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6. NEW BUSINESS (Cont'd Pertaining to the above change orders, Mrs. Janet S. Allen raised the following questions: "How come none of these are discovered before these bids are taken for these rehabilitation contracts, and all of these changes are being made after the bids are re- ceived and the contracts awarded? I wonder why they have to come back and amend these by additional change orders. The inspectors and staff should realize some of the existing conditions, and what kind of plumbers do you hire that you end up with leaky pipes? To the plumbing leak, Mr. Mark Davis responded that it was in the drain line. That it was inside the wall and they had to actually open up the wall to find it. It was the plumbing there. They check the work out and test it if they can. The asphalt shingles nailed to the facia are certainly visible and Mrs. Allen said the inspectors should certainly be able to see those. Mr. Keith P. Crighton, Director, Bureau of Housing, E -7 Program, advised, "As far as the shingles are concerned on this, specifically on the facia, our inspectors do not actually get a ladder and get up on the roof. A lot of times, the condi- tion of the roof cannot be seen until after the roofer starts the job." Commissioner Cira asked, "How about the windows then ?" Mr. Crighton said these inspections were done last last year, and our staff right now is trying to answer now for those inspections. Mr. Mark Davis added that he has been working with the staff and in training them to have them put everything down that is most important, and that they have been making progress in later in- spections. "We are getting better inspections and higher quality, and I don't think we will have these types of problems in the future." 7. PROGRESS REPORTS a. River Bend Plaza Activities, R -66: President Nimtz welcomed Mr. ACTIVITIES Louis N. Wilcox, Director, River Bend Plaza, and asked Mr. Wilcox REPORT, how many more days he had with us, and that we shall miss his RIVER BEND smiling face. Mr. Wilcox said that it is about 26 days. PLAZA, R -66 A copy of the River Bend Plaza activities schedule was in all the packets through the month of August. In explanation of the Coca Cola Cannon, scheduled for August 27th, from 11:00 to 5:00 p.m., in the 100 block of South Michigan Street, Mr. Wilcox ex- plained this is sort of a carnival coming to town and that instead of firing a man out of a conventional cannon, the Coca Cola Company has come up with a 'great big coke bottle' in lieu of the conventional cannon. They will not fire a man out of the cannon. The firm will be serving free coke. - 7 -