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• • • Minutes, Regular Meeting, August 5, 1981, Page 7 I called Jim and talked to him to see if there wasn't any- thing the City. could do about it. He asked me to write a letter. I did; I wrote a letter then I got a letter back from the City saying they couldn't. do anything about it. They could forward my letter to the bonding company and the contractor. That was it. They said it was between me and the contractor. So what it boils down to, is these guys can come into the City, they can run over your driveway, your sidewalk, over your yard, I guess into their house if they want to, and the City says, we can't do anything about it. That's a civil suit between you and them; you'll have to take it to them. We'll do what we can so far as letters is concerned. Now, that's what goes on. Then over there on Rustic Gate another person built a swimming pool; they dumped. a huge pile of sand, sacks of concrete and covered up half of the street, left it there for days. No signs, no blinkers, no nothing. I got calls from some of the people over there. I called Jim; Jim said no, they shouldn't do that. I'll send somebody out there. Well, I don't. know what they did; they left the sand until they got through. Now the way I look at it, if somebody is going to build something •. they should put that stuff in their yard or drive. They shouldn't put it in the street. Then over in Creekmont where the Ryland homes are being built, I went through there one day on Myrtle Creek; they must have had ten yards of bark out in the street. You know, that kind of stuff goes on all the time. You call down here to Jim and you ;get, "Well, .you know, you can't keep the contractor out." Now I'd like to make some sug- gestions. If you've got a contractor comes into this City and doesn't even bother to get a permit, that ought to tell you something right there. I think also, whenever he gets a permit there should be some ground rules and I think if he doesn't abide by them he should be fined. Some rules should be that he shouldn't litter the streets or that he cleans it up if he does. Now it may be impossible to get in and out without it, but he should have to clean it. He shouldn't dump his sand or his bark mulch or dirt or what- ever. These things shouldn't be done. Now I haven't come down here for a long time cause we have had a reorganization of government. I thought I'd give everybody a chance to get their feet on the ground and get going, but we"ve got some things that need to be taken care of in our City. I would like to ask the two men that live in the area where I live to take a look at what I am talking about. Drive through this area and see what is going on as far as drainage. Look at the big mound of • dirt behind the brick wall. Gus, look at Farrington; look at the sink holes and look at the entrance on Fairmont Parkway. That ditch, by the way, is clogged up with dirt. It's been