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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSubmittal-Nancy Benovaich-Letters Regarding PeafowlSubmitted into the public record f r ite (s) 6 Z on City Clerk March 16, 2017 Peacock Meeting in Conference Room — Pan American Drive 4:30 pm Mayor Thomas Regalodo Asst. — Erick Duran City Attorney Victoria Mendez Asst/ City Attorney — Rachael Dooley District 4 — Francis Suarez City Manager Daniel Alfonso Members of the community from Central and Northern Grove. Attendance list upon request. ()in- Soh4"o�-Num 0e�oao.,c�,- 1t1-\ t i5 \U&tP�o.�u�,� Submitted into the public record f r item(s) r. ti i ll f City Clerk March 16, 2017 To Whom It May Concern: I am writing you today on behalf of my company, All Star Animal Removal. I have an individual that owns 13 acres in the Redlands that has many other birds on the property and is very interested in having 50-70 peacocks on his land. Our company is only for the purpose of catch and release of the birds. The individual has agreed that anyone from the City of Miami in authority may call him to verify the validity of his offer. The price for the two weeks involved in netting the birds and transportation of them is $2,000.00. We will guarantee the birds will be humanly caught and transported. We had been asked by Nancy Benouaich, President of Bay Heights to help in this endeavor. Transporting these birds to open acreage will avoid more peacocks being killed, maimed, and tying up traffic. These birds procreate voraciously and in a very short number of years have left their mark, by scratching cars, breaking pool screens, breaking gutters, pooping on roofs, sidewalks, driveways, and yards. The poop of these birds, carry many diseases and have made dogs extremely sick from eating it off the sidewalks. The birds sleep in large trees and leave their mark in the morning everywhere below. Some residents have no garage and must park under the trees. Many have complained of the screaming they do during the evening, night, and early morning. We are willing to help with the City of Miami permission. Sincerely, Omar Gomez, employee All Star Animal Removal 305-495-2118 Submitted into the public record foi it m(s) on 2,1I?lthtp . City Clerk Dooley, Rachel S. From: Fraker, Rebecca <Rebecca.Fraker@MyFWC.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 12:24 PM To: Dooley, Rachel S. Cc: Scotten, Angeline Subject: Peafowl information Good Morning Rachel, Thank you for reaching out to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission with your questions about peafowl in Miami. Peafowl are not a native species to Florida, and are not protected under any state or federal regulation. Peafowl are considered domestic animals and therefore, regulatory action is not needed for a Homeowners Association or residents to take possession of peacocks. Generally, domestic animals are under the jurisdiction of local governments. FWC does not encourage the release of domesticated animals into the wild, and cannot prevent private landowners from lawfully removing nuisance animals from their private property. I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Rebecca Fraker Wildlife Assistance Biologist Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission 8535 Northlake Blvd. West Palm Beach, FL 33412 (561) 625-5122 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission i' 1yFWNC.com Please report wildlife law violations to Wildlife Alert 888-404-3922. 1 Submitted into the public record for ite (s) on Z� i 3 "c,O ddi • City Clerk Good Afternoon Everyone, I would first like to introduce myself to you. My name is Nancy Benouaich and I am president of the Bay Heights Improvement Association. If you are wondering how you received this email, I have to tell you that one of your members forwarded your information in the hopes that we can combine forces to have the City of Miami take action to reduce the population of peafowl. In the last three years I have sent emails on behalf of my Bay Heights neighbors as well as other Coconut Grove residents showing the commissioner's office just how many are tired of nothing being done to reduce th population. It's amazing how much more respect you are shown when you are not a lone wolf crying in the wilderness. LOL For this reason, I have emailed you today in hopes that we can together solve this problem. The last email I received yesterday was to ask me where the peafowl could be relocated to. So, I need your help. We need each of you to make calls and find out: 1. Who will help to catch and transport the birds as humanly as possible. 2. What parties will be thrilled to take the birds as well as the number wanted. I have had many emails going back and forth with Commissioner Russell's office for the last few days. It all began after I had a meeting with the Chief of Staff of Mayor Suarez. I was asked to talk to Commissioner Russell and see if he would co-sponsor my amendments to the city code the reason being that we are in his district. Attached, you will find the City of Miami Code regarding birds. Russell's office tried to pass me off on to the county but City Attorney, Rachael Dooley had already received a letter from Florida Fish and Wildlife stating that peafowl is not native to Florida and therefore, they have no authority over this bird. She is now researching the county code that she will forward to me. According to my information last year regarding ruisance animals on your property in the county, you have that right to have it removed as humanly as possible. So now the hot potato is in the City of Miami's hand. I have asked that the PEAFOWL item be placed on the agenda for as soon as possible and co -sponsored by both Mayor Suarez and Commissioner Russell. I need each of you to flood their offices asking for our amendments to the existing code. Mr. Sarnoff has already looked at the amendments which I have in this attachment and he has no