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6. NEW BU$INESS (.Cont'd Co missioner Wiggins added, "There is still going to be some lag when yoj consider that the inspections will have to be made following the ma ing of the inspection in the indications they are going to go ahead wi h something; then they have to advertise, bids will have to be to en, and the whole bid- taking process will take some period of time, an then the contractor has some period of time after the bids are aw rded before he has to start. I don't see how you are going to be ab e to get this thing down to much less than probably four or five mo the from the time of initial °inspection." Commissioner Robinson re lied, "I am a little bit familiar with the area you are talking about, and I say it is too much time. In other words, if we can get this time cut down, I don't think we are going to get `all' these change orders, and all of a sudden something sneaks up on °them again and they need some more money to justify their low price." Commissioner Cira agreed that co old be and he feels the same way. Mr. Lou Tutino, WNDU -TV Reporter, asked what the average time is between the inspection now and the actual work done? Mr.; Crighton advised the ap roximate time is about four months, before construction "Although the implication is that we are not working as quickly as we. should, that is not true. We have a number of requirements--not only set by th Redevelopment Commission, but by the Common Council, by our Commission Legal Counsel,: and also there are certain responsibilities to the con- tractor in trying to provide us with a performance bond - -any number of things that can drag these out. Ideally, we would like to have the work start the da3 after we do an inspection and get a cost, and get it estimated and titled an have copies of the contracts run. Our procedures have so many steps anc have so many people involved that it is hard for us to control all of it for time; and you also have to keep in mind that the people that are doing the Southeast.Project are also helping with the Homesteading, Section 31 Loans, the Non- Profit Group Rehabilitation, plus the other projects thE staff works on. I have personnel working three and four jobs, and it is hard to get a lot of this together. In the time period involved, we arE working the staff as we can - -as hard as we can - -and I think we have done a pretty good job this year." Mrs. Allen asked, "Inasmuch as they wait to gather up 17 houses under one contract, how long does it take the person to get the contract to complete the work on those 17 houses ?" The Chair advised, the staff is trying to get good, big competent contractors to do these jobs, and the onl way they will do it is if they can get a large enough contract so that they will attract the larger contractors. You can't get the large contractors to come in and bid on one particular house. Mr. Crighton added that on some of these jobs on the Housing Allowance contracts some of the houses only had approximately $150.00 work on them. On further questions regarding the time element by Mrs. Allen, Mr. Crighton advised, on the accumulation of the 17 inspections from the time we notified the community that the Housing Allowance Referral Program was available, it took us about 2 -1/2 months to accumulate enough inspections to put them under a contract. Obviously beginning a new program, people at first are skeptical about it, so now they are applying at a greater rate. Now we have considerable more people applying for the same program, but after the 2 -1/2 months, we assembled the contract, checked our con- tract to make sure everything was together, then advertised for bids, - 14 -