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There being no others who wished to be heard in the five petition paving assessments, the Chairman declared the Public Hearing closed. Director Davis noted that in response to the considerable discussion about speeding up the petition paving program, a local contractor has indicated that he would be interested in participating in the program during slack periods. Director Davis felt that would be fine as long as the cost does not exceed the cost of doing it in-house. Perhaps we could go with a cost per foot -of $28-$30, which is about what our projects have been coming it at. Then, before the engineering is done, we could take a lot of projects to the Board at a Public Hearing and if those projects are approved, either go back and do the engineering in-house or perhaps send it out to local engineers who would like to do some of the engineering at a cost not to exceed our in=house costs. After the engineering is done, we could do the paving in-house or use, on a rotated basis, outside contractors who will be pre- qualified . Chairman Scurlock wanted to explore every possibility because the petition paving program is one of our winners and anything we can do to speed it up would be fine, and Commissioner Bird agreed, as long as the cost does not exceed the cost of doing it inhouse. Director Davis emphasized that the public hearing would have to be up front before the engineering, because if we did not do it that way, we could end up with projects that are not approved, and we would have lost that time and that resource. He advised that until we receive some required permitting, we are working with two crews. Commissioner Bird preferred to have the engineering done in-house, but if staff cannot handle it, then they cannot handle it. Chairman Scurlock felt the message we are sending is that we have an excellent program, and we don't want that to suffer. [AAR 2 4198% 74 BOOK 67 PAGE �1��