Steve Owens
Steve Owens
time took
Everything helps. It took us a long time to get into this fix. It will take a long time to get out of it.
assurance bureau contract dilemma direct directly employee given handled ice notice possible work
The dilemma is that there was no direct contract with ICE, because that was handled through the one Bureau contract. It's possible that ICE may now want to work directly with us, but because we don't have any assurance of that, we have given every employee a notice of termination.
actual adjust begin bid cost estimates funding holder project until
We use the funding estimates as a place holder because we do not know what the actual cost will be until we begin building. It's not until you actually bid the project that you'll have an idea of what it's going to be and even then you many have to adjust it again.