If you hire someone like an architect to design a custom building for you, you are obligated to pay him for the work he does. You can't come to him after the design is nearly done and say "oops, we've changed our mind, we don't want to build after all" and expect him not to bill you for the work you hired him to do. At least the part he has done so far. And maybe even the whole thing, since it's likely that he turned down other jobs to work on your contract.
But as a city, we need to insure the protection on each contract we consider. If a potential contractor will not settle on that, we should never HINT that we would do business with them. We have !
a risk management department, but it has to start doing its job better.
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Jim Mork--Cooper
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