Columbus voters altering a century of anti-patronage protection Tuesday by changing competitive testing for job hires.
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With 100% of precincts reporting in unofficial results, the charter amendment was passing 74% to 26%. "We're grateful to the voters," Mayor Andrew J. Ginther said at a Democratic Party celebration in Franklinton, also thanking poll workers who worked a long day with strong turnout and long lines −which the lengthy Columbus ballot,"I think it was great turnout" that created the waits of up to a couple hours, Ginther said."I went and showed up at Winterset , waited an hour at 6 o'clock at night, I thought that was great.
Under a proposal currently before the Columbus Charter Review Commission submitted by Civil Service Commission Executive Director Amy DeLong, city voters were asked to approve changes to the 1914 charter to do away with giving preference in job hiring to the highest-scoring applicants., called"classified" employees, to be"competitive" hires, selected based on"the merit and fitness of applicants by competitive examinations," according to the city charter.
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