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hard copy evidence\]. See above \[cannot reference page number as you seem incapable of doing something so basic\] regarding works that I was intent on doing, any way we could to make savings – all as in the Minutes of 23 May 2014 2. You refer repeatedly to Wade as evidence of other work that was insisted upon by Mrs Hillgarth. Wade was one of many contractors quoting back in 2012 when you were intending to do the interior only (ie not “externals”). It is true that Wade were Mrs Hillgarth’s suggestion on the list of contractors. However Wade is completely irrelevant because they were never engaged. Hardly irrelevant – in fact without Mrs Hillgarth sourcing two initial Wade quotes there would be no argy-bargy for three years. We would simply have retained a Surveyor \[we did\] awaited his Specifications of works required to be done \[with little choice of financial concern for the exterior, but plenty for the interior \[a minimal or more substantial based on budget\], await tenders which the Surveyor arranges, checks and advises on, choose the most appropriate/usually the cheapest, and proceed hopefully within agreed budget/max cost. When completed, we pay up and that’s it. But the interior would have been painted one colour \[possibly two\] and a few items fixed if broken and the floor given a good old fashioned but more than adequate clean and polish. Not much else and even some items listed to be done in our Surveyor’s specifications which all contractors tendered from, including a final \[3rd\] Wade tender \[this time only quoting on the listed items in the Surveyor’s specifications, and not the items requested by Mrs Hillgarth to be quoted for in their two initial quotes, could be done cheaper than quoted for if indeed we had bothered as opposed to just letting our chosen contractor AR Lawrence to simply proceed and do all the works as quoted, and be done with it. BUT – our Surveyor’s specifications did NOT include many of the items that Mrs Hillgarth had requested of Wade \[and one or two others\] in their initial two quotes July 2012 and Jan 2013. We considered these somewhat regrettably “additional unaffordable items” and saddened that budget restrictions \[ie not having to go back to lessees for considerable additional funding way over and above the £2000 per lessee required to fund the Surveyor’s specifications as quoted by our cheapest contractor’s £105,019 budget. Wade’s tender was £219,000 or approx. £60,000 just for internals to include the additional “unaffordable items” Hence the 23 May 2014 Board meeting where Mrs Hillgarth was convinced that savings could be made, any way we could, and used for those items considered unaffordable. Savings were made, anyway we could, which included myself doing a considerable amount of “unaffordable” workings at a pretty reasonable cost \[which I appreciate