For more than forty years, Fulton has had an animal control officer. It was to give the residents someone to call if they were having trouble and needed help with feral cats, raccoons, possums or skunks. That no longer is the case. The current mayor has decided that Fulton no longer has a need for one.
When you call the police to get help with a varmint problem, be prepared to find out you are now on your own. When you get tired of feral cat dumps in your yard, or possums and raccoons digging through your trash before it is picked up, or your dwelling fills up with skunk stench at 1:30 in the morning, please call the mayor, Deana Michaels and make her aware that there is still a need for an animal control officer. We need one now!
-David Yeatts
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Dave…sorry for the problem…but she is a banker …all about getting new business in the city to direct funds to pathfinder bank…she is worse than the old mayor…at least when he lied to us he was convincing…she how ever is not good at it….i thought she would be the one to make the change….was i ever wrong…oswego is the hot spot…billy knows as he is a young man..he knows where he wants oswego…on the map….not in the cess pool which is i think your problem dave….the WHOLE CITY STINKS…not just the skunks…
Like I said before ,The Games Have Begun.
It’s not just the mayor who is lost. Still no sprinkler park. What is the update on lake cess pool???. No one speaks about it…. What about the vacant Mann’s contracting building??. What a eye sore. The old holley drive motel is still there . Oswego mayor has it going on… That guy is sharp. I make a motion to let the Fulton mayor be dog warden. Or better yet. Donnie Patrick,
Same people always comment about the mayor, must have some kind of grudge. I also believe that the animal control officer was eliminated prior to her taking charge. Forgive me if I am wrong.
Henry, you are forgiven, the 2020 budget calls for a cost of $30,000 for an animal control officer. It was budgeted for but where did the money go if we don’t have one. This is a service that our tax dollars should be going for. We have to many needs and not enough money. Oh what shall we do…
you are wrong. Dave Waddington was our officer until he retired this year.
In one five week span last summer at Pratt and Park in the fourth ward, our animal control officer trapped twenty five skunks. I wonder how many were taken out of the other wards and how big is the problem now?
maybe we should trap them ourselves and then let them loose in her ward so she will know just what we are going through and it is not just the 4th ward
So it could possible since Waddington retired this year and with Covid there have been known staff decreases due to staffing at locations (workplaces can only have 50% etc) that the position just has not been filled yet? Maybe?
Perhaps the lake dredging has not been going on because of COVI-19. Ever think of that? Bringing business into the city is a bad thing? Maybe the trash you leave outside is inviting the skunks to your house? Give her some time to make some improvements people.
how much time until the next election???????