- I'm going to call to order this regular session of the City of Bloomington Fire and Merit Commission on June 24th, 2025. First order of business will be to approve the minutes from the Tuesday, May 27th meeting and also the Wednesday, June 18th meeting that you all have copies of. Can I get a motion to approve those minutes? I move we approve the minutes of May 27th and June 18th, 2025. Can I get a second, please? Second. We need to vote.
- All in favor say aye. Aye. Thank you. Those are approved. The next order of business will be a certification of the executive session. The purpose of the executive session is to receive information about current employees as authorized by IC 514 1-5-6.1 B6B and to receive information about prospective employees as authorized by
- IC 5-14-1.5-6.1B5. We're going to sign that right now if you'd like. And we are signing the certification of the executive session. All right. All right. Move on to new business. There is no old business.
- New business will be the approval of the lateral candidates that we have spoken with this evening. Tell me how to pronounce your, both your last names, I'm sorry. Aight. Aight? Yeah. David. David, okay. Can I get a motion to offer Derek Aight, a conditional offer of employment contingent upon the successful completion of all remaining steps in the hiring process? So moved. Can I get a second? Second. All in favor say aye. Aye.
- Any nays? Or everybody said aye. Then can I also get a motion to offer? That's good. Sorry. That motion passes. That motion passes. Perfect. Sorry. Now go for the next one. All right. Can I get a motion to offer Drew, sorry, tell me again. Dayla. Dayla, a conditional offer of employment contingent upon the successful completion of all remaining steps in the hiring process. So moved. Can I get a second? Seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. No nays? That is
- Approved also. Congratulations. Congratulations, gentlemen. Good job, guys. Thank you. I'm going to shake some hands. Yes. So Wynton and Speedway come to the rescue, huh? I'd like you to do the rest of the process, then. Keep doing it. Thanks, sir. All right. I have to make it quick. That's a lot of parts you can do.
- Welcome to the team.
- you're in? Yeah. Okay. Right up front. Okay. Where the where's this petitions, communications, that's any public comment, right? Yeah, so there are no staff meeting, there's no staff reports to give, so. There is no public comment, right? There are no members. Does Mr. Canada, do you have any comments or petitions you'd like to make to the commission? See if he's there. He's awake.
- public so you can go ahead. Can I get a motion for, can I get a motion that we adjourn this meeting of the Fire and Marine Commission? There he is. Do you have anything for us Jordan? Jordan can you hear us? Control this is Houston. Can you hear us?
- I don't have anything. Congrats, guys. All right. All right. Nice. All right. I will make a motion to adjourn. One moment, please, please. You have some movements in item five. Did we get to B2? I'm sorry? Did we get to B2? I don't think. I think we already did those elsewhere, not at this meeting. What's B2?
- I don't have that agenda. I didn't have it on my agenda. Scheduling? You had marked it out here. It was a July 22nd meeting and interviewing of applicants, list creation. Last week, I mentioned it. I had a special one that it would be on this week's agenda about scheduling. How do you want to go forward with scheduling of interviewing applicants where you're wanting one of 15?
- one night with 15 interviews or consecutive nights. Do you wish to discuss that with the commission then? Go right ahead. I do know that since we are not full and Mr. Carroll is going north here shortly, I was wondering if you would want to
- change some of our meetings and not do interviews until you return and have a better chance for forums for the interviews and not schedule interviews until September. And we would want to alter our meeting schedule. I know that's an amendment since we're currently scheduled. Does that put the fire department in a bind if we wait until September? No, because this is all
- creating lists going forward. With the addition of these two that you approved tonight, we'll be fully staffed when they start in September. We would be creating, in lieu of someone putting in the resignation between now and then, right? Essentially, we typically make a list that's contingently approved by you all. That way, when we do have a vacancy, we can quickly pull them because you've already given us your blessing. So that's typically how we've done it. So the next meeting would just be to generate a list
- of the next 15 conditionally approved candidates of which we may or may not use them depending on how many vacancies we have. Thank you. Can we can we meet with three in person? That yeah, if you have three that are in person, that's your report is met and then that person who joins like we did this last time.
- Nicole, when you were joining, because we had three in person, we had our quorum, and you could participate fully, including voting. So yes, that works. So we could do it that way, or we could just wait until you get back. Either way. I can assume. Well, it's no imposition to the department. We should wait till September when you get back. I was just thinking, if something came up where we
- needed to meet on other issues, we've still got that option. That's how we learned to talk about that. Great. There's really no other business I don't think until I can think of. You don't want any disciplinary issues or anything else. Certainly something to pop up and then we can call for, we could use one of our regularly scheduled meetings if it fits, if it works, or we can call a special meeting and any executive sessions that we need to have as a result.
- So I guess where we're at then is not meeting in July and August. We kind of leave them penciled in the calendar in case we need them. But we don't plan to meet in July and August. Next one will be September. Is that agreeable to the convention? Yes. And do you want to have executive sessions to interview 15? Or do you want two nights of
- would you like that date? We're anticipating making this a 15. I know that's a lot. We would send you 15. How would you like to work that? If that needs some thought, is that something that we could email about how to schedule that? Or is that something we need to decide in a meeting? I think the commission should decide how they want to do that. But right now, I think it would be great if you have thoughts about how you want to do that. You've got a sense for how long
- It takes to ask five questions of a candidate. Extrapolate that out 15. If you think you can hang out and do that for about an hour and a half, I'm guessing that's how much time it would spend. It would take. So what about 8 and 7? 8, 1, 9, 7. I'm fine with whatever. Do that as well. I think it's good. Do a split.
- And then you give staff the authority to go ahead and find those dates for the board, for the commission, when you can get it formed together and conduct an eight candidate interview and then a seven candidate interview, right? Perfect. Great, thank you. Christine, speaking of emotions, the kids went up to July and August and then what you just did.
- I don't think we can get any motions to cancel the meeting. I think we just aren't going to have it. We've done that so many times in the past where we don't have a quorum, we just cancel the meeting. No one's had a vote. So I don't feel like we need to do that. I do think it would be a good idea for the commission to vote on splitting up the 15 candidates and doing eight and then seven. Or however many are left when we get to that point. I'm sure there'll be 15. But splitting it up into two relatively equal
- I'll make a motion that in September or the date to be determined later, we will spend two nights with a split number of cannons doing interviews, negative motion. And you give staff authority to go ahead and find those dates for him. And we give staff authority to go ahead and find those dates. Can I get a motion? So moved. Second? Second. All in favor, aye. Aye. That motion carries. Good job.
- I'm sorry about that, I didn't realize. I saw those on the agenda and I thought, we're not interviewing any candidates today, so I crossed it out. I misunderstood what you were doing there. That's what I get for making these random assumptions. Anything else? You might have anything else before we get in motion? In a motion, we adjourn. We adjourn.
- We are adjourned. Good job.