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The residents don't feel that the County is supportive of their problems and <br />the city doesn't have the staff to handle them. <br /> <br />Mr. Steiner said there is certainly no problem for the residents to contact the <br />County directly and the Health Department and Mr. Hutchinson would be the <br />sources to contact. <br /> <br />Mayor Gamec a~ked if they could document the complaints they receive and <br />send the city a copy. He said he has heard comments that have been negative <br />that come from the County. He said he thought people should have better answers <br />given to them. The city has done more work with the community and citizens <br />in this case than the County has. With all the problems, the County would <br />definitely want to be on top of them. He didn't think it was the city's job <br />to have to be the inbetween party. The County issues the permit and has <br />the say of what is right or wrong and what has to be done. <br /> <br />Mr. Bob Johnson, Asst. County Attorney, said the council should realize that the <br />County doesn't take this lightly. They would not have people at the meeting <br />tonight and no one had to be at the meeting. They are there because they are <br />concerned and it has brought us out before. Commissioner Fields is at the <br />meeting because he is concerned. The County does care and is going to work towards <br />resolving these problems. <br /> <br />Mayor Gamec said he was just stating the comments the council has received. <br /> <br />Mr. Johnson said sometimes people don't understand fully what is going on. <br />He said they were certainly open to talk to anybody anytime regarding their <br />problems <br /> <br />Councilman Cox said he didn't think there has ever been any problem with level of <br />response, but there has been a problem with the monitoring and regulating of <br />the landfill. There has been water ponding at the site which we viewed during <br />a tour. He said he could see the areas of ponding and the landfill people <br />themselves told them this creates leacha~e. This isn't necessary. The methane <br />gas should have been detected before the neighbors detected it. The city <br />is not the experts to do this. That is where the problem lies - the lack of <br />responsibility on someone's part. <br /> <br />Mr. Johnson said he could appreciate this concern and they were working to <br />make their inspections as thorough as possible. He said they would put as <br />much resources into that area as they could. <br /> <br />Councilman Cox noted that the County's report was much more explicit than the <br />PCA's. According to the PCA, everything is okay. <br /> <br />Mr. Clark said the PCA is only able to look at that facility on a monthly <br />basis. To a certain extent, they rely on the County for more frequent <br />inspections and they do keep contact with the County. He said the amount <br />of staff and time they have spent on this problem is tremendous. <br />He said there have been very few reports with documentation of violations <br />and there is a program being geared up right now for more competency. <br /> <br />Mr. Hutchinson said the levels of noise at the property line did not exceed agency <br />standards. <br /> <br />C/September 1~, 1980 <br /> Page-~ <br /> <br /> <br />