Choosing the Six Remaining ICRC Commissioners (Continued)

At the June 7 meeting of the ICRC, the commissioners tentatively selected the student for the commission and an Asian American for the commission. The student is Ryan Rafols, and the Asian American is Catherine Cocco. The commissioners will select the remaining four commission members on Thursday, June 13^th, if there is a consensus among the commission members. If there is no consensus, the commission members considered asking several applicants to make presentations to the commission to assist in the selection process.

In establishing the criteria for selecting the remaining commission members, the eight commission members made geography the first priority, followed by ethnicity, then gender, and finally age. Since Rafols and Cocco reside in TCCC precinct three, the remaining commissioners will come from TCCC precinct one (1 commissioner), precinct 2 (2 commissioners), and precinct 3 (1 commissioner). The consensus was that the TCCC precinct 3 commissioner should reside in southwest Austin since the other two TCCC precinct 3 choices reside either in central Austin (Ryan Rafols) or in northwest Austin (Catherine Cocco).

Given the selection of Rafols and Cocco, what criteria should guide the remaining choices?

TCCC Precinct	Race/Ethnicity	Gender
1: One member	Anglo: 3 members	Female: 1 member
2: Two members	African American: 1 member	Male: 3 members
3: One member	Asian American: 0 members
4: No members	Hispanic: 0 members

The commission members consider all members of the pool qualified to serve on the commission and seem neither to be considering how the ARP members rated the applicants nor to have developed a uniform scoring system for ranking the applicants. Each member seems to be employing whatever criteria he or she deems appropriate to select the remaining commission members.

So here are the remaining qualified candidates (with TCCC precinct 4 and Hispanic applicants removed), sorted by TCCC Precinct, then race, then gender:

Precinct 1:

Name	Rating	Race/Ethnicity	Gender	Zip Code
Harcrow, Kami Rene	9	Anglo	Female	78752
Tyler, Jessica Leigh	9	Anglo	Female	78752
Mahoney, Tim Raymond	9	Anglo	Male	78723
Martin, Nicholas Louis	9	Anglo	Male	78754
Ali, Thressa Lee	9	African American	Female	78702
Lee, Nicole Michelle	5	African American	Female	78752
Bradford, Nathaniel	9	African American	Male	78723
VanDyke, Thomas Clifton Sr.	9	African American	Male	78702
Johnson, Henry W.	5	African American	Male	78723

Precinct 2:

Name	Rating	Race/Ethnicity	Gender	Zip Code
Brisbin, Shelly D.	9	Anglo	Female	78705
Dickens, Linda	9	Anglo	Female	78703
Risovi, Janet Lea	9	Anglo	Female	78751
Everton, Araminta L.	8	Anglo	Female	78731
Frey, Peg Frederick (Seaufy)	8	Anglo	Female	78757
Harrow, Harriett	8	Anglo	Female	78759
Art, David T.	9	Anglo	Male	78703
Hignight, Heath Kerr	9	Anglo	Male	78756
Christianson, James (Jim)	8	Anglo	Male	78703
Costello, T.J.	8	Anglo	Male	78727
Newman, Holly S.	8	African American	Female	78731

Precinct 3:

Name	Rating	Race/Ethnicity	Gender	Zip Code
Gibbs, Lucy Leaton	9	Anglo	Female	78736
Gray, Melissa Rebecca	9	Anglo	Female	78759
Kurth, Lynn LaRue	9	Anglo	Female	78735
Johnson, Helen Benner	8	Anglo	Female	78749
Haag, Stefan David	9	Anglo	Male	78749
Zigrossi, Sam Joe	9	Anglo	Male	78750
Haley, Benjamin Paschal	8	Anglo	Male	78726
Stansberry, Paul K.	8	Anglo	Male	78739
Lawson, Janet Denise	9	African American	Female	78739
Rhedin, Judith A.	8	African American	Female	78759
Noches, Ramon Crespin	9	African American	Male	78739