SEBRING, Ohio - Voters in Sebring will decide whether to get rid of a decades old testing system for essential personnel.

Years ago, the village established a Civil Service Commission to give out tests to candidates for patrolmen and dispatcher positions. The candidates must score 70% or hire to be considered but recently with so many scoring lower it's now turning too many away.

“It’s a difficult test. It's a multi-tasking test,” Jo Ann Jones, the Chair of the Civil Service Commission said. “Some people aren't good test takers. I taught school for 37 years and they are not.”

Jones chairs the commission that gives the test and supports it being eliminated. She said if it's removed the village would have a different committee made up of the Mayor, Village Manager, Police Chief and one c

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