HomeMy WebLinkAbout96-098Resolution No. 96-98
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT
TOWNSEND ADOPTING A HERBICIDES/PESTICIDES POLICY FOR
CITY PUBLIC LANDS AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY
The City Council of the City of Port Townsend, Washington, does resolve as follOws:
WHEREAS, the City has not used herbicides/pesticides, as defined in the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 136 et seq., since 1978 to maintain its
roadsides, but has instead adopted a variety of other management practices, such as those set forth
in the Ecological Control of Roadside Vegetation Report, dated October 24, 1979; by Dr. Roger
del Moral; and
WHEREAS, the City is committed to alternative practices to herbicides/pesticide use; and
WHEREAS, the City has discouraged herbicide/pesticide use on public lands except in
very specific instances as referenced below:
1. Path maintenance on graveled park paths;
2. Yellow-jacket nests posing a danger to City workers and/or the public;
3. Port Townsend Municipal Golf Course to the extent governed by a separate lease
or contract; and
4. Under asphalt for paths, parking lots, and paving of streets, to prevent vegetation
from growing through asphalt; and
WItEREAS, when herbicide/pesticide use is allowed on public property, the City typically
requires appropriate notice such as posting the site 24 hours in advance of the application and for
24 hours after the application or for as long as the chemicals remain active, so that the general
public may freely choose to use the facilities or allow their children to do so; except that notice
is not required when an emergency exists such as under No. 2 above, or when the use is solely
at a construction site such as under No. 4 above; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to formalize its herbicide/pesticide use policy,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council for the City of Port
Townsend that the City does not encourage the use of herbicides/pesticides on its various
properties and in its various maintenance programs, and widely discourages their use, and will
work with other entities and .utilities whose responsibility it is to maintain public property and
easements to widely discourage the use of any herbicides/pesticides when alternatives can be
found.
ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Port Townsend and signed by the Mayor
on this 17th day of June, 1996.
Ju~e,.McCulloch, Mayor
Attest:
Vc4~ Franzl Act~ing
to Form:
dMahan, City Attorney
06/17/96 CITY ATTORNEY§Res\Pesticid.doc}
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