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File #: 204172    Version: 1
Type: Order Status: Approved
File created: 9/12/2017 In control: City Council
On agenda: 9/14/2017 Final action: 2/14/2019
Enactment date: 9/14/2017 Enactment #: 204172
Title: That the Superintendent of Inspectional Services report to this Board on the use of raptors (hawks, owls, etc.) to control rats and whether they might work here, and on the use of poisons to control rats and whether they also kill raptors.
Sponsors: Mark Niedergang

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That the Superintendent of Inspectional Services report to this Board on the use of raptors (hawks, owls, etc.) to control rats and whether they might work here, and on the use of poisons to control rats and whether they also kill raptors.

 

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Official Text

That the Superintendent of Inspectional Services report to this Board on the use of raptors (hawks, owls, etc.) to control rats in other cities, such as San Francisco, and whether such programs might be viable in Somerville, and also report on whether poisons currently in use to kill rats are also killing raptors.