(Terri ND): VR recognized the importance of the WIPA program, their benefits to their beneficiaries in North Dakota and their clients and they gave us some money. (Crosstalk) (Terri Uttermohlen): They gave the organization some money, but that person is not a VR employee. (Terri ND): Correct, right. that’s (Terri Uttermohlen): So firewall issue. there’s no (Terri ND): Beautiful, thank you for the clarification. (Terri Uttermohlen): welcome. You’re (Terri ND): Also one real quick one if I can, are there - I know that we set benchmarks for all WIPA projects. Is there any wiggle room say for modifications or at least some leeway? Some of let’s you are extremely rural, and I - this goes back a little bit to the outreach thing, and like it was touched on before like how some trips can take an all day. We make it as efficient as we can, but man, just wildly different for some of us and in some of these states. But I guess that was it’s more of a comment than a question. (Terri Uttermohlen): Okay, I might be off base here, but we made a comment that we may be modifying some of these benchmarks. receive further guidance. You know, a lot of these questions You’ll are kind of you know, the types of questions that we sort of a wait and see and see what we let’s get when we make all the final awards, you know, and we have all these new contractors on board.
(Terri ND): VR recognized the importance of the WIPA program, their benefits to their beneficiaries in North Dakota and their clients and they gave us some money. (Crosstalk) (Terri Uttermohlen): They gave the organization some money, but that person is not a VR employee. (Terri ND): Correct, that’s right. (Terri Uttermohlen): So there’s no firewall issue. (Terri ND): Beautiful, thank you for the clarification. (Terri Uttermohlen): You’re welcome. (Terri ND): Also one real quick one if I can, are there - I know that we set benchmarks for all WIPA projects. Is there any wiggle room let’s say for modifications or at least some leeway? Some of you are extremely rural, and I - this goes back a little bit to the outreach thing, and like it was touched on before like how some trips can take an all day. We make it as efficient as we can, but man, it’s just wildly different for some of us and in some of these states. But I guess that was more of a comment than a question. (Terri Uttermohlen): Okay, I might be off base here, but we made a comment that we may be modifying some of these benchmarks. You’ll receive further guidance. You know, a lot of these questions are kind of you know, the types of questions that we sort of a wait and see and let’s see what we get when we make all the final awards, you know, and we have all these new contractors on board.
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