be scheduled in a timely
manner and whether the Operating Engineers' union would be agreeable to
having the position entry level.
Motion by Kluesner to table this item and request an opinion from City Attorney
Barry Lindahl on the Commission's obligation with regard to certifying the list. It
was further requested that the Personnel Manager determine if the Water
Department Manager and Operating Engineer's union were agreeable to re-
testing for the Equipment Operator as an entry level position. Seconded by
Wertzberger. Motion passed 3-0.
5. Election of Chairperson
Duehr moved to nominate Richard Wertzberger as Chairperson. Seconded by
Kluesner. Motion passed 3-0.
There being no further business, upon motion meeting adjourned at 12:18.
Chairperson
Commissioners
Approved at meeting of