***ALERT*** Little Rock, Arkansas

Originally this alert was back in May, and it has been an ongoing issue since that time.

Continue to send your polite and respectful opposition to breed specific legislation to the Little Rock officials listed below. Please offer viable ablernatives, as well as educational materials for their consideration.


LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS CONTACT INFORMATION

Mayor Mark Stodola
500 West Markham, Room 203
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201
Phone: (501) 371-4510
Fax: (501) 371-4498
EMAIL: mayor@littlerock.org
Staff Contact: Shayla Beebe
sbeebe@littlerock.org


Bruce T. Moore, City Manager
Little Rock City Hall
500 West Markham Street, Room 203
Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: (501) 371-4510
CityManager@littlerock.org

Nancy Wood, City Clerk
500 West Markham Street, Room 200
Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: (501) 371-6803
nwood@littlerock.org

Nataki K. Blocker, Assistant City Clerk
500 West Markham Street, Room 200
Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: (501) 244-5494
nblocker@littlerock.org


Current Little Rock Board of Directors
Name Position
Erma Hendrix
Ward 1
Ken Richardson
Ward 2
Stacy Hurst
Ward 3
Brad Cazort
Ward 4
Michael Keck
Ward 5
Doris Wright
Ward 6
B.J. (Brenda) Wyrick
Ward 7
Dr. Dean Kumpuris
Position 8
Gene Fortson
Position 9
Joan Adcock
Position 10

Tracy Roark, Manager
City of Little Rock Animal Services
3800 South Chester Street
Little Rock, AR 72206
(501) 376-3060
troark@littlerock.org



Animal Services Advisory Board

Pam Adcock
(Ward 7)
6205 Hinkson Road
Little Rock, AR 72209
Phone: (501) 568-3398
Term Expires: 11-28-07

Kimberly Steed Landrum
(At-Large - Ward 3)
1409 Pine Valley Circle
Little Rock, AR 72207
Phone (501) 664-6402
Term Expires: 11-28-08
Angela L. Leake
(Ward 3)
5423 Edgewood Road
Little Rock, AR 72207
Phone: (501) 663-0042
Term Expires: 11-28-07 Jean McNeil
(Ward 4)
34 Tallyho Lane
Little Rock, AR 72227
Phone: (501) 225-2737
Term Expires: 11-28-07

Barbara Lensing
(Ward 3)
722 N. Harrison Street
Little Rock, AR 72205
Phone: (501) 663-1762
Email: bllensing@hotmail.com
Term Expires: 11-28-08
John Seng
(At-Large - Ward 6)
2303 Ridge Park Drive
Little Rock, AR
Phone: (501) 562-6410
Email: john.seng@dds.criver.com
Term Expires: 11-28-07

Kaye Risser, Chair
(Ward 6)
10 Brookridge Cove
Little Rock, AR 72205
Phone: (501) 224-5383
Email: rwco@aristotle.net
Term Expires: 11-28-07
Dr. Bob Hale
(Physician Veterinary Medicine)
Term Expires: 11-28-08

Joan Adcock (Ex-Officio)
(Little Rock City Board of Directors)
500 West Markham Street, Room 203
Little Rock, AR 72201
(501) 371-4510
board@littlerock.org
Term Expires: 12-31-2008


Pit-bull regulations make LR board meeting agenda
BY KRISTIN NETTERSTROM
Posted on Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Little Rock officials hope to regulate pit bulls and classify them as a dangerous breed, but they stop short of banning the dogs in an ordinance the Board of Directors will discuss today.

Little Rock is alone in allowing breeds commonly known as pit bulls inside the city limits after Jacksonville passed a ban in May. Sherwood and Maumelle have long banned pit bulls, while North Little Rock enacted a ban in 2004.

Under the proposed ordinance, Little Rock residents still will be allowed to have pit bulls, and new residents can move with their dogs into the city after the ordinance passes. But they will have to register them with Animal Services, pose for a photograph with the dog, sterilize the animal and pay an additional fee to have a dangerous breed permit.

Owners would have 90 days to comply with the new regulations if the ordinance passes. The proposed legislation also would require homeowners to post a city-issued sticker every year on a window visible from the street notifying onlookers of a pit bull’s presence and microchip the animal with identifying information.

The dog would have to be kept indoors or in an outside enclosure. If outside the enclosure, the animal would have to wear a muzzle. If a registered dog were to bite someone, the owner’s dangerous breed license could be revoked.

The ordinance, which limits owners to two dogs per household, would apply to American pit bull terriers, Staffordshire terriers, American Staffordshire terriers and any mix of those breeds.

“I don’t think [the regulations ] are too extensive. I think they will affect the animals that need to be affected,” said Kaye Risser, chairman of the Animal Services Advisory Board. Risser also served on a mayorappointed committee that came up with the regulations.

Pit bulls made up roughly 34 percent of all the dog attacks on humans in the city last year, according to the Little Rock Animal Services Division. That amounted to 47 out of 135 dog bites, a rate that continued this year.

City Manager Bruce Moore said he didn’t expect city directors to vote on the ordinance tonight. Even so, it’s unlikely the language would change, he said.

The legislation originally required liability insurance for dog attacks, something Pine Bluff wrote into its 2006 pit bull ordinance, but that won’t be in the final draft of the Little Rock ordinance. Moore removed the insurance clause because he thought it would be hard to enforce.

Dozens of pit bull owners attended public meetings over the past six months and campaigned against an outright ban.


http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/209604/