Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
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that would evaluate sites and compare them against<br />
one another and decide which one is best would use a<br />
scoring tool, I call it a scoring tool that was<br />
developed 20 some years ago. We've totally revamped<br />
that tool this past year and added in a lot <strong>of</strong><br />
elements that are say more important to us now than<br />
they were 20 years ago, like build to lease, not<br />
build to lease, ready to build attributes,<br />
environmental issues, things like that,<br />
purchasability.<br />
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You know it used to be when I first started<br />
working here 15 years ago a site would be picked and<br />
then they would say now go buy it. Well, if you<br />
can't buy it, you just picked the wrong site. So<br />
you know, we folded things like that into the<br />
process <strong>of</strong> selecting which is the best site to buy<br />
because again, if you can't buy it, it doesn't<br />
matter how well it's located or anything else.<br />
But anyway, so this tool has eight<br />
categories about almost 350 line items and they're<br />
all positive attributes. And it's a real simple<br />
tool to use. People just go down the list and check<br />
<strong>of</strong>f which ones are there versus not there. And it's<br />
turned out to be a very useful tool for the team to<br />
help them go through their process <strong>of</strong> picking out a<br />
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