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Professional service contracts are negotiated and not put out to bid, and that was where the abuse took place with, um, previous assembly member, multiple $25,000 purchase orders were issued by the manager, which was Rick Gifford, and then also Bud Cassidy's signature was on some of them. And some of them were multiple purchase orders in the same day, which basically, when it came to light of the assembly, they thought it was criminal that that was not coming before them. And then Jamie Fagan got involved, and the intent was to preclude those professional negotiated contracts. It really wasn't to eliminate competitively bid projects. So what this change does is defines professional service means professional technical or consultant services that are predominantly intellectual in character, results in the production of a report or the completion of a task, and include analysis, evaluation, prediction, planning, and recommendation.