Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, I did meet with a number of the contractors about a year ago and I would say that we have probably had less concerns expressed recently than we had previously. I do not think that it is necessarily from anything that the department has specifically changed in the way it does business.
I think some of those issues that were raised at that time could probably be classified as personality type issues. I know that there has been a significant change, both in our staff and also in the contractors. There have been a number of contractors where the individuals have changed.
I think, and I can stand corrected by the individuals themselves, that the working relationship is better than it was. That does not mean that we do not disagree on issues. In fact, we have a number of issues that we continue to deal with, where we simply do not agree with the contractors.
That is fairly typical of most of the projects that we deal with. There are always issues that come up that have dollars attached to them and we make unpopular decisions. The decisions, where they are determined to be incorrect, we will go back and correct them and there are processes available to do that. But there seems to have been fewer of those in the last 12 months than perhaps there were in the previous 12 months.