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with here is that we have existing franchises, and they are 20 <br />year franchises. He noted that when you are going to embark on a <br />needs study, there are some important questions to be considered: <br />1) If we are going to stay as we are now and allow the franchises _ to collect as they wish throughout the county, and have a non- <br />mandated collection, there may not be a need. <br />IN 2) If we move to a point where we are going to require collec- <br />tion of garbage, and he felt we will be pushed into that as <br />growth continues to take place, that means that overnight the <br />customer base is going to be 1000 of what is out there and that <br />requires taking a look at whether the existing franchises can <br />take care of what is going to be needed to service the people in <br />the community. <br />Director Pinto personally was convinced that if you -do not <br />regulate commercial prices, then you should not limit the ability <br />to give out franchises because if you do, you are offering <br />protection to the vendor and not the customer. He informed the <br />Board that staff has been working with Camp, Dresser & McKee over <br />the last year and have come up with the solid waste master plan <br />and are now at the point of having public hearings on the new <br />rate structure. He explained that the hearings have nothing to <br />do with regulation, they will address the county having a charge <br />based on what we determine as the waste stream coming out of any <br />customer, and this charge is to cover the Landfill cost; it does <br />not have anything to do with transportation of the waste. <br />Commercial still would be unregulated, and he recommends that it <br />remain that way. <br />Chairman Scurlock believed there is still a question in some <br />of the Commissioner's minds as to why we would regulate residen- <br />tial and not commercial. <br />Director Pinto advised that what staff based their recommen- <br />dation on is the way the present franchise is written, which <br />requires a needs study and does not regulate commercial. If, in <br />fact, the Board takes the Chairman's suggestion and has our <br />25 <br />iOCT 13 1987 aooK 69 F�E 667 <br />