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that have been established by your persons who have responsiblity for overseeing. Is that what you mean? Commissioner Gustaveson: That's essentially correct. Mr. Levi: Fine. Now, ah I haven't made.light. First of all, one of the criteria for acceptance and this is written this is written in your HUD specifications here. I'll give it to you and you can read it. 9his is written in your HUD specifications. Is that the homeowner, the home- owner has to sign off at the coaPletion of the program and the homeowner has to be satisfied.and if the homeowner isn't satisfied there are legal ret ed-;es that the limner can undertake to express dissatisfaction and at the same time deny the contractor the right.tb be paid. I can't think of a better motivator. Deny the contractor the right to be paid. And if there is dissatisfaction an the part of the homeomer she'll get in touch with the Rehab Specialist; he'll get in touch with the check off list and let the contractor know what he has to do thing. Many of these jobs contractors have had to go back; I don't believe that.Hillsborough or Orange County _ . has a monopoly on anything good or anything bad. You are no different than any of the other hundred counties in terms of carrying out the mandate that has been given to you by HUD relative to rehabilitating houses_ I worked on these all over the State. All over. So I'm not malting light. I'm looking at what the homeowner signed and we were denied the right to see that seeing that I'm satisfied. So we had to get articulation f7ran the der, The Person occupying the house. We were denied that. Now I'm also saying that if the criteria of that were used for denial, was the real criteria tom,, partici- patien would have been n n-existent. So it isn't a question of what comes first, the chicken or the egg, none Owes because you had the data that you,are now using to deny participation before you granted acceptance. . Commissioner Whitted: Well, that's that's a point that's not quite clear, and You've made reference to that information we have in the letter from Durham came to this office; the Orange Carty on the 15th of April was dated the 10th of April. Now I believe that Mr. Smith already had a contract at that time. The memo from the Rehab Specialist that ah indicated the ah that the work that had been performed by.the Kidd Smith Company had been a.na'dequate, was dated May 22nd and then July of sametime the letter went to Mr. Smith denying ham participation in the program. So the the dates that I have tend to indicate that the letter