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situations by providing for acceptance of all types of debris, <br />trash and garbage, as opposed to trying to limit the transfer <br />stations to certain materials. The County envisions accepting <br />everything that needs to be disposed of and expanding our whole <br />concept by discontinuing a tip fee and going to a parcel type of <br />assessment which would make it unreasonable to dump in somebody <br />else's yard when you are paying for the service anyway. He felt <br />that the proximity of a transfer station makes a great deal of <br />difference in how much trash is dumped on a vacant lot or grove. <br />He felt it is a difficult situation at best. <br />Mr. Carter felt there seems to be a bureaucratic attitude <br />that it is the land owner that is the violator, when, in fact, <br />they are the ones being violated. He felt that, in essence, his <br />mother is operating a garbage dump for the County at considerable <br />expense by having to pay to remove the debris from the property <br />and having to pay for putting it into the landfill on top of <br />that. He repeated that he feels somethings needs to be done, and <br />that Sheriff Dobeck indicated that this is a Code Enforcement <br />problem not a law enforcement problem. Mr. Carter did not know <br />where you split the two, but noted that Sheriff Dobeck believed <br />there was some kind of an agreement with the County 4 or 5 years <br />ago that this was going to be a code enforcement deal and that at <br />one time the County had a Code Enforcement Officer who apparently <br />is not around any longer. Mr. Carter emphasized that our code of <br />ordinances needs to be changed in order to permit a code enforce- <br />ment officer to levy appropriate finds or penalties to make folks <br />think before they dump. <br />Mr. Carter explained that the perpetrators access the <br />property from the westerly boundary on 38th Avenue and dump old <br />refrigerators, etc., alongside roads that are within the <br />property. <br />Commissioner Wodtke believed that in a case like this, where <br />the property has been cleaned up and posted and the dumping <br />72 q <br />AU G 211985 BOOK D FA; 863 <br />