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L.;-!0.045 3 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. This is written in your HUD specifications. Is that the homeowner, the home- owner has to sign off at the completion of the program and the homeowner - has to be satisfied and if the homeowner isn't satisfied there are legal remedies that the homeowner can undertake to express dissatisfaction and at the same time deny the contractor the right to be paid. I can't think of a better motivator. Deny the contractor the right to be paid. And if there is dissatisfaction on the part of the homeowner 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 making 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 from the homeowner. 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 then, partici- pation would have been non-existent. So it isn't a question of what comes first, the chicken or the egg, none comes because you had the data that you are now using to deny participation before you granted acceptance. Commissioner Rutted: 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 frown Durham came to this office; the Orange County 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 fium the Rehab Specialist that ah indicated the ah that the work that had been performed by the Kidd Smith Company had been inadequate, was dated May 22nd and then July of sometime the letter went to Mr. Smith denying him participation in the program. So the the dates that I have tend to indicate that the letter