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Parkersburg City Council members, from left, Sharon Kuhl, Roger Brown, Mike Reynolds, Andrew Borkowski and Robert Moore are seen during Tuesday\u2019s regular meeting at the Municipal Building. Councilwoman Wendy Tuck and Councilman Zak Huffman joined for the Parkersburg City Council meeting over the phone on Tuesday. Councilman Chris Rexroad was absent. (<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPARKERSBURG \u2013 The first reading of an ordinance banning the feeding of animals on city property was approved Tuesday by Parkersburg City Council after two amendments adding stricter guidelines.
\nThe amended ordinance passed 6-2, with Councilman Chris Rexroad absent and Councilwoman Wendy Tuck and Councilman Zak Huffman participating by phone.
\nThe amendments, both proposed by Councilwoman Sharon Kuhl, expanded the prohibition from city parks to all city property and established a fine of $100 for the first offense, $250 for the second and $500 for third and subsequent offenses.
\nKuhl suggested making the ban apply to sidewalks as well, but Tuck said that could take away the rights of homeowners if sidewalks are included.
\n\u201cI understand public property and maintaining public safety, but I would be hesitant to restrict the right of homeowners to do what they want on the sidewalks that they control,\u201d Tuck said.
\nKuhl said she wanted to make the ordinance more strict \u201cbecause we\u2019re dealing with safety and public health.\u201d
\nParkersburg resident Alisa Prince expressed her support for the ordinance during the meeting\u2019s public forum.
\n\u201cWe all want our parks, sidewalks, and recreational areas to remain clean, safe and accessible for all residents,\u201d she said.
\nMayor Tom Joyce agreed that there were concerns about sanitation and public health as a result of animals being fed in the parks, pointing to the feeding of cats in Southwood Park.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve asked these folks to not do this \u2026 you start messing with Mother Nature and you\u2019re going to see the unintended consequences,\u201d he said.
\nCouncil unanimously confirmed Joyce\u2019s reappointments of Wayne Waldeck and Mike Williams to the Downtown Facade Committee for terms expiring Jan. 10, 2026, and Jan. 8, 2028, respectively. The vote also corrected the terms of Austin Young and Sydney Weber to expire July 8, 2028, instead of 2029.
\nThe proposed allocations of the Community Development Block Grant and HOME Fund were approved in a 5-3 vote with Tuck, Huffman and Council President Mike Reynolds opposed.
\nA few members of the public voiced their concerns that the ordinance needed to be looked over and revised before passing due to a lack of representation in Districts 4 and 5 on the Finance Committee.
\nFollowing the regular meeting, council met as the Urban Renewal Authority with two agenda items. Carol Webb\u2019s application to purchase 1509 Andrew St. for $500 was not taken up because no motion was made.
\nNo motion was made on Chasity Murphy\u2019s application for the URA to purchase 320 10th St. Kuhl recommended she put the lot up for sale before asking the city to buy it.
\nThe next Parkersburg City Council meeting is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 12 in council chambers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parkersburg City Council members, from left, Sharon Kuhl, Roger Brown, Mike Reynolds, Andrew Borkowski and Robert Moore are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5007,128,130,129,5006],"class_list":{"0":"post-5475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-penalty-claws-parkersburg-city-council-approves-first-reading-of-ban-on-feeding-animals-on-city-property","9":"tag-reading-city","10":"tag-reading-city-headlines","11":"tag-reading-city-news","12":"tag-zweekendnewsletter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}