Board lowers minimum RFA eligibility score from 75 to 70

Sep 14, 2026

Staff recommended, and the board approved, changing the minimum application score required to advance in the RFA process from 75 points to 70 points based on historical scoring data; the board voted to accept amended guideline language.

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Staff presented operational testing showing the previously adopted minimum score of 75 did not align with historical scoring and recommended lowering the threshold to 70 so eligible applications would not be blocked by a higher minimum. Rebecca Royce explained staff reviewed several years of past scores and found no applications had advanced with scores below 70.

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