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state personnel system embodies a number of policies. Id. The <br />basic purpose of the civil service laws is to secure efficient <br />public servants for positions in government. Id. "The Director, <br />who heads the department of personnel, a department within the <br />executive branch, administers the system, guided and constrained by <br />constitutional, statutory and regulatory provisions. Colo. Const. <br />art. XII, §14(4)." Id. at 993. <br />Pursuant to Rule 2 -1 -1 of the Colorado State Personnel Board <br />Rules, 4 CCR 801 -1 (1996) , the Director is also bound by the <br />procedures for the job evaluation system. Because this evaluation <br />depended exclusively upon salary surveys, the agency's own <br />procedures established for salary surveys should apply. <br />In Hughes v. Dept. of Higher Education, 934 P.2d 891 (Colo. <br />App. 1997), the Court held that the failure to gather, hear, and <br />consider evidence when required to by statute is arbitrary and <br />capricious. <br />The Director's review of the Department's methodology and <br />decision was cursory, at best. His decision is not supported by <br />any competent evidence, but, instead, by self - serving assertions <br />supporting the Department's position. Arbitrary and capricious <br />action is that which is unsupported by any competent evidence. <br />Board of County Commissioners v. Colorado Board of Assessment, 628 <br />2.2d 156, 158 (1981). <br />14 <br />