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Marlborough committee advances draft ordinance banning second‑generation anticoagulant rodenticides on city property
Summary
The Legislative & Legal Affairs Committee reviewed a proposed ordinance to ban second‑generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) on city property and moved to advance the draft with amendments and a request that the solicitor place it in proper legal form.
The Legislative & Legal Affairs Committee reviewed a proposed ordinance March 31 that would add a new article to Marlborough’s Code of Ordinances (Chapter 2.50, Animals) prohibiting the use of second‑generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) on city property.
Councilor Preciado introduced the proposal and said the Board of Health Director Dinwiddie and Conservation Commissioner Priscilla Ryder support the ordinance with an amendment deleting a section that would have permitted emergency waivers for SGAR use on city property.
Alyssa Giacinto, a Marlborough wildlife rehabilitator representing Giacinto Wildlife and Rehabilitation Center, presented the harms she attributes to…
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