Public Safety Testing 11/14/2023

Promotional Testing Proposal Page 4 of 12 Public Safety Testing, Inc. EVERETT POLICE DEPARTMENT LIEUTENANT September 28, 2023 •Provide all the typical equipment, supplies, and materials for the training, orientation, and testing process. The City of Everett may be asked to provide specific equipment related to certain exercises as well as reliable internet access. •Create a grading process that conforms to the City’s Personnel/Civil Service Commission’s rules. •Through an empirical process that incorporates the candidate’s performance, the weighted dimensions, and the City’s Personnel/Civil Service Commission’s rules, create a final rank order listing of the candidates tested. •Survey each candidate about his/her observations of the promotional process and the assessment center’s relevance to the position. Phase Three: Post-Test Activities •With a full assessment center, each candidate receives written commendations and recommendations that are created by the assessors. These comments are separated from the objective score sheets, collated for each candidate, and sent to the city, and are intended to assist the candidates in their professional development; and •Provide the City with electronic copies of all the documents related to testing, training, and scoring of candidates. This typically includes the instructions for each exercise, original copies of the score sheets for each candidate created by the assessors, a matrix of the weighted dimensions as they were applied to each exercise, a copy of the raw scores for each candidate in each exercise and for each dimension, the assignment sheet of candidates to letter designators with corresponding photographs, a copy of the training outline provided to the assessors, a copy of the training outline provided to the candidates, a copy of the test schedule, a copy of the written comments made by the assessors to each candidate, the signed test security agreements, and copies of the assessor and candidate critiques. •PST shall appear in any City administrative or civil service proceeding to testify to and provide all necessary information to document the validity of the testing process, to participate in the defense of the testing process conducted by PST pursuant to this Agreement and to otherwise provide any information necessary to the City to evaluate challenges to or appeals from the testing process. PST will appear without additional charge to the City. •The City agrees that if it uses any materials prepared by the Contractor for purposes other than those intended by this Contract, it does so at its sole risk and it agrees to hold the Contractor harmless there fore to the extent such use is agreed to in writing by the Contractor. Preexisting materials owned by the Contractor and used in the materials created for the City shall remain the property of the Contractor. This includes preexisting examination questions and materials. __________