Diversity

[Jim D]

You appear to have a system that would work to prevent diversity; three of your criteria - years of experience, peer rating and cooperation (whatever that is), would tend to give higher ratings to the good ole boys who have been around for ever. Minorities tend to be newer to the mix. Given this rating system, it would be easy for all the finals to assigned to crews comprised of Billy Bob and Jimmie Bob and Larry Bob and the like.

Someone in your state is smart enough to see that the system that has been in place for 60 years and "has never caused a problem" is, in fact, causing problems. Their response is to over-ride the system rather than fixing it, which is causing some hard feeling. I think they'd be better off throwing out your old rating system and making a new one.