Wild animal problem a city responsibility
Responding to Chelsea Angelo's June 25 letter, looking at a Web site doesn't remove the public safety issue of wild animals. Humans and wild animals cannot live in the same location without something bad happening.
To say animal control is overburdened is a joke. Call them with any animal problem and you are told to "call someone else they can't do anything." Why the city has not taken action is laziness according to state Department of Natural Resources law enforcement. I followed up on Tim Wyse's June 11 letter, and he is correct. This is a city problem and the city is liable 100 per cent if any incident occurs. Unfortunately this is what has to happen to get anything done. We have an animal control department that is worthless, a police department that thinks speeding is the only crime in town and city officials who do nothing. We don't need change, we need results and new city management.
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