Appeal From a Ruling of the Civil Service Commission for New Orleans in the Matter of Bua v. Department of Police, Docket No. 6002

I .PATRICIA RIVET MURRAY, Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal the trial court’s affirming of a Civil Service Commission decision that awarded them supplemental pay but declined to order the appointing authority, the New Orleans Police Department [NOPD] to make certain promotions. The NOPD has answered the appeal seeking to have the award of supplemental pay reversed. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW

The six plaintiffs, namely Samuel Bua, Keith Ferguson, Joel Schmidt, Frank Va-carella, Steven Dunn, and Fenner Sedge-beer, are police sergeants who each served as the…