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1 PUBLIC HEARINGS 0 2 Council Agrees to Assist in Funding Three Year Silver Lake Geese Removal 3 Proiect 4 At 8:00 P.M. Mayor Sundland opened the hearing on the above by reading 5 aloud the Notice of Hearing which had been published in the April 2nd 6 Bulletin. The Mayor reported learning from Mayor Hadtrath of Columbia 7 Heights that his City Council had already passed a motion authorizing 8 payment of their share of the costs of having the geese removed under 9 the supervision of Dr. James Cooper of the University of Minnesota as 10 requested by the Silver Lake Residents Association. Mayor Sundland 11 reported that although he and the other Councilmembers were certainly 12 conscious of the problem, he personally had heard from no lake residents 13 one way or the other since the Notice was published. 14 Proponents 15 Jerry and Diane Faust;; 4033 Silver Lake Terrace, were present to speak 16 in favor of the program. Mr. Faust indicated that although he did not 17 belong to the Residents Association and could not. speak for its members, 18 he stated that "as one of those most affected by the geese because I 19 live on the point where they squawked the most," he was certainly for 20 their removal. He said he was also assuming all property owners who had 21 the same problem would be in favor of their removal. 22 Councilmember Enrooth indicated that he had concluded from what he had 403 seen so far that although there would probably never be a 100% consensus 4 of all lake residents, the problems with the geese had escalated.to the 25 point where the highest level of agreement had been reached around the 26 lake in spite of diverse interests connected to the geese. The 27 Councilmember warned that even with a three year program, .all the geese 28 would never be removed, but at least additional growth in their numbers 29 would be limited. Because of the inborn instincts of the geese to 30 return each year to the island where they first nested, the proposed 31 removal program was the most logical way of preventing the problem from 32 growing. 33 Ron Severson, 2912 Silver Lake Court, as President of the Silver Lake 34 Residents Association, indicated he lived on a cul de sac which was not 35 on the lake and not directly impacted by the geese except when they flew 36 over. However, he reported, at the last Association meeting last June, 37 the largest attendance he had ever seen had been present because of-the 38 geese and the removal program idea. 39 The Association President then introduced Dr. Cooper, who he said could 40 personally report on his meeting with the Columbia Heights City Council 41 and could answer this City Council's questions about how effective 42 similar geese removal programs had been in other areas. 43 Dr. Cooper reported that: , • 7