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County seeing slow progress on animal ordinance
Shar Porier/Wick Communications
Though set to be tabled again, the issue of the proposed amendments to the animal control ordinance did have a bit of discussion during the meeting of the Cochise County Board of Supervisors last week. on Tuesday morning.
The amendments to the ordinance have been questioned by many residents, and Chief Civil Deputy County Attorney Britt Hanson has been working to incorporate some suggestions and clarify wording.
The proposed changes were to be voted on at the Jan. 6 meeting of the supervisors, but were tabled due to citizen input and a new date of Feb. 2 was set for action by the board.
After approving a motion to move the matter off the table at the Feb. 2 meeting, Supervisor Pat Call suggested removing it from the agenda and postponing any decision until the legal department was sure all the kinks had been addressed. He also pointed out the interest many residents have in the ordinance, and to continually table the matter was unfair to them.
"We don't know when we're going to deal with this. It seems we're continually dealing with word-smiting issues. Let's just take it off the agenda," said Call.
Hanson assured Call the drafts have been done and the ordinance would be ready for the Feb. 23 meeting, saying, "We are in agreement that we can have it ready in a couple of weeks."
Call responded, "There is no question in your mind that it will be ready for action by the board two weeks from now? This is not the first time you said we'd have it back in two weeks. And there's nothing to say we won't have it before us in another two weeks."
Hanson said, "This isn't like the last time this got tabled. I thought I could have it done by today, but we received some more comments."
The supervisors tabled it until Feb. 23.
The revisions to the court consolidation agreement between Sierra Vista and the county were approved. The city plans to handle its own photo citation program through a special vendor at Highway 92 and Foothills, Highway 90 and Martin Luther King Boulevard, Highway 90 and Highway 92, and Coronado and Fry. It lets the city deduct those vendor fees from the annual payment of $99,500 for citations acquired through the program.
A memorandum of understanding between the county and the Bureau of Land Management that provides a framework for a cooperative relationship and defines roles and responsibilities was also approved. The memo was recommended by the county Public Lands Advisory Committee. The memorandum allows mutual involvement in matters associated with activities that require environmental planning documents and to provide timely notice of upcoming projects and proposals.
(Shar Porier is a reporter at the Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review.)
Though set to be tabled again, the issue of the proposed amendments to the animal control ordinance did have a bit of discussion during the meeting of the Cochise County Board of Supervisors last week. on Tuesday morning.
The amendments to the ordinance have been questioned by many residents, and Chief Civil Deputy County Attorney Britt Hanson has been working to incorporate some suggestions and clarify wording.
The proposed changes were to be voted on at the Jan. 6 meeting of the supervisors, but were tabled due to citizen input and a new date of Feb. 2 was set for action by the board.
After approving a motion to move the matter off the table at the Feb. 2 meeting, Supervisor Pat Call suggested removing it from the agenda and postponing any decision until the legal department was sure all the kinks had been addressed. He also pointed out the interest many residents have in the ordinance, and to continually table the matter was unfair to them.
"We don't know when we're going to deal with this. It seems we're continually dealing with word-smiting issues. Let's just take it off the agenda," said Call.
Hanson assured Call the drafts have been done and the ordinance would be ready for the Feb. 23 meeting, saying, "We are in agreement that we can have it ready in a couple of weeks."
Call responded, "There is no question in your mind that it will be ready for action by the board two weeks from now? This is not the first time you said we'd have it back in two weeks. And there's nothing to say we won't have it before us in another two weeks."
Hanson said, "This isn't like the last time this got tabled. I thought I could have it done by today, but we received some more comments."
The supervisors tabled it until Feb. 23.
The revisions to the court consolidation agreement between Sierra Vista and the county were approved. The city plans to handle its own photo citation program through a special vendor at Highway 92 and Foothills, Highway 90 and Martin Luther King Boulevard, Highway 90 and Highway 92, and Coronado and Fry. It lets the city deduct those vendor fees from the annual payment of $99,500 for citations acquired through the program.
A memorandum of understanding between the county and the Bureau of Land Management that provides a framework for a cooperative relationship and defines roles and responsibilities was also approved. The memo was recommended by the county Public Lands Advisory Committee. The memorandum allows mutual involvement in matters associated with activities that require environmental planning documents and to provide timely notice of upcoming projects and proposals.
(Shar Porier is a reporter at the Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review.)
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