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final payment has not been made, and the county still has in <br />excess of $190,000 of the contractor's money. <br />Commissioner Bird did not question that Frizzell has worked <br />in the County's behalf and believed the culprit here is the <br />contractor, not the County or the architect, but he hoped we have <br />some ability to recover this $20,000 from the contractor as he <br />would hate to see the County have to swallow the excess charges. <br />Mr. Disney pointed out that the County has $250 a day in <br />liquidated damages that is coming back to them, and those <br />liquidated damages are in excess of $65,000 at this point. <br />Administrator Balczun explained, for purposes of the record, <br />that when he was talking about final payment, he was talking <br />about this issue to the architects. His comments were not <br />addressed to the general contractor or any 'other contractor. <br />Commissioner Eggert asked if this is the architect's final <br />request for payment, and Mr. Disney confirmed that it is. <br />Chairman Scurlock had another question relating to this <br />area. He believed three or four weeks ago, the Board directed <br />staff to look into the possibility of contracting with a firm to <br />handle our capital projects in the future, and he wished to know <br />what the status of that is. <br />The Administrator noted that final arrangements have not <br />been made for Frizzell to make a presentation to the Board with <br />respect to proceeding to the next phase of the jail project. <br />Once the Board authorizes that, his thinking is that the Jail <br />Committee would meet and make a recommendation to the Board. <br />Commissioner Eggert believed the Board was not talking just <br />about the jail project, but the fact that we have libraries, <br />courtrooms, etc. coming up, and she felt we requested that staff <br />look into getting either a person or a company to be a project <br />manager for all such projects. <br />Chairman Scurlock agreed that this was not specific just to <br />the jail since we have 30-40 million dollars worth of capital <br />projects we will be doing in the near future, and he felt what <br />MAR 2 9 1988 <br />35 <br />BOOK 1 . FaU 392 <br />