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poorly timed and poorly done. And ah I guess my concern is ah that at least this is part of the heart of the matter that ah this is certainly ah within their professional responsibility and administrative respon- sibility to make these judgements. That when they see ah poorly timed and ah poor workmanship in terms of the whole project that eh they want to assure that the money that is being spent in this program is spent as wisely as possible. And ah, ah I think that as I ah look through this material that gets to the heart of the whole whole matter. And and I gather that you kind of lightly went over this fact to bring in a lot of other things that seem not to be really addressing the core issue and I think that certainly there are many ah contracts they have to evaluate many projects they have to evaluate and ah ah ah I think that this is something that needs to be addressed... Mr. Levi (interrupting): very well. Allow re to address two things you've said. First of all the state that I've made light of . I don't under- stand that--I made light of. The other you stated that it was the respon- sibility of your staff to make judgments that this might have been a judgmental thing on my behalf. There's some conflict here. Judgment is is granted in one situation but judgment is denied in the other. I that's that's confusing to me. The other is that the money must be spent wisely. I doubt if you can find anyone, let me put it this way, I've been impressed with your presentations, I watch you on this Commission. I'm extremely ah pleased in fact I thought you were one of the profs at UNC. I'd like to know what you do because I'm impressed with your mannerism as a Com- missioner. Let re say this, and you will understand this I believe that money should be spent wisely and I believe that each time a hand is dipped into the Treasury of the U. S. a little democracy and accountability and responsiveness must of necessity cling to whatever the fingers take out. And I can't say it anymore, I can't say it any better when I say that I believe money should be spent wisely also. So there's no conflict between what you believe and think and what I believe and think. There's congruency. Now, I'm going to try to address making light and you correct me if I misunderstand what you have said. Making light I assume you mean that I have not given the proper attention and explanation to the performance of the contractor in lieu of his real performance and in lieu of the standards