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is allocated to residential. The reason residential represents a significant amount of cost in many cases is because there is one commercial truck, one roll -off truck and two residential trucks that service the county. Commissioner Scurlock didn't feel that the small adjustments that he pointed out would make a major difference, because if you adjust the loss down, it is only a few pennies. However, it seems to him that the time has come when we should regulate the entire operation so that we have numbers and allocations of cost available to us. By regulating the residential side, we are regulating the rough side where there are marginal profits involved; therefore, an achievable goal for the County is to have a rate of return that reflects current interest conditions. Since there is no definition of residential and commercial in the franchise agreement, he couldn't fault Harris. It seems that the County has adopted a concept that if it is a roll -off container and a single bill, it is commercial, and if it is individual door-to-door pickup, it is residential. Commissioner Scurlock believed that if Harris is out there with those kind of competitive rates, Treasure Coast is doing the same thing. He felt we need to bring in the other hauler so that we get the same set of facts for everybody including the franchise fee. He felt there are some serious questions in terms of how cost allocations are made and residential vs. commercial. Chairman Eggert agreed that it is frustrating when you can't see the big overall picture as to the cost allocations and have to take a lot of it on faith. Attorney Stone stated that Harris Sanitation absolutely has no objection to the County regulating both residential and commercial under any circumstances. function of the Commission to do so. They feel that is a reasonable Commissioner Scurlock asked if they would be willing to say what their feeling is for a rate of return on the commercial ,-, 23 BOOK �° f ":GE 50- P 3 1990