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Page 1 of 1 <br />Natalie Amos <br />From: Maria Hoey <br />Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 11:55 AM <br />To: Donna Decker; Julie Harryman; Natalie Amos <br />Subject: FW: Hosterman Hawk <br />-----Original Message----- <br />From: Bruce Rodgers <br />Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 11:47 AM <br />To: Maria Hoey <br />Subject: Hosterman Hawk <br />I've never met Jennifer Hosterman and I don't have any opinions on her performance and qualifications as mayor, <br />but I am irritated at the amount of time and energy that the city employees are having to spend on an issue that <br />was generated by someone with a purely political grudge. Hosterman did not violate any existing code or statute <br />because none exist that apply to her situation. Yet she is being forced to apply for a permit just to placate a critic <br />with a personal complaint. His phrasings of "trained-to-kill" and "vivisection of...bunnies" are incorrect and <br />exaggerated for effect. Such raptors are trained to respond to human commands, they kill naturally, and eat their <br />prey to survive. It seems to me that Hosterman's efforts to help the injured bird heal and to eventually return it to <br />the wild are more of a public service than a threat to society. <br />As to the request to "put safety first"; safe from what? I live on Second Street in the middle of Pleasanton. This <br />past spring I was standing at our kitchen window and saw a large hawk sitting in a tree in my neighbor's yard, <br />about 40 feet away. It was eating a bird that it had just caught. I cannot see that Hosterman's actions are going <br />to result in anything happening that isn't already happening naturally. <br />Bruce Rodgers <br />12/5/2007 <br />