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CIOL SERVICE' COMMISSION MEETING MII+UfE '
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March 19, 1987 CITY CLERK
The regular meeting was called to, order at 8 a.m. by Chairmn T. Richard
Ried. In attendance: Commissioners Michele G. Hinz and Joseph A. Street,
City Attorney Driscoll, Administrative Assistant Webby, Captain Byerly, and
Battalion Chief Fronsdahi.
The minutes of January 29, 1987 were accepted as corrected,jr -Mr. Street moved
to accept the minutes of February 24, 1987 as presented. 1s� Hinz seconded
and the motion carried.
Battalion Chief Fronsdahl reported that the nine new firefj,94ters reported for
duty on Monday, the 16th, and are going through orientation and; will be
attending the academy next Monday for six weeks. Chairman,,Ried entered for
the record his congratulations to Assistant Chief LaBore- for,the Medal of
Merit Award he will be receiving tonight.
Captain Byerly reported the following names from the police -officer
eligibility list have been removed by the Secretary: Sean• J. Hartsock, who
withdrew for other employment; Don E. Stevens, failed Polygraph; John F.
Barnes, failed oral board; Anthony A. McNabb, failed oral' Ward; Kirk T. D.
Mills, failed oral board; Russell S. Fick, failed background investigation;
Peter B. Joyce, failed background investigation; Robert M. ,Rost, failed oral
board; David M. Eikum, failed oral board; Douglas P. Jnrnkins, failed
polygraph; Veronica P. Macias, failed oral board; and Cur;t, s L. Tucker,
failed oral board. Captain Byerly noted that four of the s#, positions have
been filled.
Captain Byerly distributed draft copies of proposed revisions to the Rules to
include lateral transfers in the classified service of the,,Po Uce Department.
Revisions are proposed to include the definitions of "lateral entry" in the
Table of Contents, Rule VI, Section 1, and a new section, $ertion 3, Rule VII,
Section 1, Rule X, Section 1, Rule XI, Section 1, Rule XII#Section 1, and new
section, Section 8. Captain Byerly clarified that laterall. entry is proposed
for line level police officers and there will still be a-yOe year probationary
period. He explained that these,,,proposals are yet in the.#roliminary stages.
Each of the proposed changes and additions were reviewed 4n4, discussed by the
Commission.
Copies of Chief Frederiksen's memo dated February 20, 1981;�jw ,sent prior to
this meeting to the Commission members. They told of thq ill ointments to the
position of Probationary Police Officer of Robert R. Hobdy larin P. Majack,
and Lisa Gullikson. Gary R. Fox was appointed to Probatioary Police Officer
III. All appointments are effective February 23, 1987. . Hinz moved, Ntr.
Street seconded, to accept the memos into the record. Motif carried.
The memo of February 24, 1987 from Assistant Chief LaBore,Anforming of the
promotion of Raymond Shjerven to First Class Firefighter eff ptive
February 16, 1987 was read. Mr. Street moved, Ms. Hinz seconded, to accept
the memo into the record. Motion carried.
Copies of Battalion Chief Fronsdahl's,letters of February 27, 1987 to the nine
probationary firefighters were sent to the Commission members prior to this
meeting. The letters are to James G.14erritt, Conrad V. Matsuoka,
Christopher A. Kroha, Christopher 0. Lindahl, John K. Peiguss, Kenneth R.
Heintz, Robert W. Johnson, Roger A. Stubblefield and John P. Nohr informing
them of their appointments effective,frch 16, 1987. Mr. Street moved, Ms.
Hinz seconded, to accept the letters Ahto the record, and motion carried.
Copies of Chief Frederiksen's memo to the Police Department personnel, dated
March 2, 1987, was also provided to the Commission previously. The memo
informed of the promotions of Robert M. Holt and William H. Mitchell to the
rank of Police Sergeant and their temporary assignments. Ms. Hinz moved to
accept the memo into the record. Mr. Street seconded and motion carried.
The letter from police applicant, James R. Kinnunen, requesting permission to
inspect and receive copies of all documents and records in his files was the
next item on the agenda. Ms. DriscolVgxplained and interpreted the Public
Records Act. She said his file is a Oublic record. Under State statutes, an
employee has the right to look at his records. Ms. Driscoll commented as to
disclosure, the Supreme Court recently created a general right to privacy
under the law. She said if Mr. Kinnun is permitted to see his records, it
would be open to others as well. She noted there are many items in his file
that would violate the right to privacy. Under the Public Records Law, there
is a list of items that are exempt from disclosure, among them test questions,
scoring keys, or other examination data used to administer a licensed
employment or academic examination. The court has established another
exemption area if a particular record would substantially and irrevocably
damage a vital government function, it-'should not be released. To release
some of the Police Department's confintial testing of individuals is a
private type of data which would subsntially and irrevocably damage vital
government function. In addition, she said the Public Records Law was passed
in general that records should be released if it is going to be in the
interest of the public to see how a government functions. Under that
analysis, she said it seems Mr. Kinnunen wants to see the records for his own
individual reasons, not to see how the government functions. For those
reasons, Ms. Driscoll recommended not releasing anything other than a few
documents of general correspondence that he has already seen. She suggested
she would draft a letter to Mr. Kinnun" for the Secretary, giving a detailed
reason for the denial. She cautioned if he should challenge, he could get
remuneration and attorney's fees- if hods successful, but she thinks the
Commission has a strong argument. Mr. Street moved to instruct the City
Attorney to direct a response to Mr. Kinnunen. Mr. Ried amended the motion to
"draft a response for the Secretary's 4ignature". Ms. Hinz added an amendment
to accept the City Attorney's recommenotion to deny access to the meat of the
material he is seeking. Ms. Hinz secoed the motion and amendments. Motion
carried.
Copies of the letter from FirefighterAndre Yoakum and the response from the
Secretary were provided earlier to the Commission. Ms. Hinz moved and Mr.
Street seconded to direct Secretary to 'respond to Mr. Yoakum confirming the
initial letter to him. Motion carried. '
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The memo dated March 1$, 1987 from Assistant Chief LaBore,f8ffi�rnting of the
following promotions was read: Brian Kingery, Aldrich Kre{ , 'Richard Olsen,
Bob Rush, Ron Sweigard, and Guy Thompson to Third Class Firefighter, effective
March 10, 1987. The following were promoted to Second Class Firefighter,
effective March 16, 1987: Brian Bratz, Kevin Garling, Roger Kacmarcik, Keith
Kepler, Kent Knight, Gary Read, John Robbins, and Dennis Wilson.
The next meeting date is April 16, 1987, 8 a.m., in the Council Chambers.
Meeting adjourned at 9:20 a.m.
Respectfully submitted,
my E. Kato
Secretary and Chief 'Examiner
Approved:
T. Richard Ried
Chairman
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