Council Member Restler Questions Disparities in Provider Scoring

So within each competition, there's evaluators that are are reading, and the evaluating team could be different across the board, right?

So it's all objective based on how the provider has demonstrated that they can provide these services.

And the other part too is that depending on how to say objective, but isn't that inherently subjective, right?

Like that is the precise definition of a subjective process is that it's different readers, and some readers are determining that this organization is excellent, and two blocks away where they have a different site, they're determining they're not.

That is, I mean, sorry to interrupt you, but no, no, no, it's fine.

And but I would also just add that it really depends on what other providers competed in that competition, right?

If if the pro if the program was if sorry, if the competition was extremely competitive, that's where you're gonna see the disparity in the world.

I can appreciate that that you could have different uh that at a given location, some other organization applied and is even more excellent than the group that's been there for 30 years, and they get selected because they did even better.

What I struggle to understand is how one organization can be reviewed as excellent at this location, but at these other locations in the neighborhood where they've been doing an excellent job for 30 years and always scored well on all of their DYCD contracts and all of their performance reviews, how they could be found to have such a different score based on who's reading it, it just that is what really pains me and is paining my community.

I I wanna I appreciate what you're saying, and I do think this is very nuanced.

And what I would say is I just I think there's assumption in some of the questions, right?

The assumption is that they did poorly in one or in one section and good in another section.

And the truth is that they could have done really well, but there was greater competition in one, and there are more providers that were invited or that came to that proposal.

So if you have 10 in one section and you have five in another, and you rank number seven, and there's six slots, so I wanna just offer that nuance, but I don't want to take away from what you spoke about earlier.

Um, so it's not like that they that they did poorly, right?

If we give that example, and then better in another one, it's really that they might have done really well in both, but there was greater competition in the world.