Committee flags scoring artifact in capital prioritization tool, seeks consistent approach before final rankings
Members found that the prioritization tool gives new projects a '0' on a question about prior-year funds while recurring projects can score up to '100', skewing medians and relative rankings; staff and committee leaders discussed options to reconcile scores before finalizing recommendations.
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Committee member Brian (and other members) flagged an inconsistency in the capital-prioritization worksheet (referred to as 'Rory' rankings) that treats projects with no prior fiscal-year funds as a zero on one criterion while awarding recurring projects up to 100 percent. "So if it's new, you keep it as 0. And then if it had money and had been spent, then we put a 100%," a committee member said while describing the current scoring approach.
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