City Council member Eugene Brown, in a Sunday memo to his colleagues, urged bringing the long-running chicken question to resolution when it meets tonight.
Whether to allow city residents to raise hens in their yards has absorbed hours of council meeting time over the past two months, and Brown wrote that that may have given the council an unfavorable image among the taxpaying and voting public.
In part, Brown wrote: "Apparently, [Monday night] our attorney's office will present a compromise to us on some of these issues which have been discussed. This is good for although this is an important item,it may only affect a very small number of our citizens, and we also have more important items to deal with, especially in this economy. If at all possible, I believe we should reach a decision on the hen issue tomorrow night. After a while the public may ascertain that we are only engaged in trivia pursuits, the "fiddling while Rome burned" syndrome. So, regardless if we fry it, scramble it, or poach it, tomorrow night we need to pass it,or close the door on the chicken coop debate."
The council meets at 7 p.m.
