Goodbye to the Geese at Library Pond

The geese will soon be gone from library pond. Aggressive geese have been leaving droppings on walking paths, parks, open areas and playgrounds and threatening residents who walk near their nests. Now the Village has made an agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture for an "integrated wildlife management program" to get rid of the geese. They will be "humanely euthanized" and "processed for human consumption."

To prevent more geese from hatching, Canadian goose nests and eggs will be treated with corn oil. The program will run from March through September at a cost to the Village of $5,054. The resolution to do away with the geese was passed at the January 8, 2013 meeting of the Scarsdale Board of Trustees.

Also at the meeting, Mayor Miriam Flisser made the following comments:
1) Emergency Notifications: All residents received a letter in their annual Recycling/Trash Pick-up Schedule Mailer, sent in the past few weeks. The mailer explains how the Village Emergency Notification System works, and recommends that residents go to Scarsdale.com, the Village Website, and click on the BlackBoard Connect Logo for instructions in adding more email, text and telephone numbers, including cell phones, to be used for information calls from the Village. The Village already has your home telephone number, but if the telephones are not working, it's best to have another point of contact, such as a work number, for our use.
Some residents reported to me that they hung up on my voice on Robo calls that I made during the recent Hurricane disaster, because since it was election time, they assumed that the calls concerned getting out the vote. Please be assured that the Village Board of Trustees set strict policy for the Emergency Notification System when it was initiated, in 2011. It is to be used for important Village notices such as dangerous situations, never for other matters.

2) I'd like to remind the residents that the Village Wide Revaluation of all properties is entering a second phase, and Tyler Technologies, our contractor for this process, has scheduled a meeting to present this phase, the distribution of property data mailers to all homeowners, on Wednesday, Jan 16 @ 7:30 PM in Rutherford Hall.
Please join us at this important presentation.

3) I'd also like to mention the Village Board's deliberation on the amendments to the regulations concerning
Permanent Emergency Generators, a topic that we have been working on since 2011. Tonight we have scheduled Public Hearings on Zoning and Noise, and we invite residents to present their opinions on this matter.

In addition, there have been 4 Public Hearings held at the Planning Board, and an additional Law Committee meeting with public comments presented in December. The Law Committee will meet on Monday Jan 14 at 6:30 PM to continue to work on these amendments, and I am hoping to have a resolution to be presented to the Village Board for final approval at our meeting on January 22, 2013.

Photo courtesy: © Yuan Zhang