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E <br />pool or receiving an economic development loan or grant <br />from Orange County. A worker working for educational <br />purposes, such as an intern, coop student and any other <br />as determined by the County Manager, is not a worker as <br />defined in this ordinance. <br />Sec. -3. Administration of the Living wage. <br />(a) Each contractor shall pay its workers working on <br />County contracts a living wage during those hours that <br />the workers work on County service or construction <br />contracts, or in the case of a person receiving a loan <br />from the Orange County loan pool or an economic <br />development loan or grant from Orange County, for as <br />long as the loan is outstanding or for as long as the <br />period of economic development benefit as defined in <br />the economic development grant agreement. <br />(b) In order to accomplish the objectives of this <br />ordinance, the County narrows its pool of eligible <br />contractors, thus making some contractors not eligible <br />for consideration for such contracts. .Therefore when a <br />contractor has been awarded a County contract subject <br />to this ordinance or a loan from the Orange County loan <br />pool or an economic development loan or grant, subject <br />to this ordinance, fails to fulfill the requirements of <br />this ordinance, the County suffers damages. The <br />precise amount of those damages is difficult to <br />ascertain. Therefore all contracts falling under this <br />5 <br />