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Resident cites data saying enforcement, not new ordinance, reduced nuisance dog incidents
Summary
A Gun Barrel City resident told the council that targeted enforcement and expanded animal-control coverage drove an 88% drop in reported nuisance dog incidents on her street, and urged the council to improve metrics rather than adopt new broad ordinances.
Amaris Faith, a resident, told the Gun Barrel City Council on Tuesday that targeted enforcement — not a new animal-control ordinance — produced a sharp drop in nuisance-dog incidents on her street.
“Another old adage goes alongside it: ‘what you can measure, you can fix,’” Faith said during the citizens-communications portion of the June 24 meeting. Faith said city records show 33 incidents of stray or nuisance dogs on her street from Jan. 25 to March 19, 18 incidents in the next 53-day…
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