20080516Schmidt Reply.pdf

. I need to explain some of my personal experience; I.wmked fòr Hubble Homes Land'
Development for two years, managing the construction of the subdivisions in Ada
County. fused a large local construCtion company to.do the majority of the site work on
many subdivisions. This large company is a United Water contractor and if I had not
contracted this company to do all of the pipe work for Hubble during the boom, I would
nothave been able to get all the subdivisions done. Most of this work was done at an
inllated price because all the contractors were so busy. The ironic par ofthiswhòle'
complaint is that the large company that contracted all Hubble's pipe work would sub a' .
. large percentage of this sewer work to Schmdt Construction and then do thewàter work
themselves. This scenario was great for Schmidt then, however today developers do not
wantto see two contractors on one job because it typically costs more to split up pieces
ofaproject. While workingåt Hubble, Charer Pointe Subdivision was a huge ongoing
ptojecnhat was in United Water'sjurisdiction. I personally have filled óut United
Water's; installed facilties.form; and done final inspections and walkthrough's on
various phases of that project. ,As you can see, I am already pre-trained for some .of
United Water's detailetl documentation processes. . '.
Second, United Water's claim that a new contractor wil go through a two yearlearning
cure' andtraining process. Høw does Meridian, Kuna, Nampa, Caldwell, Eagle and
every other Water District in the whole state deal with all these incompetent unquafitied
contractors doing water wørk'in theit towns. I would like to see detailed lists or .'
requirements thatp~ove that it would take Schmidt Construction tWQ years toleam.
United Water's ways. .
United Water has also listed reasons regarding extra costs related to these two years of
training and administrative work. I am .very much in agreement that times are tough and
extra costs fòr anyone are not good. I do apologize to the PUC; Taxpayers and United'
.Waterfm the internal cost of this ongoing formal complaint. At some point the cOsts that .
were incurred durng this process wil próbably exceed the extra training and
., administrative costs that United Water would have had had they just let us on the
approved list when I submitted the application in November 07' . With that, said, I am
willng to share or pay for some of United Water's extra costs relating to the training and .
administrativé costs they would incur while settng Schmidt Constrction up as an
, àpproved contractor.' .