Alaska Administrative Code › Title 10 - Military and Veterans Affairs › Chapter 10 - Reimbursement of Veterans Service Organizations for Rehabilitation and Service Work › 10 AAC 10.050 - Selection procedures

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The director will appoint a grant application evaluation
				committee to evaluate applications for grants and to make recommendations as to
				which, if any, applicants should be awarded grants. The committee will be
				composed of a president and not less than five voting members. Members of the
				committee shall be state employees or public officials. The president may vote
				only to break a tie. The president and one-half or more of the voting members
				of the committee constitutes a quorum. A voting member of the committee is
				subject to challenge for cause for any reason that indicates that the member
				cannot participate in the evaluation fairly and impartially. Members of the
				committee must disclose any grounds that might be the basis for challenge for
				cause. A challenge may be made only by an organization competing for a grant. A
				challenge must be made before the committee convenes to evaluate the written
				proposals. A challenge to a member of the committee will be decided by the
				president of the committee. A challenge to the president of the committee will
				be decided by the director.
(b) The director will notify all organizations of the
				composition of the committee. The invitation to apply for a grant will state
				the selection criteria and the relative weight to be given by the committee to
				each selection criterion.
(c) The committee convenes at the call of the president. The
				president of the committee shall call each session to order formally and
				announce the time, date, and place. All sessions of the committee are open to
				the public and will be recorded on audio tape or video tape or by a qualified
				stenographer. Each member of the committee shall evaluate the written
				application of each competing organization, and shall grade each competing
				application according to the criteria and relative weight established in the
				invitation to apply for a grant. After grading the competing applications, each
				member of the committee shall individually rank the applications in descending
				order of quality, with the number "1" representing the highest ranking. The
				president shall determine the relative order of merit of each competing
				application by dividing the sum of the rankings given to the application by the
				members of the committee by the number of committee members. Each competing
				organization shall make an oral presentation to the committee. The time
				allotted for oral presentations may be determined by the president of the
				committee, but the time allotted shall be at least 20 minutes for each
				organization. The amount of time allotted for oral presentation shall be the
				same for all competing organizations. Members of the committee may make
				inquiries of the competing organizations at the conclusion of the oral
				presentation. The time used by the committee to make inquiries may not be
				counted against the time allotted for oral presentations. After each oral
				presentation, the committee shall grade the presentation according to the
				criteria and relative weight established by the director. After the last oral
				presentation, each member of the committee shall individually rank
				presentations in descending order of merit, with the number "1" representing
				the highest ranking. The president shall determine the relative order of merit
				of each oral presentation by dividing the sum of the rankings given by the
				members of the committee by the number of committee members. The president
				shall determine the final order of merit by adding the score for each
				organization's application with the score for the organization's oral
				presentation. The organization with the lowest sum will have the highest
				ranking. After the organizations have been ranked, the committee shall make
				recommendations for the amount of a grant to be awarded to each competing
				organization.
(d) Appeals from rankings established by the committee must be
				made to the director. Appeals must be in writing, be made not later than 10
				days after adjournment of the committee, state with particularity the basis for
				appeal and the relief requested, and be mailed by the appellant to all
				organizations competing for the grants. No issue that could have been but was
				not raised before convening the committee will be considered on appeal unless
				the appellant can demonstrate that it could not with reasonable diligence have
				discovered the facts upon which the appeal is based before convening of the
				committee.
Authority:
AS
				  26.10.040
AS
				  26.10.050