SUMMARY OF REPORTS OF MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONS FOR THE YEAR 1909 (Statistical summary facing page 631) Albany The present commissioners, originally appointed January 1, 1902, are Donald McDonald (chairman), gas meter manufacturer; William V. R. Irving, attorney-at-law, and Frank A. McNamee, insurance manager. The commission is nonsalaried. Commissioner Irving is secretary and for this service receives an annual salary of $1,000. The commission employs a clerk, Sherman A. Murphy, appointed June 1, 1907, salary $600 per annum. Number of persons reported in the unclassified service does not include superintendents, principals or teachers in the educational department, or election officers. Number of laborers employed varies from 250 to 650 according to season. Commission attributes lack of competition for positions of draughtsman and inspector to the fact that like positions in the State service offer better opportunities. Notice of time and place of holding examinations is published in Albany papers and posted in the city hall, at least ten days before date set for examination. Persons who have filed application are notified by mail at least five days before examination. Papers are prepared and answers rated by the secretary and clerk and are generally submitted to the commissioners. All ratings are subject to review by the commission. Application papers and eligible lists are preserved and are open to public inspection. Answer papers are preserved and may be inspected by persons who took the examination. No provisional examinations held during year. Laborers are registered under special titles for the bureaus of parks, streets and water. Besides twenty-four resignations in the competitive class, four persons were retired and twelve died dur ing the year. All promotions reported have been made after examination. There have been no appeals from ratings and no exceptions from examination. Provisions of the law giving preference to veterans have been strictly complied with by appointing officers. Pay-rolls are compared with roster and if correct are certified by the secretary or by the clerk in the name of the secretary. Pay-rolls of the educational department are certified, except as to teachers, principals and superintendents. All employments in the labor class are made after certification from registration list. The commission has a complete roster of the city employees which, with its other records, the commission believes, makes it possible to establish the legality of the appointment of all persons now in the classified service. Amsterdam The Commissioners are Edward Madden, carpenter; Frazier C. Witcomb, newspaper manager; and Frank J. Swan, salesman, all reappointed on January 1, 1909. The Commissioners receive $5 per meeting for not to exceed twenty meetings. The salary of the secretary, W. H. Davidson, is $300 per annum. Number of persons reported in the unclassified service includes school teachers and election officers. Commission states limited service and inadequate compensation as reasons for small number of candidates in some examinations. Commission gives five days' notice of examinations by publication in official papers. Examinations are prepared and rated by the Commission. Papers are preserved and open to public inspection. No provisional or emergency examinations held. Laborers registered under titles of laborer, teamster, paver and foreman and the Commission states the provision of the law regarding registration of laborers and employments from the registration lists, has been complied with in the case of all laborers regularly employed. No appeals from ratings and no exceptions from examination under section 15, paragraph 2 of the Civil Service Law. Commission states that pay-rolls are certified by the secretary and that the provision of the law regarding certification has been strictly complied with. |