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half the cost. Something has to be wrong there, i.e. management equipment, efficiency. Commissioner Wheeler did not like the idea of 3 or 4 trucks servicing the same neighborhoods or shopping centers. Director Pinto pointed out that staff is not satisfied with the way the basic franchise is written, but pointed out that is what we have to work with. He recommended strongly that we try our very best to negotiate whatever we can in favor of the County to get better controls within the franchises. If this company or any other company wants to do a needs analysis, based on service, price, equipment, they certainly have the opportunity to do that and come back before the Board. Chairman Scurlock pointed out, however, that while they are doing their needs study, the County will be negotiating with the existing franchise holders for specific areas. The whole point is going to be moot and they will have spent a substantial amount of money on their needs study. Attorney Messer stressed that when you have competition, rates go down, and they are simply asking that they be allowed to do a needs study before their submittal is rejected. Commissioner Bird asked what how much time they would need to do that study, and Attorney Messer believed it would take 6 months, but perhaps it could be done sooner. G. Lewis Belks, attorney for Tropical Waste, Inc., did not see any emergency in making this decision today. No service is going to be stopped, nothing is going to happen if the Board gives them some time to bring in a needs study. He felt the CDM study was not based on any outside polling of any kind that he could garner from the four corners of the document presented. It seemed to him that the study was restricted to an interrogation of some degree of the two present franchised haulers. If the County wants to accept that, there is nothing they can do to fight that. All they are asking is that the County give them a 91 Boor. 71 FAGE 91