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MS. PROVALENKO: <br /> Well, I’m thinking say something that actually does the contract. <br />Let’s say they can’t fulfill their contract. Then what takes place? <br />MR. MASUDA: <br /> Say for example, take for example like a securities attorney that we <br />hire for bonding. Those people by their profession have to be bonded. So if there is <br />malpractice we can call on the bond. Does that answer your question? <br />MS. PROVALENKO: <br /> I’m not going in that direction. I’m talking some other type of <br />service that maybe the county pays for that service <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br /> Videotaping the council. <br />MS. PROVALENKO: <br /> Yeah, something like that. Or something that goes over the <br />$25,000 limit, that maybe this person all of a sudden doesn’t perform. And you’ve given <br />them notice to perform already. <br />MR. MASUDA: <br /> Like the videotaping, that would be a contract for services, not <br />professional service. But that kind of case, you may have a bonding. You can call for a <br />bond. <br />MS. PROVALENKO: <br /> So you can call for bond basically on anything over a certain <br />dollar amount? <br />MR. MASUDA: <br /> Yes. <br />MS. CRAWFORD: <br /> I think you could. But the other thing is that if you’re making those <br />kinds of requests, you’re also increasing the cost of the contract which is going to be <br />pushed to us. So I think in some cases like engineering and some of those contracting <br />to do design work or something like that. If they were to reach some point and there’s <br />progress along on that and not being paid unless they’re making progress and at some <br />point that’s not working out, those documents are all property of the county whatever’s <br />being generated up to that point. But it’s probably not the kind of thing you would have <br />been able to bond. I would say they could have got a performance bond for a cost to <br />complete the design, but it’s not something that we’ve normally done. <br />MS. PROVALENKO: <br /> Okay. <br />MR. MASUDA: <br /> The construction ones we do. But that’s going to be typically your <br />bigger dollar amount. <br />MS. CRAWFORD: <br /> On construction. <br />MS. YANAGIHARA: <br /> Well, anything over $25,000. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br /> So with construction, if you got a fixed amount of money for a <br />construction project, do the bidders all know what the budget is in advance? <br />MS. YANAGIHARA: <br /> There’s an estimated cost that we give to Notice to Bidders. <br />19 <br /> <br />