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Commissioner Bird responded that he would not mind hearing Mr. Legwen's comments but has read his memorandum requesting a workshop and does not have any interest in that. Glen Legwen of 5900 5th Street Southwest, presented the following letters: Q&414-'4 petite 4- Nw►o" q1 T)e + 5900 514 sleet 9*/ V&w fieack, ONjtda 32968-9659 9e1: (407) 778-979/ May 18, 1995 Mr. Jim Chandler County Administrator Indian River County Dear Mr. Chandler, I would like to be place on the docket sometime before June to address the County Commissioners regarding the Sanitary Land Fill. I would like to ask them to direct the Utility's Department to call a work shop for the businesses community before the July Budget hearings. Itis my belief and the belief of others in this community that we have a situation taking place at the landfill that can only be described as gross mismanagement. We have hired an maintain on call several engineering firms who in my mind had demonstrated their inability to perform the slightest engineering calculations correctly. We are paying these engineering firms to resolve our problems not create more. In looking back over the public record beginning on or about 1982/83 1 discovered one of the engineering firms I am referring to arrived about the same time that Mr. Terry Pinto arrived. If my memory serves me correctly Mr. Pinto has no engineering diploma of any kind and he was hired on the basis of some knowledge he had obtained from working with a water plant in Ft. Pierce. If my memory also serves me correctly prior to his arrival in Vero Beach Mr. Pinto at some time or another worked for a company called Masteller and Moller who operate one or more land fill sites in New Jersey. In the late seventies early eighties while Neil Nelson was County Administrator we contracted to have a land fill site installed that was state of the art. It had scales on which to weigh trucks coming in and going out. It had an air curtain destructor and all of the modern conveniences that were required by the state at the time it was installed. The life expectancy of this land fill was estimated to be ten possibly fifteen years. As the public record will clearly show the estimated life was less than the projected amount. If one were to go back and examine the records one would find that the bulk of the material that was being disposed of in the land fill was biodegradable material. Very little of the material was what one might consider to be non-destructable. 13 MAY 229 1995 Boa 95 PAA54