11.   Most contractors are paid when the work is finished or when they reach completion milestones on bigger jobs.

12.   Quite how the impoverished citizens could afford to pay a contractor was not made clear.

13.   So the company paid the contractor out of its own pocket and then collected from the city once the work was approved.

14.   The contractor is paid for all work performed plus profit, Godwin said.

15.   The contractors were paid by the district with public education funds whose allotment is based on average daily attendance of students.

16.   The customer pays the Home Service Store when the job is completed satisfactorily, and the Store pays the contractor.

17.   The periodic draws were needed to pay contractors as the massive project was being built.

18.   In both cases, the contractor is paid per citation, although Livesay said his office was considering paying its vendor a flat fee.

19.   It also cost the company a lot of money as it had to cough out extra money to pay its contractors to clean up, he added.