[ SHOWGSD-L ] Longmont Victory
- From: "Ginger Cleary" <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 17:50:43 -0400
Ginger Cleary
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opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that
will reach himself. ~Thomas Paine
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-----Original Message-----
Longmont City Council held a study session to review the information
gathered by the Police Department regarding SBL and local statistic.
About 40 people attended the open session, with 10 or so speaking against
BSL and three speaking for it. The police chief then addressed the Council
with the information that he and his staff had gathered. The chief did a
great job stating the facts on statistics, current ordinances, and studies
relating to SBL in other towns.
The council then addressed the chief, city attorney, the humane society and
animal control with questions about what the stat's really showed, the
current ordinances, education, and animal licensing. In the end it was
unanimous that BSL would not be the best option for Longmont. The Council
stated that it was more important that the current ordinances are enforced
and that the attention should be placed on ways to increase the number of
licensed pets. A committee of local vets will be formed to come up with
ways to improve licensing and education - a group of vets had volunteered at
an earlier meeting.
The council said that they based their decision not on the views of the
citizens since the views were greatly based on emotion and each persons own
experience; instead their decision was based of the facts presented by
unbiased groups such as the police chiefs report, the humane society, the
kennel club and other agencies.
I hope other communities can learn from the Longmont Council - thank you to
those who sent letters to the Council.
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