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001446 <br /> Board of Adjustment and the Southern Triangle Fire District. <br /> 3. Tax Collector's Report: The Tax Collector reported on the comparison <br /> of uncollected taxes of this year as compared to last year's figure for the same. <br /> Commissioner Willhoit moved, seconded by Commissioner Gustaveson, to have <br /> the Tax Lien Sale on June 7, 1982. Vote: Ayes, 5; noes, 0. <br /> (CLERK'S NOTE: What follows is a verbatim transcription of agenda item <br /> number 4, Mr. Charles Smith.) <br /> Chairman Whitted--Item 04, Mr. Charles Smith. I believe Mr. Smith is here. <br /> Mr. Smith: I have a matter that I would like to bring to the Board. I would <br /> like my partner to discuss. <br /> Mr. Mart Levi: Good Morning. I regret you don't have a lectern; it would be <br /> a little more comfOrtable-if we did. <br /> Commissioner Walker: You can have a seat right there. <br /> Mr. Levi: Thank you. <br /> Conrissioner Walker: Right here. <br /> Mr. Levi: Oh good. <br /> Chairman Whitted: Pull it around. . <br /> Mr. Levi: I wanted to talk to you relative to an incident that had occurred <br /> and hope that you might become informed relative to what it is and what <br /> impact it might tend to have on a program under your direction, ah, here <br /> in this cumnunity. Mr. Smith is a contractor who applied to participate <br /> in your Community Development Program under the direction of Mr. Kittrell. <br /> At the time he applied he was requested to go through the normal procedure <br /> that everyone else goes through and he did that. After having completed <br /> all the information and turned in the application, he was granted the <br /> right to participate in the CD Program. It is my understanding and pre- <br /> dicted on the letters I have here both fiuni BUD and fionithe references <br /> that your Conmunity Program sent out, that there uh these references were <br /> sufficient to justify participation. Mr. Smith proceeded to work in the <br /> program; submit his request for a bid, he did that, and was rewarded a <br /> bid for rehabilitating a home. That hone was completed; there was a 5 <br /> day over-run. There wasn't any cost over-run. But there was a 5 day <br /> over-run which is normal. You and I know that the Federal Government <br /> especially the Pentagon, has over-runs not only in terms of time, but <br /> in terms of hundreds of millions of dollars. You, as Commissioners, no <br />