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Director Pinto explained that the way we do it outside. of the FmHA is that we negotiate what the cost of the project is going to be, and if they say the project is $250,000 for design, that includes all of the costs of the engineer going out and hiring whoever he has to hire to help him put his project together. In doing an FmHA project, they have additional services that has to be separated out, and they make us line item that. Chairman Scurlock stressed that regardless of FmHA. requirements, when the Board gives a lump sum addition, we want each one of those, as a change, to come back to the Commission so that we can keep track of it. Commissioner Eggert suggested that another way would be not to give them a lump sum addition and have them come back for each ,one, like Jim Davis comes back on Public Works matters. To her, it is just another form of cost accounting, and is not necessarily pertinent to any specific contract. She felt that the Board, in order to understand what is going on, needs to see some sort of a change order for their approval. Chairman Scurlock believed the feeling of the majority of the Board, and this goes for all the County's variety of contracts, is that the Board wants to see each of those items come before the Board. Director Pinto understood that, and did not have a problem in doing that. Commissioner Eggert recalled that she expressed her concerns about additional services at the last meeting, and felt more information would give protection on both sides. She emphasized that it is very hard to be asked to approve $150,000 for additional services, and then find something later in the same days' Agenda that says how that came to be. Theoretically, the Board could approve this item and not Item F in this Agenda. Commissioner Eggert felt that the Board could approve the $28,000 9 ,JAN 26 1988 9 BOOK 70 F,h,LF.667