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Bend AHEC subgroup opts for a review-sheet approach, sets deadlines to revise applications
Summary
A City of Bend AHEC subgroup recommended using a non‑numeric review sheet (rather than a binding numeric scorecard) to evaluate public services and affordable housing applications and set deadlines: staff to deliver a clean application copy by Dec. 8; members to return review-criteria edits by Dec. 29; subgroup to meet Jan. 12 to finalize recommendations for AHEC.
Melissa Kimonya, the City of Bend affordable housing coordinator, convened the AHEC subgroup on Dec. 1, 2025, and led members through a debate over whether the committee’s evaluation tool should be a numeric scorecard or a non‑numeric review sheet to guide deliberations.
Members expressed competing priorities: several said numerical scores can aid transparency, while others worried that treating scores as determinative can disadvantage smaller nonprofits that lack professional grant writers. Mandy Dalrymple, an AHEC member, summarized the problem: “They didn’t understand why they were scored highly, but maybe they didn’t receive funding.”
After extended discussion, multiple subgroup members endorsed using the tool primarily as a review sheet…
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