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TO: <br />FROM: <br />DATS: <br />41189.2 <br />Mayor and City Council <br />Mark E. Bernhardson, City Administrato^l'^ M <br />April 11, 1989 <br />SOBJKT: Waterfowl Relocation Program <br />Attachments: <br />ISSUE <br />A. Waterfowl Removal Memo Dated 4/6/89 <br />B. New Release/Waterfowl Relocation Program <br />Dated 4/11/89 <br />1. Provision of opportunity for the public to express their <br />opinion regarding the City's possible granting of permission to <br />allow the relocation of Canadian Geese from the community to <br />another habitat. <br />2. Determination as to whether the City Council would grant the <br />authority to relocate the Canadian Geese. <br />3. Determination of what funding, if any <br />undertake to assist in removal. <br />the City would <br />INTRODUCTION - As noted in Attachment A there has been interest <br />by one neighborhood to have Canadian Geese relocated from their <br />area. As noted in Attachment B notification was placed in the <br />paper to inform people that the City of Orono was considering the <br />possibility of allowing the relocation of Canadian Geese from the <br />community. <br />DISCUSSION - As noted last time the requirements of permits from <br />the Department of Natural Resources the Federal Migratory <br />Waterfowl Agency require a public opportunity (although not a <br />public hearing per se) to comment on the City's participation in <br />the program prior to its making a determination as to whether it <br />wants to participate or not. <br />The program is a humanitarian way of capturing the geese and <br />relocating them to areas generally further south in rural areas <br />that desire to have the birds located there. <br />The cost of the program is about $1,000 per year and the <br />neighborhood on Pheasant Lawn has indicated their willingness to <br />contribute the total for 1989. It is anticipated that this <br />program would be on a year to year basis depending on what <br />contributions the neighborhoods put forward. <br />The City has not budgeted any money for participation in the <br />program and presently there is only one other area that would be <br />a candidate at this point, however, that does not mean that in <br />the future there would be other areas.