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Mr. Harrison Youngblood, P.E (Utilities Engineer for Indian River County) 06 -March -2024 Indian River County 180027 th Street (Building "B") Vero Beach, Florida 32960 Subject: Indian River Contract No. 2021026 Delays Beyond the Contractors Control. Dear Mr. Youngblood, TLC Diversified is in receipt of your letter dated 01 -March -2024 requesting TLC to provide an updated Finishing Schedule with a written request for an extension of Contract time to include valid reasons for an extension. The letter also references the liquidated damages clause in the contract. Please note that TLC is relying on these same documents under General Conditions section 12.03 A and 12.03 C dealing with Delays beyond the control of the Contractor. A portion of this was modified under the Supplemental General Conditions where 12.03 A was removed and replaced with modified verbiage. Delays beyond the Contractors control are delineated in this section and state," Where Contractor is delayed or prevented from completing any part of the Work within the Contract Times due to delay beyond the control of the Contractor, the Contract Times (or Milestones) will be extended" The Contractor is tasked with providing evidence that the delay(s) impacted the critical path and prove that delays were caused by various items out of his control including acts of God and Owner related delays. TLC and our subcontractors and suppliers have experienced multiple and ongoing delays throughout this project which have affected our anticipated completion date. The entire construction industry is experiencing this issue on projects of long durations that overlapped with the Worldwide pandemic. We continue to ask the Owner for assistance in limiting these delays as this project is hypersensitive to any delays, critical shutdown requests and out of sequence work. TLC has commented throughout this project that we scheduled the project correctly but in reality, were forced to build it backwards and out of sequence because of the disastrous and ongoing delays caused by the pandemic. TLC issued a written (friendly Notice) to the Engineer and Owner on 29 -December -2021. We provided examples of (pricing escalations / delivery delays / labor shortages) and expressed that the project would run over. The Notice informed all parties not of one delay but instead a catastrophic set of (plural) delays in every part of the project. TLC requested help from the Owner and Engineer to deal with these issues and explained how TLC was self -performing many parts of the work in order to maintain forward motion in any place that was possible. Further examples of this can be discussed in necessary. 131