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AUG 21 1995 BOOK 61 `A Cu, F 868 attempting to stop, without success because of the lack of assis- tance from the County, the County is requiring me, as an indi- vidual citizen, to pay my own personal funds to operate a garbage dump for the County. By the County not enforcing its own laws and by the County requiring me to go to the financial hardship of removing the rubbish, the County has in effect established on my property a sub -station garbage dump that I have to pay taxes on and that I periodically have to pay to keep clean, and, additionally, I have to expend my own personal funds to have the rubbish hauled to and deposited at the County landfill. It seems to me that the County has in effect taken my property for public use, by allowing people to dump there, but requires me to be entirely responsible for the expense of the same. I can not afford to place a chain link fence around my property, and from my experience do not believe that that would do any good in any event, nor can I afford to pay someone to perform surveillance 24 hours a day to keep trespassers off my property, nor can I afford to continue- to run a sub -station garbage dump for the County. I realize that the County Code provides that, if I disagree with the ruling of the Code Enforcement Board, my recourse is to file an appeal with the Circuit Court. In order for me to do this, I would have to incur several thousands of dollars in court costs and attorneys' fees. Rather than doing that, I am coming to you, the County Commission, and am asking that you help me out of this unfair predicament by having the County crews remove the rubbish from my property, or, in the alternative, if you wish my property to be used for public use as a dumping ground, that you buy my property and pay me for it. I am sending a copy of this letter to Sheriff Dobeck and, by so doing, am asking him to also assist me in this matter by trying to catch the trespassers that are using my land as a dumping ground. Very truly yours, or, , ; - 4 (Mrs.) Gertrude M. (Shug) Carter Marvin Carter briefly summarized the above letter written by his mother, Gertrude Carter, who is requesting some relief from the County in this matter. He pointed out that they have cleaned up this property several times at considerable expense and even though "No Trespassing" and "No Dumping" signs were posted, the dumping continued. Mr. Carter felt it was very unfair for his mother to have been charged with running a junk yard and he believed the County needs either more dump stations or more code enforcement. Vice Chairman Scurlock believed that the master plan being prepared by the solid waste consultants will help solve these 71