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Resident urges tougher barking-dog ordinance; council asks attorney to draft proposal
Summary
Resident Joyce Minnick told the Middletown Town Council she has been troubled by a neighbor’s barking dogs and urged the town to adopt a stricter ordinance modeled on Pendleton’s; the council directed the town attorney to draft proposed revisions for the next meeting.
Joyce Minnick told the Middletown Town Council on May 15 that she has had ongoing problems with a neighbor’s barking dogs and asked the council to adopt a stricter barking-dog ordinance similar to Pendleton’s.
Town Council President Jake Smith directed Town Attorney Joel Harvey to study the Pendleton ordinance alongside Middletown’s current ordinance and to draft proposed updates for consideration at the council’s next meeting. Minnick recommended that the ordinance specify duration thresholds for what constitutes a disturbance and that fines be large enough to encourage compliance.
Harvey was assigned to prepare draft language; the minutes show no vote on ordinance language at this meeting. The council’s direction is procedural—that the attorney return with a draft for formal consideration at a future meeting.
