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South Bend edevelopment Commission Regular Mee ing - February 20, 1981 6. NEW BUSINESS c. continued... Mr. Cira: The other thing about it, Kathy, is that wit all of these contractors you have to abide by rul s and regulations or you can't stay on the job. Mrs.1 Baumgartner: Certainly. Mr. Cira: You know as well as I know that some of youy people can suggest, "why don't.you call John Doe or Bill Smith up, he does good work for us," and I don't think that is fair. You are going to haVE contractors who are just going to drop out of the picture saying, "I don't have a change to bid ". I don't think that is a fair way of doing business. Mr. McMahon: I can understand perhaps how it got to the point where we don't take bids when it is a loan and it is basically the homeowner's money. On the other hand, I understand why we provide then with a list and they would pick and we re- qui e them to get at least two bids. Would there be any problem, so that someone like Mr. Brown who might not be getting too many calls, could you provide the contractors with a list of those peo le who are receiving loans so that they know who is going to be getting the money and they can makE a phone call to them and say, "we are avail- ablE to bid that work and have done work before "? Mrs. Baumgartner: Certainly, there would be no pro lem with that. And I would say further that if Mr. Brown had had a problem with this, I would havE been more than happy to discuss this before it ad gotten to this point. But no such objection has been raised to me in my office to this point and this is the first time I am hearing something to this effect. Mr. Cira: This is not a fair way of doing this. The job should be bid on with whatever contractor who would like to bid on this job. Mr. McMahon: I wouldn't say the word bid, but they sho ld have the opportunity to know who got a loan and who they can call to submit a quotation. Mr. Kira: This is very demoralizing for an inde- pendent contractor. 16