Mayor Nicholson requested anyone wishing to speak at the public hearing to come to the podium, state name, address, and limit comments to four minutes. I have small children who like to play in their yard. We're tightly fit in. I have nuisance squirrels. I live right next to Lander University, which has a bunch of them, and they roam over in my area.
All animals are nuisance.
If I go out and kill a squirrel, what guarantee do I have or any person has they are going to pick that squirrel up and properly dispose of. That squirrel may have some type of disease, which domesticated animals, cats, dogs may eat, bring them back home to our children. We're going to have a bigger problem than what we have right now with just nuisance squirrels. I think Council needs to go back and defeat this ordinance totally and 100 percent and rethink exactly what they want to do. Some people may think this is a drive-by shooting when they hear guns going off.