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L J • • Minutes, Regular Meeting, August 5, 1981, Page 6 out there, down the middle of Farrington, down the esplanade. Well, of course they really tore the place up out there. Now there are big sink holes out there where the ground has sunk. There are mounds of dirt where the grass has grown over it. They need to be leveled. Then on down by Fairmont Park- way where they put the sewer line it, it's been left that way and this goes on and on, year after year, month after month. These things just stay that way. I don't know if anybody would ever fix them if somebody didn't come down here and say something about it, and I'm not sure they'll fix it then, be- cause I've talked to Mr. Hodge a month ago and he came out and drove around with me and I pointed out some things that needed to be taken care of then. Over at Myrtle Creek there's a big old mound of dirt that needs to be spread that's been there since March. We spend a considerable amount of money out there percentage wise, mowing, edging, watering, planting trees, trying to keep the subdivision looking nice. We get practically no help from the City at all. What the City does do is come out and tear something up and leave it. Now this is something that has bothered me for years. Why do we hire a contractor, let him come in, let him tear things up and let him leave them that way for months? When I talk to Jim and •. some of the other people down here, they say, well, when we get ready for final inspection, they will clean it up. Final inspection may be a year and in the meantime, your City is tore up and looking bad that long. I don't see any sense in this. Right now they are working over east of us. They track mud down those streets and people call me; of course, I can't do anything about it, but if I were manager of this City, I would do some- thing about it. They should be made to provide an access road and not permitted to track mud and heavy equipment up and down the paved streets of our subdivisions. This is done regularly. Contractors come in and do just about what they want to and get away with it. I'll give you a first hand example. Right across the street from me they are building a swimming pool. The first day, I went over to ask that they don't get on my driveway. That driveway. has been jacked up two times; I don't want heavy equipment on my driveway. Well, every day they got on my driveway and they finally broke it. Well, I called the City and talked to Hudgens about it, but first they muddied up the street. They parked a low-boy out and parked it on the street Friday, Saturday and Sunday. They brought the back-hoe on it. It was a very dangerous piece of equipment to be left on the street. I called the police but they probably couldn't get ahold of the owners. It should be put into the permit when they get a permit and by the way, these people didn't get a permit. They came out and went to work without one. But I understand from Mr. Paulissen they eventually did get everything • all straightened out. But anyway, they did this to start off with; they broke my driveway and muddied up the street and then