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5. OLDIBUSINESS. Continued C. Q Mr. Brownell said that the Assistant Controller for the City de- cided they would make the check payable to the Revolving Fund. We received the check which was made payable to our Revolving Fund and we in turn have put it in to the account so we can pay this claim. The Chair asked if there would be any question then about HUD giving us credit for this payment.... and Mr. Brownell stated that as far as he knows, there would be no question. It simply means that we will have to put in a requisition for this amount for relocation. We will not get any money from them except to be paid on the notes. Elimination of Labor Standards Provision, Rehab contracts, Mr. Brownell stated this item was tabled in two previous meetings and the Chair inquired of Mr. Crighton if he wished to make a statement. Mr. Crighton then recalled what was discussed on May 6 - "I had asked that the Commission consider eliminating the labor standards provisions presently used in our contracts for the reason of saving money on our continually dwindling Community Development funds and also to reduce the amount of paper work that our contractors are presently completing every week and every month. At that time I believe it was Commissioner Wiggins asked me to further investigate the matter and discuss it further with the contractors and for the past month that is about all I have been doing. After much discussion, I suppose there are only two major proposals or requests that the majority of contr actors would like to see - they feel that under our new bidding procedure, that the Commission has approved, the maintenance of the Labor Standards Provisions for the skilled trades will not be a detriment to their production. However, they do feel that the common laborer rate of $7.40 an hour is rather high for someone who is going to be primarily driving a truck or picking-up materials, hauling equipment or lumber around the job. This seemed to be their central focus of objection is to our present labor standards and they would like to see us reduce that rate. I would propose a rate of no less than $5.40 an hour for common laborers. Secondarily, the contractors' objection centered primarily on the paper work required for the labor standards provisions compliance -that they have to fill out on a monthly and weekly basis and submit to Frank Alford, the City's EEO Compliance Officer. I have discussed this second point with Mr. Alford and he and I have mutually agreed to sit down and streamline the EEO compliance, Parts I and II, relating to wage reporting within the next month if the Commission approves this request. I guess what T am asking this time is for two basic changes, (1) to reduce the Common Laborer rate to $5.40 an hour and (2) to allow us to streamline the Labor Standards reporting system presently in use." r. Brownell asked if they wouldn't have to do the work on the stream- ining and then submit it since at the present time, we have no dea how you are going to change it.. - 4 -