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Local contractors urge Hernando County to loosen insurance and procurement rules; commissioners plan policy review
Summary
Several local contractors and the Builders Association told the board that county insurance and bonding requirements price small local firms out of county work. Commissioners agreed to review procurement, bonding and insurance rules and scheduled staff follow-up.
Contractors and builders told the Hernando County Board of County Commissioners on May 27 that current county insurance, bonding and procurement requirements make it difficult for small, local firms to win work.
At the public comment section landowner/contractor Landon Lafferty of TriPeak Roof and Cliff Fikes of Traffic Roofing described a recent airport roof bid that local firms lost after they could not meet the county's certificate-of-insurance requirements. Fikes told the board the insurance levels requested for that project would have cost more than the…
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