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South B�nd. Redevelopment Commission Special Meeting - April 20, 1978 6. NEWIBUSINESS,(Continued Mr. Harcus: HUD just keeps sending me different sections. I talked with Mr. Dew and said .. "Sir, you have 45 days from my entry of a request to respond, you are obliged to do so, please respond..in writing sir." He said: "I will endeavor to do so ".. So I am seeking a response from HUD, according to this 45 days requirement. Mr. Dew's other threat is, "when we come up and _audit you we are going to find you in non- compliance ". My resonse has been.. "Sir, you have audited us for the last three years, and you have been the Auditor and have not found us in non-compliance. I wish to be ad- vised in writing promptly so that I can go to my Redevelopment Commission, have this resolved, and expedite the contracts ". So I am waiting for a wage determination request to be answered by HUD. Mr. Robinson: I would like to make one other comment, if I may, and then I will give up in support of Mr. Harcus. At various times we have received BNA reports on scattered site housing, it could be one or two, or whatever, and in the past, Mr. Dew has even put his sig- nature on the thing, and it was prevailing rates of the area. Why he is taking a position now all of a sudden, I do not know, and I am with Mr. Harcus, if he sends a letter to us, that is one thing, until he (Mr. Dew) does, as far as I am concerned, we will stick with our decision rendered in the past, and they will pay the pre- vailing rate, or they won't do it. Mr. Harcus: I have even pointed out to Mr. Dew Sir that we have letters showing that in recent years they have ruled on a specific wage on grant rehabilitation action in the Model Cities Program, which is similar to ours. This morning he said, "I don't care about that, go see your attorneys and get their interpretation of that phrase ". Mr. Butler: We have made an interpretation of that in the past, as long ago as three or four years, and our interpretation has con- sistently been: 1. that we do have the latitude, it is a local option, and we have opted in favor of the prevailing wage rate; and secondly, with respect to the eight units in a program, as we are administering it now, we generally have eight or more individual residential units submitted or offered for bid, therefore, we auto- matically fall under the eight unit provision. Mr. Nimtz: Of course the other threat Kevin, is .. "we are going to find you in non - compliance when we come down to audit you ", that is the difficulty.