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Meeting Name: Rodent Issues Special Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 4/8/2019 5:30 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Committee Room – 2nd Floor – City Hall
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207572 3207572OrderThat the Director of Inspectional Services bait the sewers around the intersection of Highland Avenue and Lowell Street, then down the east side of Lowell Street to Hudson Street and along the north side of Hudson Street from Lowell Street to 80 Hudson Street.Work completed  Action details Not available
207379 4207379OrderThat the Commissioner of Public Works explain to this Board the process for procuring, maintaining, and repairing or replacing rodent-proof trash barrels.Work completed  Action details Not available
207380 4207380ResolutionThat the Administration work with this Board to consider strengthening rodent eradication as part of building demolition, potentially using as an example the ordinance of Nassau County, Long Island, which requires proof of eradication before allowing demolition to proceed.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
200246 5200246ResolutionThat the Administration request rodent sightings be placed as an icon on the Commonwealth Connect app.Work completed  Action details Not available
200628 5200628OrderThat the Supervisor of Inspectional Services consider increasing fines for businesses in violation of rodent prevention measures.Work completed  Action details Not available
203792 6203792ResolutionThat the Administration utilize the drug Senestech to sterilize rats as one of many measures to control the rodent population.Work completed  Action details Not available