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MINUTES February 4, 1999 10 BOARD OF HEALTH Mr. Bauer answered, "It might make more sense to have a contract in place". "It guarantees so much is going out the door, when they are coming out to get it, and what they are going to supply". "You may end up breaking even or be a little bit ahead but the hassle you remove from yourself is tremendous". "You know roughly what you are doing". Mr. Doherty stated, "One of the problems we have run into is the size of the facility, we don't generate enough to make it attractive for anyone to lock into a rate to go into a contract with us". Mr. Bauer stated, "I understand, but none of the transfer stations regulations allow you to accumulate materials speculatively to wait for the market to change". "But when your contractor or vendor doesn't come and pick it up after a 90-day period, they are forcing you to speculatively accumulate, and that is not good". "DEP will come in and say look at the size of that pile". Mr. Doherty noted, "There are a lot of issues". "He could be waiting for that price to go down so he can charge us more". Mr. Bauer stated, "Contracts try to get away from that as much as possible". "You do not have to go for a long-term contract". "But you could have some ideas over how much volume you produce every year so you can have an idea of what he can expect". Mr. Bauer asked, "Will you consider doing something like this?" Mr. Doherty answered, "We have some issues with Weston& Sampson". Mr. Bauer stated, "He could guarantee he could be extremely competitive with them because he does not have their overhead or travel time". "And there is one thing I can give you that I give all my good clients, if you don't like my service and I write this in the contract, don't pay me". "I feel that strongly about my service and my abilities". Mr. Doherty asked, "Do you believe the scope of our transfer station is within your ability to perform". Mr. Bauer answered, "Yes, easily". "What makes it easy to run those stations is that everything is on paper that you need to know." "I'm gone on vacation, here's the manual, got a problem, look it up". W. Doherty stated, "Essentially we are through the construction period, we've capped it and there are not a lot of engineering requirements". We are at the point where we are not changing the facility anymore".