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Serious incidents at the city’s dog park could lead to some residents and pets being banned from the location on Main Street Extension.
Last week, Third Ward Councilman James Stoyle questioned the issue involving a black and white husky mix named Vader and a black lab mix named Corvus that happened a month ago. Some claim the husky was left at the park without supervision of the owners.
“I spoke with our dog control officer (Denise Zentz) … and we’re going to address it and see what we can do,” Police Chief Dave Ortolano said. “I know she’s talked to the city attorney (Richard Morrisroe) about some of these issues. If we have issues with someone my advice is they’re warned and if it continues then they are banned from the park and we would charge them with trespassing and we serve them with a notice that if they come back we would charge them with trespass if they don’t learn to control their animal.”
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The Dunkirk Common Council voted 4-0 Tuesday to approve the increases of both garbage pickup and sewer rates in the city of Dunkirk effective immediately. Missing from the vote was First Ward Councilman Don Williams, the biggest advocate against the fee increases.
“I voted against these because I wanted to kill these without a public hearing,” Williams told the OBSERVER following the Jan. 5 meeting. “Voting against them shows that I’m both not in favor in any way of them as well as keeping them from moving forward to the public hearing stage. I have been against the tipping fee and sewage rate increases since the beginning and have mentioned it many times at the budget meetings, I don’t think that it’s fair to single individuals and seniors living in a house that don’t produce a lot of trash or use a lot of water; I don’t feel we should penalize them. Until the city comes up with something more fair I will remain against this.”
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Local laws to raise the tipping fee by $52 annually per household and the sewage fee by a 25 cents per thousand gallons used in the city of Dunkirk were tabled pending a public hearing at the Common Council meeting held Tuesday.
In a 3-1 vote for both municipal laws, the council elected to hear the public at the next council meeting Jan. 19 at 5:20 p.m. The single vote of opposition belonged to First Ward Councilman Don Williams who has been adamant against the raises of both fees in the city.
“I voted against these because I wanted to kill these without a public hearing,” Williams told the OBSERVER following the meeting. “Voting against them shows that I’m both not in favor in any way of them as well as keeping them from moving forward to the public hearing stage.”