The New Orleans Civil Service Commission convened on June 22, 2026, at 4:00 PM CT to address a range of personnel and policy matters, including approvals of minutes, routine extensions, introductions of proposed rule amendments, and a report on 2025 performance evaluations. A special meeting was scheduled for July 21, 2026, to further discuss major rule changes due to the lack of a quorum on one item.
We have a motion come out of executive session. Okay. We're out of executive session. Amy, uh go through the business meeting agenda. Okay, good afternoon. Item number one on the business meeting agenda are the minutes for June 12th, 2026. Okay. I'll move to approve. Second. I agree well. So minutes are approved. Okay, thank you. Item number two is the ratification of public integrity bureau extension requests. Has there been any opposition asserted relative to any? No, we have not received any uh comment calls. Okay. I'll move to approve. Second. I agree as well. Approved. Thank you, Commissioners. Item number three A under rule amendments is introduction of a proposed amendment to rule seven, section one point one working test periods. Commissioners, this is an amendment to our current working test periods rule. Um as you know, the current working test period for all employees for promotions and new hires is one year. Uh this is an amendment to the working test period rule that would uh give employees in the executive service classifications a two-year working test period. Um if you recall, uh last year we put in a rule to allow departments um some flexibility to uh compensate the highest of the highest level classified positions. Uh we deem those the executive service classifications, those are classifications at pay grade one or one oh two or higher. Um so those uh to give you some examples, um those are some of your higher level engineering positions, personnel director, assistant chief uh administrative officer, director of mosquito control. So our highest level positions as designated in the civil service pay plan at pay grade 102 or higher, and this would uh give them a two-year working test period. Um, and what that does when you're talking about the positions at a very high level, um, that allows for the appointing authority to assess, you know, are they through a whole budget cycle, right? Are they through uh high-level long-term projects? How do they do? So it gives some additional time to make an assessment of these very high-level uh positions. Questions? These positions are these are typically held by a single individual. These wouldn't be mostly absolutely with the exception of maybe some of those high-level engineering positions. There's usually multiple incumbents in uh in those higher level engineering positions, but yes, for the most part, it's going to be uh one incumbent uh positions. Okay. And this would not impact current employees in those job classes, it's only prospective, so it would be any new hires or promotions into those job classifications. Okay, and these are not um, these aren't positions that are tested for in the same way that like a larger applicant pool, like police are fired, take tests in large groups and they're ranked and hired. This is more like there's still an interview process and people might be scored and ranked, but it's yeah, it's basically you do a rating of training and experience for those high-level positions. You're looking at their credentials. So we usually don't do job simulations for those positions. Okay. Um again, this is just an introduction. Uh we'll let this this lie over until the next meeting. If anybody's interested in receiving a copy of these pro this proposed rule change, they can email us at CSNO at NOLA.gov and we're happy to provide a copy of the of the rule change, and anybody can come to the next meeting and make comments on the proposed. The justification for the two-year period is that the in this type of work, it might be uh an economist, for example, who it takes a while to find out if their forecasts are useful or competent. Exactly. Like yeah, exactly.