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Show BARD To Clamp Down On Haulers By GARY R. BLODGETT BOUNTIFUL Bay Area Refuse Disposal (BARD) board members agreed last eek that a "clamp down" is i Kcessary on all users of the BARD facility in West Boun- NEWLY appointed BARD Manager Elmer W. Barlow ad he has been conducting a survey of refuse delivered to the landfill site and has discovered disco-vered that some users especially espe-cially commercial haulers have not been charged properly. prop-erly. "We want to make this operation fair for everyone," tie said. "And the only way to do that is to have a fair and equitable system of collecting ' garbage fees." HE TOLD the board he is going through all the monthly accounts and trying to collect 00 "past due" accounts and tang everything up to date. Presently, he said, there are tat 30 customers on monthly month-ly accounts. Mr. Barlow stressed the importance im-portance of keeping up-to-date records and not allowing accounts to become more than id days past due. He said he thought he could collect on all tut about four or five iccounts. COMMERCIAL vehicles ire charged a minimum of $2 per load, but larger loads are weighed and charge is made wording to weight, it was explained. ex-plained. Area residents (with BARD cards) are assessed $1 P" pickup or small trailer y. Commercial haulers with rounts more than 30 days past due are subject to a 1.5 percent interest, according to fte board's decision. The door left open, however, for toilers to appeal any such acta ac-ta through the BARD Board. MR. BARLOW also outlined out-lined to the board a problem existing with state-owned vehicles using the BARD landfill land-fill without charge. "They should be charged the same as anyone else," said BARD Chairman Ernest Eberhard Jr. "We don't get anything free from the state and they should pay us for our service." MR. BARLOW noted however, that much of the debris de-bris delivered to the landfill has been picked up along the highways and that perhaps they (state) should not be charged full fee. He said a survey of other landfills show state-owned vehicles are being assessed on a 40-60 ratio paying only 40 percent of the total cost. BARD MEMBERS, however, howev-er, didn't agree but said they would settle for 50 percent. State Department of Transportation Transpor-tation presently has a bill with BARD amounting to about $2,500. In other action, BARD members were advised that a deed to 96 acres of BARD property has been returned to BARD owners. This land was purchased by BARD in 1971 as an extension to the landfill site but since BARD was not considered consi-dered an "entity," the property proper-ty was placed in the name of Davis County. THE LAND now has been deeded by the County to BARD, the latter of which operates op-erates under an interlocal agreement of all cities involved. in-volved. The board also discussed the lease or purchase of a large wood-cutter that could be used to cut wood for sale as firewood. fire-wood. Some board members felt the price of such a piece of equipment (between $8,000 and $13,000) may not be eco-nomicaly eco-nomicaly feasible. |