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Committee: Fairhope Personnel Board
Date & Time: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 7:15 a.m.
Place: Delchamps Room
161 North Section Street
Subject: Miscellaneous
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COUNTY OF BALDWIN
Personnel Board met at 7 : 15 a .m.
Delchamp 's Room
161 N Section Street, Fairhope , AL 36532
Thursday, April 14 , 2016
Present were:
Members: Diane Thomas, Chairman; Lorenzo Howard , Rob Stankoski , Jenny Erdoes , Pandora
Heathcoe , Human Resources Director and Kevin Boone, City Council Liaison.
Absent: Scherry Douglas
The meeting was called to order at 7:15 a.m.
Minutes from the March 16 , 2015 meeting were approved by a first motion set forth by Lorenzo
Howard and second by Rob Stankoski.
Under old business:
Diane Thomas, Chairman , discussed Chief Petties 's request that the Board review the interview
process for the Police Department. Scherry Douglas and Pandora Heathcoe participated in the
Dispatcher interviews and Lorenzo Howard and Pandora Heathcoe sat in during the Police
Officer interviews the next day. Lorenzo expressed his belief that the interview process was
thorough. His participation allowed him to ask the candidates questions and evaluate the
candidates from an outside perspective. Lorenzo stated that in his opinion it would be an
ex cellent idea for the Board and Human Resources to be included in the interviewing process
going forward.
Chairman Thomas discussed her request to Mayor Kant and the City Council to increase the
Board membership from its current five (5) members to six (6). Mayor Kant did not see a
problem with the request; however, Jack Burrell suggested that the number be increased to seven
(7) members to make it easier to obtain a quorum for meetings. Diane explained to Jack that
since the majority of the current Board members have jobs, the primary concerns were increasing
the pool of members available to sit for disciplinary hearings and to take on projects at the
reque st of the Council or the Mayor. Pandora Heathcoe mentioned she knows someone in the
community who recently moved here and is retired from the State Law offices in New Mexico
who is very interested in becoming a board member and has already picked up an application .
Chairman Thomas addressed Mayor Kant's request for the Personnel Board to review the steps
and promotion standards within the Police Department. It was decided that Scherry Douglass
and Jenny Erdoes meet with Chief Petties to go over the current procedures and al so research the
processes in other agencies as well.
Under new business:
Chainnan Thomas mentioned that the Board will need to research companies to update/upgrade
the compensation study after the current election is completed. Pandora Heathcoe explained that
she has already begun reaching out to other entities statewide for information on merit raise
percentages given in 2015, when was the last time they updated their compensation study and
which firm did they used, and could they send us a copy of their compensation study results.
Lorenzo explained to the Board the process which he and Chairman Thomas went through
during the first compensation study. He brought up for discussion whether an outside firm
should handle this task again or could this process be perfonned in-house by the Personnel
Board. He suggested this discussion be postponed until the May meeting.
Pandora Heathcoe also stated she has begun working with each department head to update all job
descriptions to ensure the correct ones were in place.
The next regularly scheduled Personnel Board meeting will be held Thursday, May 19, 2016 , at
7:15 AM in the Delchamps Room of City Hall.
There being no further business , the meeting was adjourned at 8: 15 AM with first motion set
forth by Lorenzo Howard and second by Rob Stankoski.
Respectfully submitted,
Pandora Heathcoe
Acting Secretary