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(CDBG — Continued from Page 1) At some point between the initial Washington County concurrence with the 2006 RFP content and format, and the March 10 due date for written return proposals from vendors, Washington County CDBG staff decided that the RFP process we had used in 2005 and again in 2006 would possibly not comply with HUD contracting rules. The County had recently hired both additional CDBG staff and a consultant to assist with the maize of HUD rules. The City was advised within the past two weeks that we will be required to use the formal HUD -specified formal bidding procedure when we try again to get vendors interested in the Cimarron project. The process we must now follow per the County CDBG staff requires publication of the Notice to Bidders 2 weeks in a row, and then a bid opening not less than 10 days thereafter. As of March 28 were advised by the County CDBG consultant that HUD rules were again being modified and that she needs to get a new Davis Bacon Wage determination before we can start over with the vendor solicitation. In retrospect it is probably just as well that we received no proposals in response to our 2006 RFP. We probably would have had to start over (again) anyway. We expect to start over in the next week or two — pending the Wage Determination from the County. There has been no indication from the County CDBG staff that there is any issue with timing of grant funds expenditures — yet. By Fall that may be an issue.