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MINUTES May 11, 2000 2 BOARD OF HEALTH 5. Memo from Town Administrator re: Meeting with BOH Chairman Ball stepped down from discussion on this matter. Mr. Santos stated that he is not in favor of turning over the supervision of the transfer station to the Board of Selectmen. Mr. Doherty stated that the Ethics Commission has advised him thathe does not have a conflict and is awaiting a letter from them. He also stated that he does not want to give up the transfer station operation. He further stated that the Board of Health is mandated by the State to run certain aspects of the transfer station operation. Board members directed the Health Agent to send a letter to the Selectmen stating that the Board is not inclined to transfer operational responsibilities and that they will not meet with the Selectmen until after the written decision by the Ethics Commission has been received by Mr. Doherty. APPOINTMENT: Melvin & Shirley Reine of Five-Star Enterprises re: Illegal Dumping Mr. 8v Mrs. Reine were in attendance for this scheduled appointment. Ms. Warden gave a brief history of the illegal dumping situation off Great Hay Road in which Mr. Reine was dl alleg einvolved. Y Mrs. Reine read the following statement into the record: "On approximately 4/5, Dick Thomas from LMC called our office very upset. Apparently a load of debris was found on Great Hay Road in Mashpee that belonged to him. He accused us emptying a container on 3/31 from 9 Compass Circle into the woods of Great Hay Road. This is not true. We normally swap a full container with an empty one at the job site. We did not have an empty container available that day so we had to bring it to our yard to be emptied into one of our trucks and then we returned it back to him. LMC told us that the Board of Health was going to fine him $10,000 unless the debris was cleaned up. I called the Board of Health and spoke to Ronnie and asked her about the fine. She said it would be $300. Mr. Thomas called us the following day and said that the Board of Health told him that if the debris were cleaned up he would not be fined and we told him that we would help him out. On 4/8 Five-Star send two men to clean up the debris from Mr. Thomas and billed him for it on 4/15. Five-Star and Mr. Thomas of LMC have been doing business since 1996. We helped him because he is one of our customers. We believe it is not fair that Five-Star get cited for the helping out of a customer, nor to we believe that Mr. Thomas should be cited because although he admits it was his debris, it was cleaned up in a thoroughly and timely manner. Also Mr. Thomas asked Five-Star for another pick-up on the same container,on 5/10. We sincerely believe if he really thought we dumped the debris he would not want to do any further business with us." Mr. Ball asked, "Who was the truck drive on that haul?" Mrs. Reine responded, "That would have been Melvin. We didn't do it." Mr. McQuaid stated, "The key is that it has been cleaned up."