Applicant Review Panel Friday, March 15, 2013 6pm Town Lake Center Assembly Room (1st floor) 721 Barton Springs Road, Austin, TX 78701 CALL TO ORDER 1. CITIZEN COMMUNCIATION: GENERAL (3 minutes to speak) 2. NEW BUSINESS The ARP may discuss and take action on the following agenda items A. Discuss approach to assessing applications, application merits, and work plan B. Housekeeping matters, including resources on the City of Austin website, ARP member contact information, staff support, and scheduling future meetings ADJOURNMENT The City of Austin is committed to compliance with the American with Disabilities Act. Reasonable modifications and equal access to communications will be provided upon request. Meeting locations are planned with wheelchair access. If requiring Sign Language Interpreters or alternative formats, please give notice at least 4 days before the meeting date. Please call Jawana Gutierrez at 512-322-6596 for additional information. TTY users route through Relay Texas at 711. Questions regarding the Applicant Review Panel may be directed to Jawana Gutierrez at 512-322-6596.
Page | 1 Applicant Review Panel Meeting Minutes Friday, March 15, 2013 The Applicant Review Panel convened in a regularly called meeting on Friday, March 15, 2013 2012, at 6:00 p.m. at Town Lake Center, Assembly Room (1st Floor), 721 Barton Springs Road, Austin, Texas 78701 Meeting was called to order at 6:02 pm by Jawana JJ Gutierrez, ARP staff liaison. COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Michelle DeFrance Caroline Limaye 1. CITIZEN COMMUNCIATION: Frances McIntyre, Edwin English, Roger Burgett, Brad Parsons, Linda Curtis, and Steve Bickerstaff 2. NEW BUSINESS The ARP may discuss and take action on the following agenda items: A. Discuss approach to assessing applications, application merits, and work plan The Panel members reviewed a spreadsheet with the summarized application data provided by the Office of the City Auditor. As the Panel discussed the assessment approach several questions were raised, such as: Should we interview applicants? Can Panel members speak with the applicants? What happens if a panel member knows an applicant personally? The Panel agreed it would be best to contact City of Austin’s Legal department for answers to those specific questions. After more discussion the Panel agreed to perform a test run of the application screening process using the following parameters: Assess a subset of the applications, the 98 applications in Precinct 1 Score each assessment category either 1-No, 2-Maybe, or 3-Yes Provide results to staff liaison for analysis and review during next meeting The Panel envisioned that it would require multiple rounds of scoring to eventually result in 13-17 applications from each Precinct. The Panel agreed to separate the student applicants from the non-student applicants due to possible differences in assessment criteria. The Panel agreed to have the screening and scoring process finalized at the next meeting. Page | 2 B. Housekeeping matters, including resources on the City of Austin’s website, ARP member contact information, staff support, and scheduling future meetings It was decided that the next meeting will be at 6 pm on Friday, March 22nd at the City Hall Boards and Commission Room, Room 1101. Future meetings will not be discussed and finalized until the third panel member is available for discussion. Staff Liaison Gutierrez adjourned the meeting at 7:05 pm without objection.
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