Finance Committee - 07/15/2020 Page 18
Mayor Donchess
But how many of those are roosters?
Alderwoman Kelly
None of them are, no roosters, because that would be against the Ordinance, right? |’ll share a picture
sometime.
Mayor Donchess
Does Alderman Dowd have a question.
Alderman Dowd
Yes, you are referring to chickens, but it does not apply to roosters. We have a noise Ordinance against
roosters and we have found places for roosters to go. We had issues when they were brought to the Human
Society, on Ferry Road, the neighbors complained. If they are there for a couple of weeks it is an issue. So |
would hope that any roosters that are impounded will go the places that we found out of town that will take
them.
Mayor Donchess
Any other comments? Alderwoman Klee.
Alderman Klee
Thank you. | don’t know if anybody can answer what Alderman Dowd had said. The issue with roosters as | u
understand it is that yes, if an individual, they can’t bring it to the Humane Society. However, if our Animal
Control Officer does, in fact, pick one up and | think that’s what those six are that have been since January 1°,
2019, they came through the Animal Control Officer. When they come through the Animal Control Officer, they
have no choice but to bring them to the Humane Society. The Humane Society can’t just bring them to the
places that we put up there, they have to have some type of blood work and that’s what we had mentioned at
the last meeting. That bloodwork results can take up to a week. And the last case, | believe that there’s
someone who was kind enough to take the rooster and | have a feeling it was the one that was running around
Ward 3 but took that rooster to either their home or | don’t Know whether it was pending that or they were going
to be keeping it or what the situation was.
But they did try to get it out there, we can’t expect people to step up like that. That was what my concern was
that | brought up at the last meeting was that if our Animal Control Officer does bring them there, there was a
week where they have to sit there pending the blood work. | had asked who pays for that test, | had asked that
kind of question. It doesn’t look like it is costing anything, so | am really happy to hear that. But your concern
about the rooster possibly remaining in there for a week still exists and technically speaking, our Ordinance
says “No roosters” including them. So we are kind of in a Catch 22. They can’t keep it, but they can’t get rid of
it. We have built this into the system. And that was the question | was trying to bring up at the last meeting,
my concern with the chickens, | should say the roosters. The chickens don’t seem to be an issue, it’s just these
roosters. And the one | believe that was running around Ward 3, was because the individual just let it go.
From what | could tell from the Animal Control Officer, he picked it up because someone called that there was
a rooster in the street.
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
Just to be clear, this is to take it off the table by roll call.
