This is wrong! You are wasting money! The only thing you will do by not allowing hunting in Solon is promise that you will spend at least $100,000 every year culling the deer population! Open public hunting land or make it an archery only area. Once again this is the government wasting money! Plenty of local hunters including myself would love an opportunity to hunt these animals in this area. Many of us even donate the meet back to local food shelters! Do not sign a contract to waste our money and a possible food source in a time like this. Think outside of Solon for once!

It is NOT "public hunting land" it is a densely populated urban environment. Take your deadly weapons somewhere where people don't live. We can't afford hunting "accidents" in our city.

It funny that they can leave a carass in the medium strip cover with wood chips, yet they left a carass on the top of the Harper Road ramp for three months while the maggots made waste of it. Spending some of that 100K for pickup would have been worth it. I'm sure some of our council members saw it every day. Another area to spend it would be aerial photos. The notion that a dog warden can count deer is absurded. Spend the leftover on getting the Solon School system back on top of the ratings. It's great to have blank checks

Hasn't Solon already spent a million in taxpayer money culling deer to prove that the deer population will rebound if you only cull??? Congratulation Solon council you have shown compensatory rebound is true. What a bunch of morons!!!!!

WHEN ARE PEOPLE GOING TO HEAR THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW THE USDA PLANS TO KILL THE DEER??? THEY WILL USE "NET AND BOLT," WHICH MEANS CATCHING IN NETS, THEN REPEATEDLY ATTEMTING -- WHILE MORE OFTEN THAN NOT MISSING -- THE INTENDED FRONTAL LOBE AREA AND INSTEAD HITTING DEER IN THEIR EYES AND OTHER PAINFUL AREAS WHILE THEY VIOLENTLY THRASH ABOUT IN NETS. THE CAPTIVE BOLT WAS DESIGNED FOR USE ON LIVESTOCK/FACTORY FARM ANIMALS (ANOTHER WORLD OF CRUELTY WHERE CAPTIVE BOLT IS NOT ALWAYS EFFECTIVE/PAINLESS/QUICK). DEER WILL BE TERRIFIED WHILE REPEATEDLY STABBED IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES BEFORE GETTING THE RIGHT SPOT. ONLY BOW HUNTING, WITH ITS 50 PERCENT MISSED TARGET AVERAGE, COMES CLOSE. TELL THE TRUTH! TELL THE TRUTH! TELL THE TRUTH! WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL THE TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lucy, I read the agreement twice and no mention is made of captive bolt. Apendix A indicates they are going to use the bait and shoot technique just like White Buffalo. What's upsetting for now is the City's unwillingness to hold off on their pilot program until after they see the outcome of the election. Kind of a slap in the face for all the people that signed the petition, whether they're for hunting and culling, or not. Personal feelings not withstanding, I don't have a problem with them making contingency plans as long as they respect the spirit of the petition and hold off on any actions until we know if the issue passes or fails.

Heinz, thank you for the "TRUTH"...above is the kind of posting i refer too..!!..

There are non-lethal options. Why is killing always deemed the ONLY option? Why are residents wishes/petitioners/tax-payers being ignored? $128,000 is A LOT of money, tax-payers money. I thought this was going to ballot?

"Why is killing always deemed the ONLY option?", Mrrh.
Perhaps because of all the options, killing provides the quickest and most measurable, albeit short lived, results. Killing provides a certain measure of instant gratification to those who clamor for some sort of solution to the deer problem. Non-lethal measures would not produce the instant results that are needed to justify the huge expenditure of money. Non-lethal methods would require a long term commitment. Since political careers are measured in 4 years increments, the "quick fix" is more likely to get you re-elected than the long term program.

OH, and enough with the B.S. about feeding the hungry. Solon's not killing deer to feed the hungry people in Cleveland. Solon's killing deer because a few people feel threatened by them. Donating the venison to the food bank is just an excuse to try to make us feel warm and fuzzy about the killing. If you want to help the food bank, just give them the $128K and let them buy what they need. We'll all go home feeling better.

Year after years after years people still sit there saying "we need to 'thin' the deer". Gee, doesn't sound quiet strange especially when you google "whitetails, deer hunt" they are the most popular animals to kill for sports and amusement by bunch of sick perverted mental case (recreational hunters). Whitetails are the biggest money maker and the killing (hunting) industry knows this so they continue to produce deer via compensatory rebound effect, supplement feeding, food plots, baiting etc. Hunting does not "reduce" deer number maybe for a month or two until the babies comes to compensate for the loss. More food availability, the does will have twins and triplets rather then if there was not enough food there be only one sometimes none for the fetus abort itself or the womb cannot carry the embryo thus no babies. The Division of Natural Resources and other state wildlife agencies knows this darn well and ensures there will be enough deer in their state to lure the hunters from others state to come to theirs. When you read their "harvest report" (yeah sure, like they are plants you just pluck off the ground) the website often speak of how well the "harvest" was and hoping that they get just as well even better one the following year.

That way when the other psychopath wildlife killers hears of this they will travel to that part of the state to do their heartless sadistic act onto the innocent sentient beings and their DNR will rake in their blood dollars http://mathew5-7.blogspot.com/2009/08/this-is-why-we-have-too-many-deer.html

Psychopath and Serial killers Profile are exactly the same as Sports Hunters Profile.- READ AND YOU WILL AGREE!

http://mathew5-7.blogspot.com/2011/06/psychopath-and-serial-killers-profile.html

Sport's wildlife terrorist continue hide behind euphemism, whitewash and lies. I was a big reader and still am on murder mystery but one of my interest was about serial killers and it wasn't until I got into the subject of hunting I found such similarities though it did not surprise me at all. How do human found joy out of killing? How do they especially the bowhunters finds that to let the animals drown in their own blood or die in their own poison where some death can take up to 12 hours can do the high fives with their fancy video camera so they can watch the killing and suffering for their own self gratification and to share with other sickos out there. Remember, they only make up 4-5% of the American population and the female to male ratio to serial killers is also very similar. These humans rather then go after people who have a voice goes after the voiceless. In the forest and during hunting season there is no "anti-cruelty law", they are exempt from it. "How nice" huh?

That means any humans who are into cruelty whether to a women, blacks, children, pets but can't get away with it they get a hunting license. You can do whatever you wish even nechrophelia which I have heard recreational hunters do.

You held my intersest up to the point where you mention nechrophelia. Ewwwwww!

Seriously, you should keep the rhetoric focused on the issue, that is, whether or not hunting, a legal activity, should be allowed in Solon. Argue the facts, introducing religious dogma into what should be a morality and ethics debate at best and a dollars and sense debate at the very least, is just going to inflame things more than they already are. But other than that, you make some good points.