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Galesburg City Council in a work session Monday discussed potential partnerships involved in a community center. City Manager Gerald Smith says that the city has been reaching out to non-profits and community groups to meet in the last few months. Parks and Recreation Director Elizabeth Varner says 34 groups were invited and 21 scheduled meetings. Some of those groups include Bridgeway, Discovery Depot, Galesburg Art Centers, Community Hygiene Pantry, the YMCA and Salvation Army, Varner says talking points in the meeting included using space, partnership ideas, and identifying duplication of services. Almost all organizations they met with would like to at least participate in information sharing in the center. Examples of this would be having brochures about their organization in the center. Only four of 21 expressed concern about programming conflicts or duplication. Classrooms, meeting spaces, community room, auditorium and gym were among the most desired kinds of spaces for groups
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Galesburg City Council is opposed to a charity harvest to control the city's geese population. The Council made that clear this week in an informal straw poll taken during a work session. Parks and Recreation Director Elizabeth Varner and State Director for the USDA Wildlife Services Scott Beckerman presented the council with options for dealing with the geese population. Varner and Beckerman say that a charity harvest would be the most effective technique, but all Council members cited resident feedback and humanity as why they opposed the harvest. The council directed staff to continue with methods such as egg oiling and deploying cutouts that scare away geese. Varner says some reasons for culling the goose population are an accumulation of feces and feathers, aggressive, nuisance conflicts, reduced water quality of the lake, and increased algae growth. Some Council members, like Larry Cox, wanted to try the egg-oiling for a few years and then possibly budget for a charity harve
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Galesburg City Council has a work session on Monday where among other things they will discuss measures to control the goose population at Lake Storey, Lincoln Park, and Bunker Links. The goose population has grown according to a memo from Parks and Recreation Director Elizabeth Varner to the City Manager. Varner says the main complaint is the amount of feces as well as concern for water quality. Scott Beckerman, State Director for the USDA Wildlife Services, offered a variety of options for goose control at a Council work session on Jan. 30. One of the techniques Varner thinks would be reasonable and effective is a charity harvest: where geese are professionally captured during molting and then processed for meat donation to food banks. A charity harvest would cost the city about $6,000 and the city would have to hold a public meeting beforehand. Varner says even after a charity harvest the city would need to continue to employ as many population control techniques as possible. Mayor
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