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Buncombe County committee corrects scoring error, recommends 'scenario five' to spread early-learning grants
Summary
After staff corrected a scoring error that had lowered five applicants' averages, a Buncombe County funding committee voted to recommend "scenario five," which prioritizes broader partial awards and allocates an $83,000 remainder (including to a YWCA program); recommendations move to the county budget office.
A Buncombe County committee meeting to finalize early-learning grant recommendations on a special call corrected a material scoring error and voted to recommend "scenario five," a funding approach that spreads partial awards and directs an $83,000 remainder to priority applicants.
Rachel, a county staff member who presented the scoring data, told the committee it had discovered "a significant or material error in the scoring data" used at last week's meeting: five zero-score rows had not been removed from the averages, which "falsely lower[ed]" the scores of five applicants. She said staff updated the scoring sheet, kept the original tab for transparency, notified affected applicants, and confirmed the YWCA Empowerment Child Care request is $100,000 (correcting earlier inconsistent entries).
The corrected entries that moved into higher ranking included the Verner Center for Early Learning and the YWCA Empowerment…
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