Post by bamapitbullmom on Feb 5, 2009 8:41:20 GMT -5
www.scnow.com/scp/news/local/article/scranton_resident_asks_council_for_pit_bull_ban/31149/
Scranton resident asks council for pit bull ban
By Charles Tomlinson
Lake City News & Post Editor
Published: February 2, 2009
SCRANTON — Scranton town officials said they plan to hold discussions with Florence County leaders after a resident asked for the town to ban pit bulls.
“Your concerns are our concerns,” councilwoman Marie L. Eaddy said during Monday’s town council meeting. “We will do our best.”
Ernestine Haselden, who lives on Railroad Avenue, said the person who lives behind her has four or five “pit bull-type dogs” who charge at her fence “just as hard as they can to get to me.”
She asked council members to consider an ordinance that would ban pit bull-type dogs as well as any other breeds they see fit. She said that if any pets are grandfathered in, the owners should have to hold a $100,000 liability insurance policy on the animals.
Most people living around her are elderly, she said.
“We should be able to live our last years in some sort of peace and tranquility in our own yards, not bothering anybody else,” she said.
Mayor Pro Tem Thomas Knotts, who presided over the meeting, said the county handles planning and zoning for the town. He told citizens that he planned to call county council Chairman K.G. “Rusty” Smith on Wednesday morning to discuss the issue.
Scranton resident asks council for pit bull ban
By Charles Tomlinson
Lake City News & Post Editor
Published: February 2, 2009
SCRANTON — Scranton town officials said they plan to hold discussions with Florence County leaders after a resident asked for the town to ban pit bulls.
“Your concerns are our concerns,” councilwoman Marie L. Eaddy said during Monday’s town council meeting. “We will do our best.”
Ernestine Haselden, who lives on Railroad Avenue, said the person who lives behind her has four or five “pit bull-type dogs” who charge at her fence “just as hard as they can to get to me.”
She asked council members to consider an ordinance that would ban pit bull-type dogs as well as any other breeds they see fit. She said that if any pets are grandfathered in, the owners should have to hold a $100,000 liability insurance policy on the animals.
Most people living around her are elderly, she said.
“We should be able to live our last years in some sort of peace and tranquility in our own yards, not bothering anybody else,” she said.
Mayor Pro Tem Thomas Knotts, who presided over the meeting, said the county handles planning and zoning for the town. He told citizens that he planned to call county council Chairman K.G. “Rusty” Smith on Wednesday morning to discuss the issue.
This is dangerously close to me. Scranton is all of 50 miles from where I live and if this passes we'll be next... 
I look forward to learning much here