After all preliminary prospectuses are received, the county road administration board will schedule and conduct an on-site field review of each project. During the field review, conducted jointly with the county engineer or his/her designee (unless waived by the county engineer), the assigned county road administration board staff person will review the overall project scope with the county representative and, using that region's priority rating process, determine the rating score of all priority elements which are based on a visual examination. To ensure both uniformity and professional judgment in the visual ratings, the assigned county road administration board staff person shall be a licensed professional civil engineer in the state of Washington, and the same person shall review and rate all projects within a region. All field reviews will be completed, and the visual rating scores returned to each submitting county, by July 1st of each even-numbered year prior to a funding period.