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7. PROGRESS REPORTS (Cont'd In oxdetr to ,intexest moxe contAactotu .. we aim ist att con - ttractotus in the ptepatat i,o n o4 thew, non -z peei. ie contAact documents. This is the only manner in which we ate allowed to hetp a eontAactox oveteome the "xed- tape." Un�oktunatety, we cute not attowed to use the "open -end time and matetuiaez" conttract 4oxm with public 4unds . It obviousty makes oux fob much tesz dii4.icatt to have move conttractotus woxking in the pxo j ect in that we ate able to get the wank done quickeA. we have made and we w,i 2t continue to make s,inceAe and .intews,ive e4jotuts to intexest mane contxac- totus in wonki.ng on then e contracts. 2. AnotheA question raised was concerned with the quat.ity o4 the/se contracts. The xetativeey new b,id /pe 4vwance bond tequiaement was .incoxpoxated into out con Aact conditionz at Mn. But2eA',s and Comm,i�ssion',s request, I betieve, apptox imatety a yect and a hat4 ago. The bene6 t o J this nequvrement is that it "weeded out" the untret.iabte eontractotus who were 4.inaneia t y unabte to obtain bonding ox submit a bond check. The only drawback was that thtis xequ ument dxasticaZZy tceduced the number o4 biddeus Jot the rehabii ation work. 3. Commizzionet Robinson asked a numbetc o4 impoxtant questiov.6 re- t Ling to qua2i.ty o4 the Buteau',s .inspections and spec 4ications. It is an obviousty di44icu2t situation cons.ideAing the numerous change oxdexs that tune presented 4ox action by the Commission. Many o4 the .inspections were done wet over a year ago by a di44etent sta44 undeA di44erent management. when the ptco j eet came undeA my 1uki6dicti,on, I did not order a totat pro j ect xe- in,speetion because o4 out seAiou3 zhatrtage o4 manpower and time. At that time, we had onty tce- apptoptiation 4otr six months and our money had to be a toeated within that six-month pelui.od, and we only had two .inspeetoxs, Aso it was impozs.ibte 4ox us to xe- ,ins peet evexyth.ing . As 4ax as the ,inspections that we ate doing at the ptce�sent time undeA the Community Devetopment Pxo- gxam, we ate attempting to maintain quality and quantity .6 imut- taneou,sty. Ideatty, the pa4eet ,inspecti.on /,spec 4icati.on .us pnepcted by an eng.i.neet and an architect. Atso, a good deaf o6 time shoutd be attotted 4otc the ptepaxation of each speei4.iea- tion to insure its accuracy. Un�otrtunatety , we ate undetusta� ed by appxoximate2y 40% and we are expected to accomptis h in 12 months what pxev,i.ous pxogxams were expected to comptete in three years. Out inspectou axe geneAaUy petusons with construction baekgtround who cure 4ami2tiar with the BOCA "One and Two - Family awett.ing" Code. The main pxobtem with conttraet spec 4icat%on6 in the past was that no two contAactotus woutd have the same ,intenptretation o4 the te- commended work. Pxesentty, we attempt uni4oxmity o4 .5pec%4.ieation tetm.inotogy in oxdex that each conttactot w.it2 have the same .in- texptetation as the otheu. Because the speci4ications o�4er tie of no. 4reedom 4ox the conttractor to account box the ,indiv,idua2 .idio s ynenac e,s o4 each house, he must now z ubm.it requests 4or change - 14 -