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Village backs off geese plan

From lohud.com
March 27, 2013

The Village Board decided Wednesday night that it would tell the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it was �not satisfied� with the option to kill the Canada geese and that other methods should be considered.

During a third public hearing on the village�s plans with the USDA to round up and kill the geese this summer, all but one of 13 speakers spoke out against the plan.

�Start again, and bring the community into this whole equation,� said village resident Gina von Eiff.

Soon after the hearing, Trustee Ilissa Miller sought to make a motion to cancel the $8,700 contract the village signed with the USDA last year.

�It�s a contract I can not support,� said Miller, who was elected in November.
Mayor Norman Rosenblum said Miller was �out of order� in seeking the motion, and the board briefly left the meeting to privately consult with Charles Goldberger, the village attorney.

The board reconvened a few minutes later, and Goldberger announced that the board would speak to the USDA representatives during the work session on April 1, before USDA�s planned presentation to the community.

�We will ask them to consider utilizing other methodologies,� Goldberger said.


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