Open Space Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2014 08 13

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Open Space Advisory Board th July 9, 2014 decide whether these vehicles are exempt from the motorized vehicles ban as they gain in popularity. Motorized wheel chairs and scooters are allowed. Chief Hayes announced that there will be an open house at the Police Station on Thursday, Sept 11th, from 12-6pm. At 6pm they will begin the formal swearing-in ceremony for the officers. On Sunday, July 20th, off duty police officers will be working at Chilis Restaurant in Louisville as volunteers to collect for Special Olympics. Missy extended the OSABs sincere gratitude to Chief Hayes for attending the meeting, introducing himself, and being open and proactive about open space issues. IX. Discussion:OSAB-Requested Revisions to the Draft Coyote Management Plan Presented by Catherine Jepson, Open Space Specialist. Catherine highlighted the changes she made in the draft Coyote Management Plan as a response to OSABs comments during the previous meeting. Catherine also reviewed her and Embers conversation with Chief Hayes. Police want to help with coyote reporting and high-intensity hazing. The police welcome training about recognizing aggressive behavior in coyotes, etc. They also agreed to support the creation of a coyote data repository at open space. Open space staff will investigate unintentional feeding. Open space staff and the police department will investigate reports of intentional feeding together, since ticketing may be warranted. Chief Hayes suggested additional information in the incident report form, and Catherine incorporated his suggestions on pg. 21 (of the packet). Staff submitted the plan to State Parks and Wildlife and to Project Coyote for review. Catherine will present the Final changes to OSAB in August. Helen asked why there was a 2-year interval for public reporting of coyote data. Missy suggested that averaging over 2 years might lose some fine-scale annual resolution, such as population/activity dips like the city seems to be experiencing in 2014. Ember mentioned that the coyote incident reports were being logged in ArcView, so the locations are marked (along with severity). Shes hoping that the city I.T. department might be able to help create a citizen-interactive webpage where people could see incidents/attacks as dots on map, and thus access the data at whatever granularity they want. Project Coyote may share a graphic explaining the futility of lethal coyote control for use in the report. Linda asked a general question of whether coyote attacks on outdoor cats are considered a problem by this report. Catherine suggested that coyotes attacking unattended cats are a natural phenomenon and that there isnt an official city response. Ember shared that everyone in land management along the Front Range seems to be in agreement on that point. Helen asked about the numbering system and the ordering on the front and back of the Coyote Report Plan. She also recommended Google Forms as being an easy way to make forms.