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6. NEWIBUSINESS (Cont'd am talking about. This is from,the.pool;.they'are falling off, and, consequently, in conversation with'Mr. Brownell, and I'have been on this thing too; he was informed that the Epoxy that they used has to be adjusted. This is all well and good; but you don't take any- thing like this on the mechanical'side of it and'have_ people in your employ: beat on i,t and knock it off either. Now receiving these com- ments, I•came down early one morning and ,I took one'of these stones home- =and Mrs. Janet Al °ten 'has one also. I-took the thing home, and there isn't.a lady in this community that can't clean the pools, and, do you know what I used ?` I used 'Sno= Bowl''`and in :three seconds the stone was clean. There isn't a lady who maintains her -own house- hold who can't clean these pools. Now here we are ... with a pool that isn't clean: We've got $6,000 plus expenditures and a steam cleaner, and the pools are still not clean. The pool was running out there and there are sediments on the bottom of the pool; it was still there when the pool was turned on. "I spoke to Mr. Colip; I spoke to everybody in the city that had something to do with the pools, including Mr. Farrand. Now, I am told that the area of controversy is just about over, that the pools are going to be running. I am glad to hear this. But, yet the cleaning, as Mr. Colip states, is the basic fundamental. The lights that are now in the pool do not have the: humus brilliance. The lighting effect on Pool E - -by Jefferson Boulevard -=the lighting is so corroded with the same items as the stone you see here (displaying one of the stones from the pool), that we have all of this expertise in this community (and I think we ought to have the ladies of this community come down and clean the pools. Now if any one of these pools would sit in any of the ladies' living rooms, I am sure they would be clean, and not at a cost that we are paying). But here, we have all the expertise of engineers, employees, and everything else, and we can't get the 'damn job' done. Now it is just that simple:" "From the time of having a motor to be replaced,to the time of $2,600.00, is a lot of time, and it's a LOT OF MONEY! Now, who is oing to pay this $2,600.00; is this going to be the warranty of the 8,000 that is still there on the pool; or is it something that is going to come out of the Redevelopment Commission's money NOW, or is it from the Board of Public Works and Safety? This is the only question I stand to raise!" President Nimtz asked Commission Legal Counsel what the status of this contract is and what is holding up the completion? Mr. Butler said, "The contract has never been certified as completed by this Commission. We still have a responsibility as the owner under the contract provisions. We do have a maintenance bond, and, of course, a contractual guarantee, because a maintenance bond is designated to cover it. The question, as I understand it, is: Whose responsibility was,., what was the cause of the problem whose responsibility was that cause? As I undertood Bill S1abaugh- -Bill, when you were explaining ity I believe you are saying that it was not the contractor's fault. 'Th1s occurred after. Is this our fault - -I say 'ours' collectively--the Engineering Department; Redevelopment Department ?" - 25 -