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L�J a number of complaints re 4:55 and 5:15 A.M. pickups, and, in fact, the truck came through her neighborhood at 5:25 A.M. Chairman Scurlock advised that he also has received four or five calls a week on this matter, and he felt we must take some type action - either change the ordinance or enforce it. Attorney Robert Jackson came before the Board representing Rural Sanitation. He did feel the corrnnerci,.al/residential should be reviewed because the ordinance will never work in places such as Ryanwood where single family is backed up to commercial. He informed the Board that. Rural Sanitation is being requested by some residents to pick up earlier in the residential areas because they want the trash out of there before they get up in the morning. Attorney Jackson believed it is premature to set a hearing under the franchise. There are two provisions in the franchise; due notice is required; and if there is a problem, they are supposed to rectify it. They, therefore, would like to have the Board set some kind of a deadline for a solution of the problem. Attorney Jackson felt one solution would be to have trucks that only pick up for commercial and those that only pick up residential, and the residential trucks cannot leave before 6:00 A.M. He stressed that he did not see any sense in having a hearing because they are willing to correct the problem. The Chairman pointed out there is a possibility we could change the ordinance to include no pickup for commercial before 6:00 A.M. Commissioner Bird asked if it is necessary for the company to pick up commercial before 6:00 A.M., and Robert Pryor, owner of Rural Sanitation, stated that they would run into a big . traffic problem along U.S.I. if they started it after 6:00 A.M. Chairman Scurlock did not believe there have been any complaints about the other sanitation company, and Mr. Pryor stated that some of the complaints cited are about Harris 47 BOOK D F'.,