problem endorsing them, since he is the one many years ago that instituted the Bird Sanctuary in the Grove. We all have our stories of damages on his/her property, being attacked by, stepping in, washing off cars, front steps, and sidewalks the poop there of. Now is the time that we do not take no for an answer. We want this on the City Commission AGENDA as soon as possible. If we are not on the agenda, we should invade the chambers quietly with T-shirts (VERY COLORFUL) to bring attention our plight. Submitted into the public record fqr ite (s) j\, L. on 1,/ 15J1. w. City Clerk The last and final item is the enforcement of the "NO FEED LAW' of the peacocks. Tickets need to be written on these violators. Presently, this law has no teeth. Well it is high time that the city "Get some Teeth" in its law. Thank you all very much for your time and if you have friends that would like to join in our movement, please send me their emails. Misery loves company!!! Have a GREAT evening, Nancy Benouaich, President Bay Heights Improvement Assoc. cell: 305-793-8695 Submitted into the public record for ite (s) j� L on Z/ 1i5/ OL . City Clerk November 14, 2018 TO: Cynthia Seymour FROM: Nancy Benouaich, President Bay Heights Improvement Assoc. It was an extreme pleasure meeting with you yesterday and I greatly appreciated your time. We discussed future needs and actions in Bay Heights, as well as Coconut Grove in general. Attached, you will find the information I had in my file regarding the number one problem for our community, that being the excessive peafowl population. Please let me know if there is any thing else I can do to partner with you to have the City of Miami code amended. Thank you again for your time. Sincerely, Nancy E. Benouaich Cell: 305-793-8695 6/8/2018 ) From: Derrick Wenger <derrickwenger@snet.net> To: Nancy Benouaich <nebmiami@aol.com> Subject: Re: Peacock Fighters Annonymous of 2018 Date: Thu, Jun 7, 2018 4:52 pm Re: Peacock Fighters Annonymous of 2018 heard Redlands might take the peacocks. Can't remember the source. On Thursday, June 7, 2018 4:46 PM, Nancy Benouaich <nebmiami@aol.com> wrote: Good Afternoon Everyone, ,WttioA/1 0-111/' Submitted into the public record fp r it m(s) L. on Z/ 1 j / j fj . City Clerk I would first like to introduce myself to you. My name is Nancy Benouaich and I am president of the Bay Heights Improvement Assoc. If you are wondering how you received this email, I have to tell you that one of your members forwarded your information in the hopes that we can combine forces to have the City of Miami take action to reduce the population of peafowl. In all my emails, I have attached the emails of my Bay Heights neighbors showing the commissioner's office just how many are reading their replies. It's amazing how much more respect you are shown when you are not a lone wolf crying in the wilderness. LOL For this reason, I have emailed you today in hopes that we can together solve this problem. The last email I received yesterday was to ask me where the peafowl could be relocated to. So, I need your help. We need each of you to make calls and find out: 1. Who will help to catch and transport the birds as humanly as possible. 2. What parties will be thrilled to take the birds as well as the number wanted. I have had many emails going back and forth with Commissioner Russell's office for the last few days. It all began after I had a meeting with the Chief of Staff of Mayor Suarez. I was asked to talk to Commissioner Russell and see if he would co-sponsor my amendments to the city code the reason being that we are in his district. Attached, you will find the City of Miami Code regarding birds. Russell's office tried to pass me off on to the county but City Attorney, Rachael Dooley had already received a letter from Florida Fish and Wildlife stating that peafowl is not native to Florida and therefore, they have no authority over this bird. She is now researching the county code that she will forward to me. asap According to my information last year regarding animals in the county, that if a bird or animal becomes a nuisance to your property, you have that right to have it removed as humanly as possible. So now the hot potato is in the City of Miami's hand. I have asked that the PEAFOWL item be placed on the agenda for June 14th, co -sponsored by both Mayor Suarez and Commissioner Russell. I need each of you to flood their offices asking for our amendments to the existing code. Mr. Sarnoff has already looked at the amendments I have included in this attachment and has no problem endorsing them since he is the one many, many years ago instituted the Bird Sanctuary in the Grove. We all have our stories of damages, being attacked by, and stepping in the poop there of. Now is the time that we do not take no for an answer. We want this on the AGENDA June 14th. If we are not on the agenda, we should invade the chambers quietly with T-shirts (VERY COLORFUL) to bring attention our plight. The last and final item is the enforcement of the "NO FEED LAW" of the peacocks. Tickets need to be written on these violators. Presently, this law has no teeth. Well it is high time that we "Get some Teeth", in their law. https://mail.aol.com/webmail-std/en-us/PrintMessage 1/2 Submitted into the public record f9r ite (s) p T\ L. on Z/ I a/jj . City Clerk October 2, 2019 I had a meeting with Cynthia Symore and Danny Hernandez in her office. Ken Russell was next door and he heard that I was upset that they had not found a relocation site for the birds. I told him I'm fed up with this subject and so are my neighbors. He acknowledged that if he didn't do something to help us, that Bay Heights would not vote for him on Nov. 5th At an earlier meeting in September, I had notified his staff, and others present that I was willing to call the Miami Herald and the TV stations to come in and see our over population of peacocks before the election, so obviously the word got back to him.