... Civil Service Commission on her own volition, the remaining four members have decided to go ahead with commissioner Jack Ballard's homemade fire scenario test. Vammen resigned from the commission in protest during a meeting last week when members ...

... for the Conway Fire Department written by commissioner Jack Ballard. Ballard's test has divided opinion within the commission ... also said he appreciated "all the hard work I know Jack Ballard put into this." In other business, Glover said ...

... strongly opposes a scenario test written by commissioner Jack Ballard which, according to Vammen, would be subjectively ... consultant to make those determinations. "I agree that Jack (Ballard) is an expert in (fire fighting), but none of us ...

... which are intended to be relevant to firefighting in Conway. At the last meeting, held on Nov. 5, Commissioner Jack Ballard, a former certified test proctor with the Little Rock Fire Department, withdrew a test of his own design from consideration ...

... the two-year term, Deborah Wilson will take the four-year term, Fritzie Vammen will take the six-year term, Jack Ballard will serve an eight-year term and the 10-year term will go to Cornell Maltbia. Commission members also brought ...

... something?" "We managed to keep people qualified for promotion growing from 5,000 to 50,000," Commissioner Jack Ballard said. Commissioner Jerry Glover told the commission he did not believe the police department was as self-sufficient ...

... celebrating a birthday Thursday. "It's incredible." "Mr. Clements' game is so steady," added playing partner Jack Ballard, "that it can be 40 degrees or 100 degrees and it will be about the same." "He's a good golfer, period," said ...

... this structure. The new Civil Service Commission is five members - Jerry Glover, Deborah Wilson, Fritzie Vammen, Jack Ballard and Cornell Maltbia. Glover is acting chairman. City Attorney Mike Murphy gave some solid advice to the new Civil ...

... Monday they're not confident in solely using a set of scenario questions researched and penned by fellow commissioner Jack Ballard, a retired Pulaski County fireman who is considered by commissioners to be a subject matter expert. "I'm very conservative ...

... just don't know if it should be worth that much more than the oral and physical," Maltbia said. Commission member Jack Ballard said trying to assign points to a physical test would only open up Pandora's Box. The commission decided to table ...