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1 Mr. Brownell advised this work has already been done without any authorization, and the E -7 staff recommendation is that the Change Order request be disapproved. Mr. Keith P. Crighton, Director of the Bureau of Housing Program, E -7 Project, advised a section in our contract speci- fically stipulates that "prior to making any changes, the contractor is required to submit a written request as outlined in Paragraph 109B.." Mr. Mark S. Davis, Chief Inspector, E -7 Project, did not receive a request for the change order. The contractor did not comply with the provisions, and, consequently, is in violation of Section 1096 of the contract. Commissioner Wiggins said that Mr. Richard Madison should be aware of all these regulations and stipulations, as he was in- volved in these while he was in our employment prior. This looks like an education program and he agrees with the advice of our staff here that this Change Order should be denied and will so make the motion. The Chair said the motion is that this be denied. At this point, Mr. Richard A. Madison, President of Madison Builders, Inc., entered the meeting. The Chair advised him of the item being discussed and called on Mr. Madison. Commissioner Chenney's question had been, "What does Madison use for justification for the work on the roofing ?" Mr. Madison identified himself, and stated he is the owner of Madison Builders, Inc., and, "On this particular request, in the specifications, it states six squares of roofing to be in- stalled on a home at 610 East Ohio Street, and there is a total of 14 squares that goes on. Rather than incompletely roof the house after I hired a man in, I had him go in there and complete the job, as I think the precedence has been established that, in circumstances like this, that we just go on and do the work. It isn't that a precedence was established through the Agency, other than a job must be completed in accordance with the Code, and that is exactly what we had done on the installation of the roof- ing, and rather than half roof the house as it states, and in- stalling six squares, we went on and completely did the job." Commissioner Wiggins questioned the 14 squares just mentioned, and that the specifications only called for 6 squares; he com- pleted the job, and is asking for an additional two squares of shingles and three squares of rolled roofing - -for a total of 5 + 6 = 11- -what happened to the other three? The three squares of rolled roofing is there also. Mr. Madison said, "In the contract itself, if I can present the specifications to the contract, it states: '300 square foot of 90 lb. of rolled roofing and 6 squares, I guess, of the 230 gage.' Now, it could have been roughly interpreted that it needed 6 squares of roofing and total 300 of it being rolled