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Sarasota commissioners back removing financial scoring, move toward multi‑year human‑services contracts
Summary
At a May 23 workshop in Venice, Sarasota County commissioners agreed to drop the financial scoring component from contracted human‑services applications, favor using audited financials and program budgets for advisory review, and signaled support for multi‑year (primarily three‑year) contracts with annual outcome reviews.
Sarasota County commissioners signaled broad support May 23 to remove the financial scoring component from the county's contracted human‑services application and to pursue longer contract terms for funded providers.
Chuck Henry, director of health and human services, told the Board of County Commissioners the staff recommendation is to "retain the application and application rating criteria, but without the financial scoring," and to provide program budgets and audited financial statements to advisory councils as supplemental information.
The recommendation comes after applicants and advisory council members raised concerns about the way financial information was weighted and scored. "There was a lack of consistency and objectivity," said Jennifer Fagenbaum of Family Promise, who testified that scoring without explanatory comments left applicants uncertain how to improve. Peter Casamento, another public commenter, argued the process "puts the larger agencies ahead" and warned smaller organizations are…
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