Local 330, Akron Firefighters Ass'n v. Romanoski

It is not the function of this court to assess the wisdom of the program established by Fire Chief Romanoski in the summer of 1990, or to assay the propriety of a civil service system. Our sole task in this case is to determine whether the Akron City Charter authorizes a chief of the fire division to detail (temporarily assign) various classified employees to acting positions. Specifically in this case, the question is whether the Chief of the Akron Fire Division may detail an employee classified as a firefighter/medic to serve as an “acting lieutenant,” and an employee classified as a…