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Minutes - San Leandro City Council Meeting - August 2, 1993 Page - 3 - PUBLIC COMMENTS (continued) F. Dave McDonald, Oakland Scavenger Company, spoke regarding New Business, Item B, and read the description, which said, "One effect of the proposed Ordinance would be to delete an existing exclusion from compliance with the Municipal Code provisions relating to garbage collection that applies to areas within the City limits but that are currently served by the Oro Loma Sanitary District. " He said Oakland Scavenger Company has served the Oro Loma Sanitary District since 1944 and has done business in San Leandro for a like number of years. He said, as to this Ordinance, he believes they are caught between a rock and a hard place. He said they work hard at maintaining good relations with the jurisdictions within which they work and the customers they serve. He said they have the franchise with the Oro Loma Sanitary District, and they believe action on this Ordinance infringes on their rights under that franchise. He said they are concerned about maintaining good relationships with everyone and concerned about their rights under their agreement with Oro Loma. He said they are concerned their customers would end up paying two franchise fees -- one to Oro Loma and one to San Leandro -- and was concerned that the Ordinance would become effective 30 days after adoption, which would not be enough time to work out a franchise agreement. In response to questions from the Council , he said the current contract with Oro Loma Sanitary District goes through the year 2003. Council Member Corbett said, when this item came up on the calendar, she would like to discuss some of these questions. Council Member Nahm asked if Mr. McDonald has provided to staff what rights they feel would be infringed upon by the Ordinance. Mr. McDonald said they had not yet had an opportunity to do so. He said they are concerned that they have a contract with Oro Loma Sanitary District under which they are required to pay a franchise fee through 2003; and, if this Ordinance passes, it would imply there would be another franchise fee that would be imposed upon their customers. G. Dana Johnson, 343 Farrelly Drive, said he has heard concerns at a number of homeowners' association meetings which he has attended regarding traffic and how hard it is to get a stop sign installed. He suggested the City Council should look at the criteria for stop signs. Mayor Faria said the City is required to follow the State of California criteria in order to install a stop sign. He said there are risk- management issues. He said he agreed it should be a quicker process and said the criteria could be provided to the associations. H. Susan Riskind-Poulsen, Broadmoor Boulevard, spoke regarding the same issue as Dana Johnson. She said she met with Mr. Smith, the Durant Manor Association in Oakland, who represents the Oakland side of Durant Avenue. He gave her a 1990 letter from the City of Oakland to his homeowners' association, regarding a request for a traffic signal at Durant and Bancroft. The letter said there had been a number of accidents there and that Oakland would be working with San Leandro on this. She said Mr. Smith still has not received a response.