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r <br />STEADILY IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, AND HE DOES NOT WANT THEM TO GET DOWN <br />TO.A BREAK-EVEN POINT WHERE HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ORDER THE NEW TRUCKS HE <br />BADLY NEEDS, THE COST OF WHICH HAS INCREASED ALMOST 60%. <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT ASKED WHETHER IT WOULD BE A PROBLEM TO HAVE <br />TWO RATES - ONE FOR BACK DOOR PICK-UP AND ONE FOR CURBSIDE. <br />MR. FRYER STATED THAT IT WOULD BE A BOOKKEEPING PROBLEM AS WELL <br />AS A LABOR PROBLEM. HE NOTED THAT ABOUT 50% OF HIS PICK UP IS CURBSIDE, <br />BUT IF SOMEONE CAN T BRING IT OUT, THEY WILL PICK IT UP REGARDLESS, <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE INQUIRED ABOUT LABOR COSTS, AND hR. FRYER COULD <br />NOT GIVE EXACT FIGURES, BUT NOTED THAT IF THEY DIDNIT HAVE ANY CURBSIDE <br />SERVICE, HE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE AT LEAST TWO MORE MEN AND POINTED OUT THAT <br />THERE IS A TREMENDOUS DIFFERENCE IN THE TIME FACTOR AS WITH CURBSIDE SERV- <br />ICE, YOU CAN PICK UP ABOUT TWICE AS MUCH IN A DAY, <br />GEORGE MCKENNA, OF THE ADMINISTRATORS STAFF, STATED THAT HE FELT <br />THE QUESTION OF RATES FOR RURAL SANITATION IS QUITE DIFFERENT THAN FOR <br />INDIAN RIVER SANITATION AS THEY HAVE BEEN IN BUSINESS 18 YEARS, THEY HAVE <br />A GREAT MANY CUSTOMERS, AND HAVE SHOWN A GOOD PROFIT OVER THE YEARS. HE <br />ASKED HOW THEY ARRIVED AT THE INCREASE OF $1.00 PER MON"T"H PER CUSTOMER, <br />WHICH HE POINTED OUT WOULD MEAN AN INCREASE OF $2,000 PER MONTH. HE NOTED <br />THAT THEY HAVE ASSETS OF ROUGHLY $200,000, AND AT 10% THAT WOULD ONLY JUS- <br />TIFY A $20,000 RETURN. HE FELT THE REQUESTED INCREASE WOULD GENERATE MORE <br />PROFIT THAN IS REQUIRED. <br />MR, FRYER POINTED OUT THAT AMONG OTHER THINGS, HIS LABOR FORCE <br />HAS NOT HAD A RAISE IN TWO YEARS, AND ALSO CONTAINERS MUST BE REPLACED, THE <br />PRICE OF WHICH HAS INCREASED OVER 40% AND WILL, NO DOUBT, CONTINUE TO RISE. <br />DISCUSSION CONTINUED IN REGARD TO THE FIGURES PRESENTED BY MR, <br />FRYER. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE INFORMED THE BOARD THAT HE HAS RECEIVED COMMUNI- <br />CATIONS IN FAVOR OF THIS RATE INCREASE FROM WALTER BUCKINGHAM, A.E.ROWE, <br />AND RUDY HUBBARD AND FROM NORMAN MILLER, JR., AND HARRY FROSCENO OPPOSING <br />IT. THEY ARE HEREBY MADE A PART OF THE MINUTES. <br />60 <br />FEB 91977 4 13 <br />I <br />