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JAN 28 1981 BOOK PA a' COMMISSIONER FLETCHER INQUIRED WHY WE SHOULD NOT ASSESS THE LIQUIDATED DAMAGES, AND COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK BELIEVED THE TIME OVER- RUN WAS DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES NOT THE FAULT OF THE CONTRACTOR AND THAT HE DID MAKE A GOOD FAITH EFFORT. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. IT WAS VOTED ON AND CARRIED 4-0, COMMISSIONER WODTKE BEING ABSENT FROM THE MEETING. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER WISHED TO QUALIFY HIS AYE. HE STATED THAT HE BELIEVED IN HONORING OUR COMMITMENT; ALTHOUGH, HE DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE OVERALL CONCEPT OF THE SOUTH COUNTY WATER SYSTEM. MR. TESSIER NEXT REPORTED THAT GERAGHTY & MILLER ARE ASKING FOR AN INCREASE IN THEIR CONTRACT AMOUNT BECAUSE OF AN INCREASE IN TASK 2, WHICH REPRESENTS ADDITIONAL TIME AND EXPENSE INCURRED IN SUPERVISING AND INSPECTING THE PROJECT WHICH HAD AN OVERRUN OF 16 DAYS. HE NOTED THAT ONE ADDITIONAL ITEM IS THE EXTENSIVE WATER QUALITY ANALYSIS NECESSARY. THE ONLY LABORATORY CAPABLE OF HANDLING SUCH AN EXTENSIVE ANALYSIS WAS LOCATED IN WEST PALM BEACH, AND THE SAMPLES HAD TO BE TAKEN THERE WITHIN 24 HOURS. HE STATED THAT GERAGHTY & MILLER DID ALL THE SAMPLE COLLECTING, ETC., IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE LABORATORY; THE LABORATORY WILL INVOICE GERAGHTY & MILLER $2,000, AND THEY IN TURN WILL ADD THIS TO THEIR CONTRACT, PLUS THEIR CHARGES. ENGINEER ROBBINS EXPLAINED THAT IT WAS THE ORIGINAL INTEN- TION OF THE .JOINT VENTURE TO TAKE CARE OF THE LAB WORK, BUT IT WORKED OUT BETTER FOR GERAGHTY & MILLER TO HANDLE THIS; S0, THERE NOW WILL BE NO INVOICE FROM THE .JOINT VENTURE RE THIS WATER ANALYSIS. DISCUSSION FOLLOWED ABOUT FMHA REQUIRING DIFFERENT CONTRACT FORMS WHICH MEANT ADDITIONAL WORK. ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK, SECONDED BY COMMIS- SIONR BIRD, COMMISSIONER WODTKE BEING,ABSENT FROM THE MEETING, THE BOARD APPROVED 4 - O AN INCREASE IN OUR CONTRACT WITH GERAGHTY & MILLER DATED DECEMBER 19, 1979, OR $11,966, MAKING A TOTAL CONTRACT PRICE OF $59,766. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER COMMENDED GERAGHTY & MILLER FOR A BEAUTIFUL PRESENTATION AND FOR THEIR THOROUGHNESS.