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5. OLD BUSINESS (Cont'd) Letter dated March 6, 1975, from Lawson Associates, was presented to the Commissioners. Mr. Don Bassett was not available for the HUD meeting and the consensus of the HUD representatives was that HUD probably will not approve the reduced Plaza Park Project recommended to the South Bend Redevelopment Commission by Lawson Associates and the tentative award to Arco Engineering Construction Company by the Commission on January 17, 1975. The alternates are: 1) Award the contract, as bid, to Arco with the City of South Bend adding to the presently available budget. This assumes that HUD would waive the fact that Arco was over the Engineer's estimate. 2) Re- duce the contract further and rebid it. HUD's position on the alternatives will be forthcoming from Miss Fredi Rolsky. The funds we have on hand for the Plaza Park is $278,361.50; if additional funds needed from Community Development- - $40,685.77- -could be made available, it would apparently be possible to contract now for Arco to build the basic park including all athe lighting for the bridge, path and all feature areas, and also build all the alternates as indi- cated in Lawson's letter of January 16, 1975. Total funds needed for Plaza Park to be constructed as originally ap- proved by the Commission is: $319,047.27. This budget would be very tight with no contingency. Any other course of action would probably result in a con- siderably less complete park that may not be finished this year. President Nimtz extended the Commission's thanks to Mr. Kagel and his associates for their concern involving the completion of the Plaza Park and the forthcoming Bicentennial activities, but there are things we can and cannot do. We have had meetings held on this with HUD officals in order to resolve it and we must comply with the HUD regulations to get this done. Mr. Kagel said he recognizes the bureaucracy of this program. This item is tabled until we receive the response from HUD for further action. c. Update on Bid Bond Discussion, E -7: Mr. C. Wayne Brownell gave an update of the Advisory Committee meeting on Feb- ruary 28, 1975, re Ms. Conchita M. Washington's request to waive bid bonds, in the Bureau of Housing Program, E -7 Project. Ms. Washington made a presentation to the Advisory Committee and the Committee decided to investigate the matter and will make their recommendation in their next meeting, which is a week from today. The request is to eliminate the bid bonds, not the performance bonds. The bid bonds were adopted for the protection of the program. BID BOND, BUREAU OF HOUSING, E -7