I strongly oppose continued funding of the Ann Arbor deer kill. The city has expended hundreds of thousands of dollars since 2015 to what end? The city has no objective metrics to measure program “success”, so we’ll never know. Unless you want to build a wall or moat around the city you will always have deer migrating in and out. As other communities have discovered, the “quick fix” lethal option is a false option and a never-ending proposition to a perceived problem. The amount of taxpayer dollars proposed for deer killing could be better spent on real problems this city faces– the dioxane plume creeping closer to our water supply and lack of affordable housing, to name a few. I urge Mayor Taylor and city council members to put an end to this wasteful program that brings guns and violence to our parks and diminishes our community’s reputation as a place of tolerance and peace. We are better than this. Margaret M. Sadoff, Ward 2 Resident
I strongly oppose continued funding of the Ann Arbor deer kill. The city has expended hundreds of thousands of dollars since 2015 to what end? The city has no objective metrics to measure program “success”, so we’ll never know. Unless you want to build a wall or moat around the city you will always have deer migrating in and out. As other communities have discovered, the “quick fix” lethal option is a false option and a never-ending proposition to a perceived problem. The amount of taxpayer dollars proposed for deer killing could be better spent on real problems this city faces– the dioxane plume creeping closer to our water supply and lack of affordable housing, to name a few. I urge Mayor Taylor and city council members to put an end to this wasteful program that brings guns and violence to our parks and diminishes our community’s reputation as a place of tolerance and peace. We are better than this. Margaret M. Sadoff, Ward 2 Resident