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PROVIDING SERVICES, AND MR. JACKSON STATED THAT RURAL SANITATION DOES <br />AGREE AND CAN PROVIDE THE NECESSARY SERVICE. THEY DO NOT WANT A LARGE <br />4 <br />CORPORATION PUTTING THEMOUT OF BUSINESS, "YOU DO NOT GET INVOLVED IN <br />TRUST SUITS UNLESS YOU ARE PUTTING SOMEONE ELSE OUT OF BUSINESS, AND <br />YOU DO' NOT HAVE YOUR PEOPLE INDICTED IF IT IS A SOUND BUSINESS, THE <br />PRESENT INDICTMENTS SHOULD TELL YOU SOMETHING." <br />ALFONSO CLIETT, OWNER OF A FRANCHISE IN THE GIFFORD AREA, AP- <br />PEARED AND INFORMED THE BOARD HOW HE STARTED THIS SERVICE IN THE GIFFORD <br />AREA. HE CONTINUED THAT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS THE OTHER TWO FRANCHISE <br />HOLDERS IN THE UNINCORPORATED PART OF THE COUNTY HAVE WORKED IN HARMONY, <br />HE IS OPPOSED TO HAVING A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR COMPANY COMING IN AND TAKING <br />OVER, HE LOVES HIS WORK; HE WORKS STRICTLY BY HIS FRANCHISE; AND HE WOULD <br />LIKE TO CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN IT, HE IS OPPOSED TO SOMEONE COMING INTO <br />THE COUNTY AND TAKING OVER THIS FRANCHISE, To HAVE A NEIGHBOR COME IN <br />AND WORK WITH THEM IS GOOD, BUT HE WORRIES IF BIG BUSINESS MOVES IN, THEY <br />WILL TELL HIM HE HAS TO MOVE DOWN THE ROAD. <br />THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR AND CHAIRMAN LOY BOTH STATED THAT THEY <br />HAVE NEVER RECEIVED A COMPLAINT ABOUT MR, CLIETT'S SERVICE AND HAVE HAD <br />PEOPLE COMMENT ON THE GOOD JOB HE IS DOING. <br />MR, NEILL STATED THAT REGARDING THE RATES CHARGED IN BREVARD <br />COUNTY, SOME PICK-UPS ARE IN THE BASEMENT AND THEY CHARGE A LITTLE MORE <br />DEPENDING ON WHERE THEY HAVE TO PICK UP. <br />MR. NEILL STATED THAT HARRIS SANITATION HAS BEEN IN BUSINESS <br />MANY YEARS, AND HE KNOWS OF NO COMPLAINTS AGAINST THEM, <br />CHAIRMAN LOY STATED THAT SHE CANNOT FIGURE OUT WHY HARRIS <br />"SANITATION WOULD WANT TO COME TO INDIAN RIVER COUNTY FOR $3.25, <br />MR. HARRIS STATED THAT, AT THIS TIME, HE DOES NOT KNOW IF IT IS <br />FEASIBLE, BUT HE FEELS THERE IS A GROWTH POTENTIAL HERE AND IT SHOULD <br />BECOME FEASIBLE, <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE STATED THAT THE FRANCHISE HOLDERS IN INDIAN <br />RIVER COUNTY ARE MAKING A LIVING AT $3.25, BUT YOU ARE CHARGING $4.50 TO <br />$5,00 IN BREVARD COUNTY, AND HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THEY COULD SUB- <br />STANTIATE THOSE RATES AND THEN COME HERE FOR $3.25. <br />MR. NEILL STATED THAT UNDER THE FRANCHISE THAT IS PROPOSED, <br />THIS BOARD HAS COMPLETE AUTONOMY TO PROTECT THE RESIDENTS OF INDIAN RIVER <br />COUNTY. <br />-50- <br />AUG 2 01975 2Tf`EGE t <br />