Capital committee simplifies project-prioritization rubric, drops preweighting step

The committee overseeing Nantucket's capital project prioritization agreed to simplify its scoring rubric, remove a preweighting column and ask members to rate each criterion on the same scale, members said during a virtual meeting.

The change came after debate over wording and whether some line items produced binary answers rather than gradated scores. Committee member John said, "If it's imminent, it it's gonna be done," explaining why he had changed the label from "imminent issue" to "serious issue." The group also approved rewording items such as "employee count" to "staff count" and replacing the single word "redundancy" with "create redundancy/overlap" to clarify intent.

Committee members said the previous process — which asked each member to distribute percentage weights across categories before scoring items — had confused newer participants and sometimes skewed results. "I like the simplicity," Committee member Howard said, describing the proposed change to…