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' 0044'x . doubt have had over-runs here in terms of building projects that con- tractors undertook for you. I know they have Las Angelos, Durham, all over the United States where you don't complete a project in the time you anticipate completing it. So the project went over 5 days; of course, there was a penalty for that. And I think most contracts there is a penalty for going over. Anyway, the job was completed; it was completed satisfactorily predicated on the on the admission of the person-for whom the job was being done. The property owner— And after this job was completed, Mr. Smith received a letter from the Director of this program, stating that he would not be eligible to participate in the program anymore. In other words, he was banned. There were two criteria he established for banning him frown the program; 1) Pre- dicated on a memo that was in a folder, not in his personnel folder, but another folder that Mr. Smith was refused when he asked for this Information under the proper Act; the second criterion was a letter that had been received from the City of Durham stating that Mr. Smith had been banned from program participation in Durham. Now follow this area - _very carefully. The letter that came to your director from Durham arrived and was requested prior to certification of Mr. Smith to partic- I-pate in the City Development Program. That letter was on file. You note the date. The date indicates that it was received before Mr. Smith certified to participate, if this was, if this had been one of the criteria for denial then why was he ever granted the right to par- ticipate initially? In as much as this data preceeded his participation. If the memo was which was written by your Rehab Specialist_ Was a criterion that had objective intent of bettering the performance of contractors it seems to me that Mr. Smith would have been made aware of this and that some steps would have been made to let him know,they were dissatisfied with something and or the basis of that corrective measures would have had to have been instituted or participation would have been denied in the future. This was not done. This memo was hidden and the assistant to your director had to go and find this memo and bring it out at the time we were in the office and say 'This is why I believe he was denied the right to participate.' That memo you should have which became a philosophy or an approach to prioritizing work at the time Mr. Smith