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South 6 nd Redevelopment Commission <br />Special Meeting - April 20, 1978 <br />6. NEWIBUSINESS (Cont'd <br />r. Nimtz: Well, that may be true, but he is taking the attitude... <br />r. Wiggins: I think that we should know before we award these <br />ontracts that HUD would be even willing to pay them at the wage <br />dale that was published in this. <br />Nimtz: This is the difficulty, as you really don't know what <br />Dew's stand is. <br />Ir. Butler: When the contract was let for bid, or offered for <br />ublic bidding, at that point, were we using a published wage <br />,ate and were the contractors who were bidding informed specifically <br />n the bid documents? That was a condition of their bid. <br />Ir. Harcus: Yes, and it happens to say in the regulations... "the <br />ew wage determination shall prevail except that if the bids have <br />een opened, such changes of modifications shall not be effective. <br />r. Butler: So, in other words, if they do provide us with a new <br />age scale, we can still except these bids as they were received, <br />owever, the enforcement of wage rates would be according to the <br />Id scale, not with the new scale. <br />r. Wiggins: Along with the approval of, or a determination of <br />hatever the current wage scales that they are willing to approve, <br />would like a reaffirmation or affirmation of the wage scales that <br />ere submitted to the contractors and were in the packages at the <br />ime that these were bid; because I don't want to see this come <br />round six months from now or a year from now, and they say... "hey <br />ou guys gave these guys the wrong amount of money, and we aren't <br />oing to pay you ", or we want our money back, I don't want to hear <br />ither one of those things. <br />r. Brownell: I am surprised, because we have always had to get <br />n updated wage scale. <br />r. Tony Scott: In the bid package, there is a statement that the <br />id would be awarded to the lowest and best, and also take into <br />oncern a minority (employees). What I really want to know is how <br />uch weight does a minority employee have, because in trying to <br />id the contract, and knowing that it has some weight, and knowing <br />he amount of skill among minority employees employed, it is pretty <br />hort. This means that the employees that you get, a big percentage <br />f them are (minimum wage for labor, I believe is $6.95), are not <br />oing to produce $6.95 worth of labor, so your man hours go up. <br />-12- <br />