Civil Service Commission Minutes - 07/09/19640
CITY OF WICHITA FALLS
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION MINUTES
July 9, 1964
The Civil Service Commission met in the council room July 9,
1964, at 10:00 A.M.
Those present were:
Lyle Cherry, Chairman
John Estes, Member
H.P. Hodge, City Attorney
A. Martinez, Director of Civil Service
Bob Jolliff, Director of Public Safety
Chief Daniel, Chief of Police
Sgt. Johnny Cawyer
Bill Browning, Attorney
Peggy Rosser, Secretary
The meeting was requested by Sgt. Cawyer who asked for a
hearing regarding three of the questions appearing on the Police
Examination for the position of Lt. given June 4, 1964.
Mr. H. P. Hodge, City Attorney, maintained that there had been
a complaint filed by Sgt. Cawyer concerning three of the questions
on the Police Examination. It was the opinion of Sgt. Cawyer that
on these three questions, numbers 53,58, and 74, the answers were
incorrect. Hodge stated that he had gone over the questions with
the director of civil service and found that the questions had been
taken directly from the material given to the persons taking the
examination to study.
Those questions in discussion dealt with ordinances of juvenile
court, identification of officers, and unity of command. Hodge
stated that there was a typegraphical error on question number 74
where a y had been placed on unit making it unity. He said that
it was his opinion that a change this insignificant should not
cause the person taking the examination to answer differently
that he would otherwise.
Bill Browining,Attorney for Sgt. Cawyer, maintained that in
the material which had been compiled by Sgt. Fonville,from which
the material for the examination had been taken, there were two
phases for Unity of Command and that only one had been contained
in the test question.
Therefore he felt that the definition was incomplete and that
this would cause the person to assume the answer to be false. Hodge
pointed out that this is an example of the short - comings of true -
false examinations.
The Civil Service Commission dismissed themselves to review
this case, Mr. Cherry announced that they had not considered ques-
tions 53 and 58 to be correct or incorrect because the fact that
Lt. Lewis and Sgt. Cawyer had answered the questions alike would
not have changed the results of the examination. He stated that
the y on unit in Unity of Command is immaterial and should not
change the answer of the person taking the examination. It was found
by the Commission that this question should have been answered true,
and the positions on the eligibility roster remain the same.
The meeting adjourned at 11:05 A.M.
A. Martinez
Director of Civil Service