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Director Pinto explained that we are trying to find the most cost effective way to take care of them. Burying them at the landfill causes extreme problems, and up until this time there has not been a shredder that would run more than 24 hours. As soon as they started putting steel lining in tires, shredders started going to pieces. Shredding is still not an inexpensive way to do this because of the maintenance of the equipment; however, we are going to try it because we don't feel we have any alternative. Other states are now charging deposits because of the problems involved with disposing of tires. John Wagner asked if we have looked into the City itself running the dump since we are paying them to pick up the garbage. He couldn't believe the county couldn't do a better job, and questioned why the county couldn't take over the collection of garbage also. Director Pinto advised that the master plan has addressed the possibility of the county getting into the collection business as well as the possibility of mandatory collection. As the population grows, we will have to readdress problems. Chairman Scurlock noted that the cost of going out and buying collection equipment is astronomical, and Director Pinto pointed out that the cost we are discussing only relates to the disposal cost. Chairman Scurlock commented that at budgettime we heard people state that we should turn more of over to the private sector; we have looked into this and will continue to. Phyllis Boisvert, Felismere, secretary/treasurer of the United Methodist Church, noted that they do not have a parsonage on the property but do have a church building and generate very little garbage. She was wondering how much of a tax bill the church would received. Director Pinto advised that it depends on the square footage of the church, and churches are assigned a very small generation formula. 43 DEC 2 2 198N mor, 70 rmu, 4?3