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Below is the first 40 minutes of the Portsmouth Civil Service Commission Quarterly Meeting held on July 31st 2009. Due to an equipment limitation the last part of the meeting was not recorded. The problem has been identified and will be corrected by the next meeting.
Issues discussed at this meeting;
- Voluntary Removal of several police officers from the promotion list - Approved
- Request to Reinstate Brian K. Hall to the Police Department - Approved
- Portsmouth Fire Departments request to institute a no tobacco use policy both on and off duty. I expect this will pass the next time presented if the city institutes the changes the Civil Service Commission members wanted. - Tabled
- Presentation by Dr. Ford involving a new entry level Firefighters exam due to Department of Justice Agreement. Dr. Ford was with CWH Research, Inc. 9360 Teddy Lane Suite 203 Lone Tree, Colorado 80124
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One Response to "No Tobacco use on or off duty coming to PFD .. Portsmouth Civil Service Commission Quarterly Meeting 7/31/09"
August 19th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
well as a current smokesless tobacco user I believe that this is crazy. it has been tried before in many agencies and the only thing it does is have grown adults sneaking around to use tobacco. wether u agree that it is bad or even care it is not admin duties to make it so. the sheriff dept had it under the ofrmer sheriff an dmany of dep did it anyway. just because u use tobacco does not make u n worse shape. i know many that dont and they cant measure up to some of the smokers i no i hate cig smoke but i dont care nor should anyone else care if someone chooses to do it. i also know several that milk the health care system for thousands that dont usse and no many that do that have not gone to dr in ages leave em alone and stay out of there lungs