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City of McHenry
Board of Police Commissioners
April 6, 2016
Chairman Rick Huber called the meeting to order at 4:00 PM in the City of McHenry Council Chambers
with the following Commissioners present: Ramon Gregorio and Mike Roberts. Absent: None. Also
present: Chief John Jones, Deputy Chief John Birk, City Attorney David McArdle, Human Resources
Manager Ann Campanella and Deputy City Clerk Marci Geraghty.
Public Input:
None.
1. Consideration of March 3, 2016 Meeting Minutes
Motion by Roberts, seconded by Gregorio to approve the minutes from the March 3, 2016 Police
Commission meeting as presented.
Voting Aye: Roberts, Gregorio, Huber
Voting Nay: None
Abstaining: None
Not Voting: None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
2. Unfinished Business
a) Discussion on proposed updates to the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Police
Commissioners manual and anticipated motion to approve proposed amendments. City Attorney
McArdle was present at the meeting to guide the Commission on updating the Rules and
Regulations manual. The current manual was amended in 2009 and contains the rules that relate
to hiring, promoting, and firing of police officers; discipline is now mainly regulated by the
collective bargaining agreement.
After some discussion the Board unanimously agreed to direct Attorney McArdle to prepare an
updated version of the Rules and Regulations manual for consideration by the McHenry City
Council. The following amendments and revisions were recommended:
Lateral Eligibility List: Currently, if the Commission wants to hire someone with experience
from another agency, the applicant must go through the testing process to make the eligibility list
exactly as a candidate with no experience. This process is time consuming. A Lateral Eligibility
List as previously discussed by the Commission will be included in the manual.
Military Points: The maximum age for applicants is 35 years. An provision will be included for
Veterans stating that for every full year of service shown on the DD2 the maximum eligible age
to apply for will be extended by one year up to a maximum of 10 years of military service.
Education Requirements: Bachelor Degree (4-year degree) to qualify to apply. This provision
will be waived by statute if the applicant has served 36 months of active duty in the US Military
and received an Honorable Discharge or, 180 days of active combat duty and received an
Honorable Discharge with proof of DD214.
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Eligibility List.
Any officer candidate scoring 70 points or less out of a maximum of 100 points will not
make placement on the eligibility list.
The Chief of Police will have authority to select the top three available candidates with
the highest scores from the list in any order.
Add a footnote to Eligibility List stating all applicants who are not on the initial posting
of the final eligibility register and wish to utilize military points to reach the 70 point
minimum may contact Human Resources within 10 days.
A minimum of 75 total points must be scored for placement on the Sergeant Promotion
List.
Age and Education Requirements:
Section 5 Paragraph 2 will be amended to clearly define “prior law enforcement
experience.” The Board agreed to remove “prior law enforcement experience” and
replace it with “. . . have a minimum of two years full-time law enforcement experience
with a current certification through the Illinois Training and Standards Board or an
affiliate state that would allow a transfer. . .”
Detail Ranks of the Department:
Chief (1), Deputy Chief (1), Commander (2), Sergeant (7). It was noted the rank of
Commander should also be included in Municipal Code Chapter 18. Attorney McArdle
suggested breaking down Municipal Code Chapter 18 into two headings; Police
Department and Police Commission and also adding a third sub-category (title to be
determined) to include Police Commission Rules.
Oral Interview/Written Exams:
Addition of language in the manual stating oral interviews are conducted as a joint effort
by the Police Commission and members of the Police Department.
The process of how oral and written exams are conducted and scored should be overtly
stated in the manual.
Attorney McArdle was invited to the meeting in May to review a draft of proposed amendments
to the Rules and Regulations prior to presentation to the City Council.
b) Update on Development of Lateral Entry Eligibility List. No discussion at this time.
c) Department Updates
This past week, Officer Ehardt started on patrol solo. Currently four officers are down for
various reasons and one officer resigned, however one officer was reassigned from a federal
agency and will be back on patrol.
3. New Business
None.
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4. Communications
a) There were no bills presented for payment.
5. Motion to Adjourn
There being no further business to discuss, Gregorio made a motion, seconded by Roberts to adjourn
the meeting.
Voting Aye: Gregorio, Roberts, Huber
Voting Nay: None
Abstaining: None
Not Voting: None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 PM. Next meeting of the Police Commission is May 4, 2016.
Respectfully submitted,
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Marci Geraghty, Recording Secretary