The OST Office shall appoint are view panel or multiple review panels to evaluate the applications received in response to an RFA in an impartial manner based on the scoring criteria set forth in the RFA.
Members of a review panel may be District government employees or members of the public; provided that no more than half of a review panel's members may be employees or contractors of the OST Office or members of the Commission on Out of School Time Grants and Youth Outcomes ("OST Commission").
A member of the public must apply to, and be accepted by, the OST Office in order to serve as a member of a review panel. A member of the public who applies to serve as a member of a review panel must have at least two (2) years of experience with, and knowledge of, youth development and OST programming and must meet any other qualification standards of the OST Office in order to be accepted as a member of a review panel by the OST Office.
All reviewers shall be screened for conflicts of interest and each reviewer must affirm his or her ability to be impartial before serving as a member of a review panel.
Each reviewer shall receive training on how to review applications. The training shall be provided by the OST Office or an individual or entity designated by the OST Office.
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 1, r. 1-4002