Consolidated Housing Development
                                        and
                                Management Company
                HWY 25 N * 314-276-5386 * MALDEN, MISSOURI 63863

January 7, 1992
Senator Jerry Howard
Missouri State Senate
Jefferson, City, Missouri

Dear Senator Howard:

Fax Message 1-75l-2230

            Reference:  Federal Register Friday july 26, 1991
                        Non-discrimination on the basis of Dis-
                        ability by Public Accommodation and
                        Commercial Facilities.

        I just received my copy of the new law last Friday,
when I meet with the staff from Design & Construction to
inspect two new offices buildings, that were occupied in
July and August of last year. According to the new law,
a number of items will not now meet the new law.

        These buildings were bid, and built, according to the
specifications given us by the state at that time, one is a
5 year lease, and the other a 10 year lease. They were
bid on a firm fixed price for the term of the lease.

        This new law is going to be DEVASTATING for small
business like ourselves that have no recourse, and have
to go back and make changes to comply with a new law. It
is also going to place an equally burden on Cities, Counties,
and the State. Many of the buildings are Handicap
accessible, but will not meet the new law, this is going
to be an added expense, with really little or no benefit.

        We built a new office building in Kennett 5 years ago
for Probation & parole to the States specifications, and it
was Handicap accessible. When the lease come up for re-new
last year, it would not technically meet the law, so we tore
out the walk, and re-did it, now 3 months later it will not
meet the law again. This is ridiculous, since the building
was Handicap accessible to start with, this building should
have been "Grandfathered" and us spending our time, energy,
and money on something that does not comply. This was an
added expense to the owner, with no re-course, and if their
was some re-course, it would have been added expense to the
State with no real benefit to anyone. In this case it just
happened to be a Probation & Parole office, which is just
one more example of the "Criminals" having more rights than
the average citizen and Tax payer of this country.
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Senator Jerry Howard                                      1/9/92

As per your request, I have assembled a reasonable
assumption, based on the State's own information, of lease
expenditures yearly. Projections are based on past
history of known inflationary items, construction costs,
insurances, utilities, etc.

From information received, from the Assistant Director of
Design and Construction, the State is currently spending
in excess of 25,000,000 yearly, for approximately
3,000,000 sq. ft. of leased buildings. This figure
exactly doubles the figures I had given you previously.
Let's chart these figures out and see what will be spent
in the next 20 years.

1st 5 year lease period ---------------  $125,000,000
2nd 5 year lease period -( 50% increase)-$187,500,000
3rd 5 year lease period -(  same  )------$281,250,000
4th 5 year lease period -(  same  )------$421,875,000
                                       $1,015,625,000

The 50% increase in lease costs shown, in 5 year
increments, is a reasonable assumption based on the last 5
to 10 years.

If you would divide the known 3,000,000 sq. ft. of leased
property, by 114 counties, the average would be 26,000 sq.
ft. per county. Current known construction costs for this
type building would run approximately $50.00 per sq. ft.,
for normal office type construction. Total cost per
building would run approximately $1,300,000, including
parking, and misc. Multiply this times 114 counties, for
a total cost of $150,000,000. Pay for it in five years,
like they are doing anyway with leased buildings, or pay
for them in twenty years with conventional financing.
Look at the cost savings to the taxpayers.

Look at all the money that could then be diverted, back
towards education, health care, ect. Wouldn't that be a
shot in the arm.

Jerry, I had mentioned that I had a copy of the new
Americans With Disabilities Act, here on my desk. I'm
really not too surprised with it, since it seems now the
minorities seem to have more rights now than the
majorities. (Their's are written down and Federally
mandated.)

One item worth mentioning, no longer are we required to
just furnish a low handicapped water fountain, but will
have to furnish a water fountain taller than normal as
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